Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Death often comes with felt eternity, especially in long running series like this one, Resident evil, and similar stuff

Establishing backstories to prepare future conflicts
It´s not really that much about secret special recipes for preparing brains, but about how people from different socioeconomic backgrounds develop after the apocalypse. First, as small and later growing groups, until the big „let´s rebuild/build a better society/ establish a terrible dictatorship, etc.“ instinct kicks in and gives it a bit more meta complexity because now

Political, economic, and ideological content can be put in the armored zombie cracking truck engine
But, it can´t get as complex as in satires or sci-fi, because most of it is just at a steampunk level with some left high tech that makes the owners the big wigs. So it´s mostly just superficial because the complex systems criticized in other genres don´t exist here anymore and it´s more anarchy, tribalism, and barter than macroeconomicing the heck out of Friedman and Keynes. That´s why it´s often spiced with the philosophy of groups or individuals to fuel some extra character focused conflict.

Warning, I now want to drivel a bit about the problems I have with the long running of not just this series, but many famous trademarks/franchises in general.
193 comic books and 11 seasons (3 watched 10 years ago) of The Walking Dead show that general fiction, horror, and thriller have a big problem compared with big sci fi and fantasy series, which can play with close to all tropes and genres and mix whatever imaginable. A prime example of how restrictive genre conventions can be.

Seriously, I wonder how this would have evolved and how big it would have become without the TV series.
As so often, different fandoms clash and quarrel, even playing with the option of full fandom wars. It of course doesn´t have to end so disastrously as with Game of Thrones, although one can see the problem and conflict potential by the sheer loads of both graphic novels and seasons that just can´t permanently satisfy each individual post apocalyptic wet dream.

This happens later in the series: First growing a beard, then again losing it in redundancy and repetition
I love everything zombie, movies, novels, games, but there is, as said, a big problem with the limitation of this setting. There can´t be that much science fantasy in it, because many readers expect it to be more realistic survival, which leads to the suspension of disbelief backlash problem, looking at you, Resident evil with fantasy and magic attempts. Shivers. It´s just not possible to endlessly produce new, fresh, and especially credible plots with the always similar storylines, instead, it goes towards necromantic human flesh made soap opera some people might love, because I can luckily still detect my

Possible subjective taste problem
Just maybe (bloody lie!) I am too plot, action, meta, and complex world building prone to fully enjoy too much character focused art and writing. I am absolutely not sure about my ability to assess characterization, because I don´t really care about that as long as the story is awesome. So maybe The Walking Corpses are better than I can perceive, although I am still absolutely not sure about how far to read this series regarding the limited options, especially compared to many other series that have aliens and dwarfs in the mix.

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