the walking dead days gone bye robert kirkman

I also love the clarity of his artwork there is never a point in this book where I felt confused as to what I was seeing. Tony Moore manages to capture a brilliant level of detail and expression in every frame of this volume. He also isn’t afraid to explore extremely dark themes and sadly doesn’t always do so with the most subtlety or grace, resulting in some tactless excess and some poorly handled choices. Kirkman does somewhat lean on shock value to keep readers engaged in this book, which is not always something that I am a huge fan of.

This was also one of the first comic books I read, where I really felt the constantly present threat that the characters had to live with on a daily basis and it honestly does feel like no character is ever truly safe. Robert Kirkman is brilliant at building his universe and really making his characters and settings feel fleshed out.

This idea has been parroted many times since because it was an awesome idea to begin with.īeyond the initial innovative idea though, the writing has to be there to back it up. Unfortunately, we have been somewhat bombarded with zombie media to the point of parody since this book’s debut and the market has become extremely saturated in the years since it released, but credit is still due to the story that started it all. Although this has become somewhat of a trope over recent years, reading The Walking Dead was the first time that I saw the concept of ‘fight the dead, fear the living,’ actually realised and at the time I thought that it was fantastically original and refreshing. Where most other zombie media focuses on the actual zombies and monsters killing human characters, The Walking Dead instead chooses to focus on the human relationships within the group of survivors that we follow. The Walking Dead tells the story of Rick Grimes an Atlanta sheriff who gets flung headfirst into the zombie apocalypse, which throws an overwhelming amount of un-dead corpses his way and exposes the brutality required to survive this harsh new world. The Walking Dead comic recently came to an end, so getting to go back and review Days Gone Bye, – the first volume in the series, – was an opportune chance to revisit how this pop culture juggernaut came about. Review – The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye

The walking dead days gone bye robert kirkman