re: The Walking Dead

Chuck Klosterman on Zombies, from today's NYT:
My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead

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What makes that measured amplification curious is the inherent limitations of the zombie itself: You can’t add much depth to a creature who can’t talk, doesn’t think and whose only motive is the consumption of flesh. You can’t humanize a zombie, unless you make it less zombie-esque. There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies— that’s pretty much the spectrum of zombie diversity. It’s not that zombies are changing to fit the world’s condition; it’s that the condition of the world seems more like a zombie offensive. Something about zombies is becoming more intriguing to us. And I think I know what that something is.

Zombies are just so easy to kill.

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No more hijacks I promise.

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Dude that's no problem at all. Thanks for your service.

Knowing this I think I would want to be on you zombie team. Only problem is I live in Georgia. When the zombie apocalypse comes down I am heading to the east coast. There is no way in hell I'm going through Atl.

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timdallinger from the help board did it last night.

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Tim does excellent work. Inspires me to fark, but I am not a patch on his arse. He is very kind to take the time to do the work he does for people. It becomes very time consuming. The sig is pretty sweet except for the Cowgirl, lol. I whipped out Sheriff Rick vector for my avatar the other night. It was inspired by Tim's PP7 vector he did earlier in the year. I screwed with it for a few hours. I kept scrapping it and starting over.

I know I said I wouldn't frick with torrents, but I downloaded 1-49 last night and read them today.

Holy shite, there's so much I can't wait to see play out on TV.

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i was thinking Houston would be absolutely terrible in a z sitch. Huge population center, worst sprawl in the country, Katrina evacs, and Mexicans z's all over

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wonder if the zombies who ate the mexicans got the screaming shits afterwords?

Dang! On a whim, I watched the first 4 episodes tonight.... and - This thread has more sub-plots than the show!

That being said... I am equally struck by by the moments of pure humanity in the midst of mayhem I have encountered reading the last few pages as I was watching this show.

to you all.

to this show.

and to those who have made it back from places most will never go.

Welcome abourd troubl Meatloaf will be happy to have another female in the thread

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I was beginning to think you were only going to participate in the Fringe thread.

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I finally got a couple days off in a row and found some time to expand my horizons.

26 hours. Yeah i am having withdrawals.

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where are you guys downloading the comics from?

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what he said. hints please.

I just read through comic book 75. The show will have to be on for a VERY long time to catch up, but dang, there have been about 4 story arcs, many deaths, many new friends, many new locales, etc. The opportunities are obviously endless for this show, and so it seems for the comic book too.
I would really just search on google for The Walking Dead comic books and downloadable. Should be pretty easy
If you like the show, I guarantee you'll love the books, they're fast paced, always have zombies, and great story lines. Sure the dialogue isn't amazing, but it's better than George Lucas