Robert Kirkman, �The Walking Dead� (Multiple volumes)
- �The Best Defense: Volume 5� (Started July 23 � Finished July 23, 2007; 136 pages)
- �This Sorrowful Life: Volume 6� (Started July 24 � Finished July 24, 2007; 144 pages)
OK, quick poll � how many of you knew that if you take a bunch of eggs, put them in a pan, set the heat to boil and then fall asleep because you�ve been working 12 to 20 hours each day, that the eggs, after having all the water boil away, will eventually explode?
Nobody? Don�t feel bad. I just figured this out a little while ago. I woke up thinking Hawaii was having a sequel to Pearl Harbor.
Anybody out there seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 back from the 80s? �Napalm! Nam flashback! Nam flashback!�
That was me.
There�s a revelatory scene in this series, one basically tying in soap opera elements and adding zombies, where the harried leader of a rag tag group of humans trying to survive in a world taken over by the undead points at the zombies milling about outside. �All along, we�ve been calling them the walking dead,� he shouts, (or something like that) with random words in bold for emphasis in typical comic book fashion. �Don�t you get it? We are the walking dead!�
I can relate.
