Redo: The Walking Dead

            Even though I wrote a whole lot on the last submission for the Walking Dead I wanted to revisit it because I had read the next graphic novel and watched the TV series that has recently come out. Needless to say I thought it was absolutely AMAZING. The second graphic novel in the series picks up right after the first novel and continues all the same, it holds the same style and plot as I thought it was going to but with some major twists and turns. I was hoping for another major suspenseful ending but was a little let down when it ended in a kind of positive note. Where Rick and the rest of the group have seemingly found their new 'home' in a world run by the dead. In the middle of the story Rick and Lori's little boy Carl gets accidentally shot by Otis, a man that lives in a farm a few miles down from where the group stopped. Most of this volume is based around Carl being shot and the trials and craziness that goes on while he slips in and out from life. The farm they end up on with Carl getting worked on, they find out that the main guy is holding the walkers in his barn, he feels like these walkers are people who are just sick. Then things get complicated when the whole group finds this out.
              The TV series on the other hand takes a different route from the graphic novel. Even though it is based off of the graphic novel and most of the first season follows the novels it takes a very different turn. It is mainly different to me in the way the characters are portrayed. In the novel you feel more for the humans and their trials, the things that go wrong with them you can really connect with and feel you would or would not do the same in similar situations. Where the AMC series some of the time you feel bad for the zombies and what has happened to them, the director gave them a little more emotion that almost seems to put you in the zombies shoes sometimes. The unfairness and the bitterness of how it would feel if this situation really happened would be astounding. The way they portray the actual characters fits nicely along with the graphic novel but the series brings in different characters that are not in the novel. My favorite character, the redneck with the crossbow, is not in the graphic novel at all. Though he brings a very nice difference in the TV series that makes you wish he was almost in the novel.
               The second season compared to the second novel is similar and different. The graphic novels plot line I think is easier and less boring to get through. When Carl gets shot in the graphic novel the recovery is swift and easy to get through. In the series its lengthy and not really focused on a whole lot because they are too busy finding one of the groups daughters that has gotten lost in one of the first episodes. I think that was a major flaw in the second seasons plot. It was the whole series! Just went on and on, so redundant and a little over done. Like we get it, she's more than likely bitten and a zombie, but they just drag it out until the last episode. The last episode of that series left me hanging as much as the first graphic novel volume did. Which was one of the best parts.
               Needless to say, I really wanted to discuss and go over my thoughts comparing and contrasting the series and the first two novels. I think it was a great ending to a good semester in this class and I am looking forward to reading more of the graphic novels and really looking forward to the continuation of the second season in February. I think the Walking Dead graphic novels is one of the best that I have encountered yet. The amazing ink work and simple ink washes really gets you into it and the easy flow of type panel by panel. Just an all around amazing piece of work. I hope I went into enough detail about this for the rewrite. Thought it would be appropriate do to something I am passionate about. Zombies.

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