![]() ![]() #169-193: Lines We Cross New World Order The Rotten Core Rest in Peace #145-168: No Turning Back Call to Arms The Whisperer War A Certain Doom #121-144: All-Out War, Part Two A New Beginning Whispers into Screams Life and Death #97-120: Something to Fear What Comes After March to War All-Out War, Part One #73-96: Too Far Gone No Way Out We Find Ourselves A Larger World #49-72: Here We Remain What We Become Fear the Hunters Life Among Them #25-48: The Best Defense This Sorrowful Life The Calm Before Made to Suffer #1-24: Days Gone Bye Miles Behind Us Safety Behind Bars The Heart's Desire Each six-issue arc has its own title this first one is “Days Gone Bye.” As in, "bye-bye." I don’t intend to do all 193 issues in separate entries after we get going, it will be one six issue chunk at a time, which is how this series was originally collected after monthly publication. You’ll notice the changeover when a lot more Tothian black enters the page design. ![]() Moore wasn’t able to keep up with the demands of monthly publication, so he turns the art reins over to Charlie Adlard after six issues. He and Kirkman have known each other since second grade. Kirkman is from Cynthiana, Kentucky, where our story begins. After beginning this project, he was chagrined when the 2002 film “28 Days Later” also began with a comatose hospital patient awakening to find the world overrun with zombies. At one point Kirkman pursued rights to write a series based on the film but was convinced he should just write his own zombie story instead, to retain creative rights. George Romero’s 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” inspired this series. Why had the police armory not been raided by the other cops, or by desperate and resourceful citizens? Would there really have been a functional elevator at the hospital 28 days later? How many days did Rick go untended in a hospital bed? IV bags have to be changed every few hours, and IV sites have to be moved every few days, or clots and infections set in. My Two Cents: Kirkman learned a lot in the process of writing 193 issues of this story, and it’s easy to nitpick the early issues. (They wanted to stay he didn't abandon them.) He requisitions a car and ammunition from the police station and drives off toward Atlanta, leaving Morgan and Duane behind. A surviving neighbor, Morgan, explains that a zombie apocalypse struck several weeks ago, and everyone was instructed to go to the big cities like Atlanta. He finds a bike, finds his house empty, his family gone. Now he’s patched up but woozy on his feet. He took a chest wound in a shootout with a lowlife. The story: Small town policeman Rick Grimes awakens in a hospital bed. His neighbor Morgan Jones, and Morgan’s son Duane. With this question answered by series creator Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead fans can now rest assured that Rick wasn’t some secret trigger-happy ‘badass’ looking for an excuse to cut loose, he was a good man who did what he could to maintain his humanity in a world that had quite literally gone to hell.Creative Team: Robert Kirkman writing. It isn’t about how horrible people are once they’re given the chance, it’s about how even the best people are forced to do horrible things to protect themselves and the ones they love, yet even in the face of possibly unforgivable actions, they still don’t lose themselves or give up hope. Sure, there are people like the Governor or Negan who were clearly internalizing some pent-up aggression that they were happy to unleash when society collapsed, but that’s not what the series is about. At its core, The Walking Dead is about who people are and what they’re forced to become in a time of crisis. This definitive answer to a burning fan question is incredibly interesting, as it not only answers the question itself, but also speaks to the entire point of the series. The potential was obviously there, but I don’t think it existed until it needed to. Do you think Rick ever had that no mad hardened version in himself hidden away even before the apocalypse ready to be triggered? ![]()
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