Robert Kirkman in the past has been imposed in the landscape of American comics and the world as one of the most innovative writers of the last ten years. In fact, if the nineties were the springboard of a British gentleman by the name of Garth Ennis, the double-zero years to the day of the placid Kirkman, exactly ten years ago this young man '81 class debut in the world of comics the delirious Battle Pope, the story of a violent alcoholic and Pope, from his self-Funk-O-Tron together with his friend Tony Moore. The guy is promising, so the Image Comics puts him under contract: Kirkman answered the call with his dazzling Invincible, which continues today, who manages the difficult task of giving new life to the genre superomistico. In the same year, 2003, Kirkman signature, again paired with Moore (and later with Charlie Adlard), The Walking Dead. If Invincible with proves to be an inspired writer, with the saga of Rick Grimes and Associates, is proving to be among the handful of writers to be delivered to the story. In his intenaioni, the writer wanted to create "a story of zombies that never end," tired of the cinematic tradition that says only uno stralcio della vita dei protagonisti dei film di zombie. Non sai mai come andrà a finire, o cosa succederà dopo. Con Walking Dead il problema non si pone. Raccontare la trama di questa serie è utile tanto quanto mangiarsi un cotechino per dimagrire: dire che si tratti di fumetto solo sugli zombie equivale affermare che Lost sia una serie solo di fantascienza (Remember. Let go.Move On.). C’è molto di più: Rick Grimes, protagonista della serie, cade in coma e tre settimane più tardi, al suo risveglio, il mondo per come lo knew him, and the rest of humanity, no longer exists. Around him only death and desolation. And zombies. Looking for other survivors heads to Atlanta, only to discover that even in large cities the situation is the same chance encounter with Glenn will take him to meet with a group of survivors, including his wife, his son and his best friend. Soon the team tries to make his new life with the spirit of one who is lost in the woods for a night, you live the thrill of adventure but we know that the adventure is just that and within a day things back to normal. But no. There is no army that enters celebrating in the city, there is no helicopter to get us out of civil protection from the rain and mud.
of Walking Dead This is a parable of the company and how the first man in his loneliness and then in the middle of the pack when faced with the intractable. The everyday life suddenly turns into a nightmare blind, where to start from scratch, rather, from less than zero. In a world upside down we must learn to survive, to take control of their lives and become the captain of his soul (and perhaps that of others), sometimes realizing that as soon as possible life was a passing of a day in a row to another. Zombies, the stray metaphoric rise to the role of a global crisis went unnoticed until it explodes in his hands, when it is too late: the zombie is not like the vampire, a single entity able to make so bad, but still single. No, zombies are a mass, a wave, one giant stain that you can not wash away even rubbing the skin off. The zombie is scary as that tramp that you are under the house and does not want to go: Do \u200b\u200bnot look at him and stay away because you're afraid of becoming like him one day, if not worse. And then barrel down and naked, in the hope that his disease is not infectious even you or your loved ones. Along the course of events the only, bright lighting, Rick Grimes about himself and his fellow beats us face the truth: the living dead are not the other, the zombies, no. They are the same. The survivors live knowing that nothing will save them, which have survived if today, tomorrow may not be the same: they live in waiting one day, near or far, to become part of that wave are also sick of flesh gear and spongy guts. But not enough. Not even enough to know that among those who remain, there are those who know themselves to be more evil zombie (the scene of the rape of Mishonne the hands of Governor is one of the most sadistic sequences and stylistically better dramatized the last ten years). So why rejoice in finding a refuge and a new home in a prison met on the road? Where is the sense in that? Instinct of survival, of course. But it is hope that keeps burning the humanity of the protagonists of Walking Dead: hope we can even return to a semblance of normality, enjoying the small daily miracles, such as take a shower, change clothes, even listen to music. The hope, sometimes naive, sometimes so close instead of seeing a future in front of him: no matter what will be, the important thing is to fight to conquer. Even if it were only for one more day.
PS In Italy the series is published by the excellent Balances with that thanks to the success of the Walking Dead has an entire section devoted to the theme posting zombiesco also fragile and Raise the Dead. In America in October, and November in Italy, will be released on the AMC channel from the TV series is just Walking Dead: The preconditions are all there, and all with great depth. Frank Darabont and the same Kirkman (who has since become one of the members of the Image) as producers and writers, the first he directed also the first of six one-hour episodes that complete the first series (filming the second season , already confirmed, will take place in February next year). The team of writers and directors include big names in the world of television, many of whom come from excellent series like The Shield, Dexter and Breaking Bad.
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