Writer/Creator/Letterer: Robert Kirkman
Penciler/Inker/Grey Tones: Tony Moore
Additional Grey Tones: Cliff Rathburn

Zombies, zombies everywhere!

What if this were true? How would we all cope? And is the appeal of zombie stories the fact that as humans are slightly fascinated with the thought that our very way of life, our civilization as we know it, can all come crashing down if a few people try and eat each other?

I was reading Walking Dead: Days Gone By, and the story made me wonder if we’re so interested in the idea of zombies simply because we are astonished by the idea that everything around us can simply go into chaos in a very limited amount of time. It’s kind of like our sick fascination with Armageddon; the idea that everything you’ve worked so hard for: your house, your job, your relationship and all your crap that you’ve acquired over the years…it’s all capable of completely crumbling and ultimately not mattering if one thing goes awry. That’s a scary thought.

In the comic, one character is obsessed with the idea that the government will eventually get their shit together and save them all from the zombie apocalypse. Of course everyone else secretly hopes this is the case but even the reader knows they’re screwed. And that’s more scary than the zombies really. If everything and everyone you’ve ever known and loved were suddenly negated due to a few walking parasites, that’s really upsetting. It would be enough not to make you want to go on.

But then again, just because you’d no longer get a hot shower, or a good meal at a fine restaurant, or even just to watch your favorite TV show again…at least you’d get to mess up some zombie ass.