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GeekNights 071010 - The Walking Dead
Tonight on GeekNights, we review The Walking Dead. In the news, Dark horse gives up on the monthlies, and ADV realigns.
Scott's Thing - Triumph
Rym's Thing - Richard Garriott
Scott's Thing - Triumph
Rym's Thing - Richard Garriott
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This link isn't working and I have no idea what you wanted it linked to.
The zombie story is pretty unappealing, all the movies and any stories are pretty crap because they're always predictable and/or stupid.
I don't know if you're open to suggestion or not but here are a few things I liked over the past year - "The Losers", published by Vertigo, finite story and run. "Black Summer" by Warren Ellis although this is still starting out and has the hero type thing but completely reversed however it's only 3 issues in so "Planetary" by Warren Ellis published via Wildstorm.
Rym's Thing -Richard Garriott
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2326-Zero-Punctuation-Tabula-Rasa
For some reason it isn't letting me hyperlink it. I was actually going to post this in the thing of the day thread. The Zero Punctuation reviews are awesome! I can't say that I dislike any of them.
The one good thing about that time was that only Spiderman, Superman, and Batman had more than one monthly, and none of them were worth reading. If you read Uncanny X-Men, you had ALL the X-Men story. If you read Fantastic Four, you had ALL the Fantastic Four story, and so on.
I started noticing that some comics were regularly collecting themselves into trades about four years ago. Even then, it was hard to stop buying monthlies, because there was no promise that the collections would keep going. Also, I don't think every comic is collected into a trade. So I still buy monthly issues every now and then just to see what's happening. I think another thing that still appeals to comic people about the monthlies is that back issue trades aren't being valued as much as back issue, rare comics. That is, I don't see or hear of anyone trying to buy or sell a trade of Spiderman the way someone would try to buy or sell Amazing Fantasy # 15.
Another reason I haven't bought monthlies in a long time is those silly cross over events like 52, House of M, and Civil Wars. Those things have driven me further away from comics than I have been in years.
Here's a really great thing about the trades - many libraries carry them. I read the entire Sandman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Invincible, and Lucifer series from trades I borrowed from the library.
Also, anyone who considers financial gains when buying comics is beyond stupid. Buying entertainment goods for the purposes of investment is possibly one of the worst economic decisions you could make. People buying comics to collect, as opposed to read, are what is killing comics.
Up until about four years ago, I thought of trades as being something a little more special than a simple collection of monthlies, mostly because I still had a kind of memory of graphic novels being special and rare, like The Death of Captain Marvel or New Mutants.
You might have a poor opinion of people collecting monthlies for value. I don't do it myself, but I know that many people do. I'm just saying I think that the people who do the collecting don't find the collection value to be as present in the trades.
There was also an insanely awesome card game put out that is impossible to find and often costs above $60 if you can find it used.
You should check out his other vids, his Bioshock one is rather good.
The Nordic countries are near the top of the list of comic reading countries, but because of low population it is still hard to sell enough to make it profitable, and comics tend to come and go. I believe Spiderman has been running almost continually since the late 60's or early 70's (I bought everything in the 80's). The major releases usually make their way over here, but lately I have only noticed Spiderman and X-Men.
The comics are customized for the Norwegian marked. They are translated to Norwegian, and nowadays the issues are usually 84 pages without ads, and contains two or three parallel stories from the different Marvel releases. Sometimes they run a series of a different underwear pervert as one of the stories. I guess they pick the best and most relevant stories and put them out on the Norwegian marked approximately a year after the American release. Spiderman has 10 issues a year and cost ~$7.40. Nerds can get the American releases fairly easy and rapidly if they want.
By the way, there have been some zombie movies based in prisons. I saw a couple, but they were total low budget crap.
The characters are constantly being stalked by zombies; most of the people they start out with or eventually meet get killed, and they are consistently betraying each other out of fear, anger, lust, or survival. Up to the point I've read, most of the survivors have killed countless undead, and a significant portion of the survivors have killed living human beings.
The characters are psychologically degrading to the point where they are acting solely out of instinct - some more than others. See Freud's death instinct and compare that with the way Frank Grimes acts. He threatens to beat a convicted killer twice his size to death and confronts him unarmed and alone, giving him a chance to retaliate. He enrages a friend - who is in an emotionally unstable state and also twice his size - and incites him into beating him into unconsciousness.
So, yes, the characters are getting crazier and making dumber decisions, but in the context of the story, I think it makes perfect sense.
It occurs to me: Why are there no zombie horses, dogs, or cats?
Coupled with a letdown finale, it really soured me on the direction the show was going in. Is TV-version Shane's slow descent into craziness making him more understandable, and diluting his impact versus fast crazy spiral shane? Also, knowing the science behind the zombies kinda kills the whole farmhouse plot, which was pretty awesome.