Walking Dead comics
I feel bad that I never blog. But I never have time to do it. I'm too busy working or thinking about work or playing with the dog or watching TV. Or, most recently, reading The Walking Dead comic books. Not sure if comic books are supposed to be italicized or if I'm actually supposed to call them graphic novels or not. Don't care.
Yes, I feel crappy that when I finally get into comic books it's like the most common and popular comic book - my geek genes are unhappy about that. However, I am loving it. The only beef I have with the writers/drawers/whatever is the PC term/colorist/grey scaler - is that they draw kids horribly. They just look like tiny adults, so it's creepy. Like when you go to an art museum and you realize the painter has never seen a baby before because it just looks like a midget. Uh oh, here I go with the PC terms again. Please insert the least offensive term.
I think the changes from the comics to the TV show are fine, but some don't really make any sense. I guess they go with what focus groups think and everything, but Tyreese doesn't show up until WAY later and there are a lot of characters that seem to be created just for the show. It's shocking that Daryl and Merle didn't exist AT ALL in the comic but stupid Andrea was there from the beginning. Ugh. And where's Sasha? If I have Tyreese early in the comic book, where's Sasha? I can't believe that character was created just for the show because she's terrible and hard to look at.
The thing that makes me the happiest is the things I find implausible or overly dramatic in the show are actually not in the comics at all. For example, in the show, Rick doesn't wait for Morgan to go to Atlanta and gives him a walkie talkie so they can keep in touch. In the comic, there's no discussion of Morgan coming to Atlanta with Rick and there's nothing about stupid walkie talkies that obviously wouldn't work that far away. I mean seriously, a walkie talkie is MAYBE good for 100 feet. Stupid stupid.
I'm been buying the softcover volumes of the comic, and the internet tells me each volume has six comics in each. I'm almost done with volume 3 and they're already at the prison. I'm hoping Terminus and the governor are both in the comics, and of course I am majorly excited for the introduction of Neegan. Can't wait!! Jeffrey Dean Morgan rocks.
Yes, I feel crappy that when I finally get into comic books it's like the most common and popular comic book - my geek genes are unhappy about that. However, I am loving it. The only beef I have with the writers/drawers/whatever is the PC term/colorist/grey scaler - is that they draw kids horribly. They just look like tiny adults, so it's creepy. Like when you go to an art museum and you realize the painter has never seen a baby before because it just looks like a midget. Uh oh, here I go with the PC terms again. Please insert the least offensive term.
I think the changes from the comics to the TV show are fine, but some don't really make any sense. I guess they go with what focus groups think and everything, but Tyreese doesn't show up until WAY later and there are a lot of characters that seem to be created just for the show. It's shocking that Daryl and Merle didn't exist AT ALL in the comic but stupid Andrea was there from the beginning. Ugh. And where's Sasha? If I have Tyreese early in the comic book, where's Sasha? I can't believe that character was created just for the show because she's terrible and hard to look at.
The thing that makes me the happiest is the things I find implausible or overly dramatic in the show are actually not in the comics at all. For example, in the show, Rick doesn't wait for Morgan to go to Atlanta and gives him a walkie talkie so they can keep in touch. In the comic, there's no discussion of Morgan coming to Atlanta with Rick and there's nothing about stupid walkie talkies that obviously wouldn't work that far away. I mean seriously, a walkie talkie is MAYBE good for 100 feet. Stupid stupid.
I'm been buying the softcover volumes of the comic, and the internet tells me each volume has six comics in each. I'm almost done with volume 3 and they're already at the prison. I'm hoping Terminus and the governor are both in the comics, and of course I am majorly excited for the introduction of Neegan. Can't wait!! Jeffrey Dean Morgan rocks.
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