Walking dead days gone bye5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() A prime example of how restrictive genre conventions can be. Warning, I now want to drivel a bit about the problems I have with the long running of not just this series, but many famous trademarks/franchises in general.ġ93 comic books and 11 seasons (3 watched 10 years ago) of The Walking Dead show that general fiction, horror, and thriller have a big problem compared with big sci fi and fantasy series, which can play with close to all tropes and genres and mix whatever imaginable. That´s why it´s often spiced with the philosophy of groups or individuals to fuel some extra character focused conflict. So it´s mostly just superficial because the complex systems criticized in other genres don´t exist here anymore and it´s more anarchy, tribalism, and barter than macroeconomicing the heck out of Friedman and Keynes. ![]() Political, economic, and ideological content can be put in the armored zombie cracking truck engineīut, it can´t get as complex as in satires or sci-fi, because most of it is just at a steampunk level with some left high tech that makes the owners the big wigs. First, as small and later growing groups, until the big „let´s rebuild/build a better society/ establish a terrible dictatorship, etc.“ instinct kicks in and gives it a bit more meta complexity because now ![]() It´s not really that much about secret special recipes for preparing brains, but about how people from different socioeconomic backgrounds develop after the apocalypse. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son.Įdition MSRP: $9⁹⁹ US (ISBN 978-1-58240-672-5)ĭeath often comes with felt eternity, especially in long running series like this one, Resident evil, and similar stuffĮstablishing backstories to prepare future conflicts A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? ![]()
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