The Walking Dead, Book 7: The Calm Before
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Lori’s pregnancy has come to term, and the birth is near. After everything they’ve been through, nothing can prepare Rick and the additional survivors for what they are about to experience. A major turning point in the series is reached.
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I like this series, I have been writing to HBO and trying to get them to turn it in a series.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Another in a long line of zombie books and adventures. Well written and illustrated but nothing to really cheer about.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Most of the folks here already know that The Walking Dead saga is a compilation of tales by Robert Kirkman that expand on the tale that is well know to any zombie movie fan. The main tale. The one ongoing in earnest by George Romero in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead [and was later remade in 1990 (the version that I prefer) by Tom Savini (with Romero oversight)].
The Walking Dead Volume 7 continues the tale of ex- Normal-World Police Officer Rick Grimes and persons that he comes in contact with in a New World…a world that has been over-run by zombies.
Volume 7 starts about 9+ months after The Walking Dead epidemic ongoing (The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye), and all of the characters are now reluctantly beginning to accept that their home is not the only thing that’s new. Their entire being is new: New families. New friends. New daily routines. New rules to live by. No cable TV. No grocery stores. No air conditioning.
New World.
And venturing out into The New World is treacherous. The confines and security provided by the characters’ home (customary in Volume 3) are less than safe. But outside the gates await incomprehensible chaos and horror; hordes of the undead, along with additional survivors (see Volumes 5 and 6) in desperate situations that do the unthinkable to stay alive (or entertained).
Volume 7, like Volume 6, is much less about zombies and more about what happens to society, its morals, laws and standards when government is lost and the planet becomes mostly uninhabitable. There’s real, heartfelt emotion in The Walking Dead series combined with believable scenarios…not terrible for a comic book.
The volume releases of The Walking Dead are like reading a screenplay with storyboards of a version of Night of the Living Dead that started simultaneously, but in a different part of the country (much like George Romero’s late 2007 relief, Diary of the Dead). Yes, The Walking Dead is kind of a rip-off of a tale (tales) already told, but the key is that it’s done very very well. The zombies are right to the original Romero creation: slow and stupid as opposed to the 28 Days/Weeks Later (28 Weeks Later / 28 Days Later) or 2004 re-establish of Dawn of the Dead quick and thinking zombies.
Each Walking Dead volume only takes about an hour to get all the way through, and they place you wanting more. And they seem to keep coming; The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made To Suffer is due in early 2008.
Volumes 1 – 7 are all available individually. A hard take in combination of Volumes 1 & 2 is out (The Walking Dead Book 1) and a hard take in combination of Volumes 3 & 4 also came out this year (The Walking Dead, Book 2). The Walking Dead Book 3 (Volumes 5 & 6) is listed on Amazon for a late 2007 relief as of this writing.
So anyone in need of a very well done zombie fix that you don’t place into your DVD player should absolutely get down with The Walking Dead sickness. Add it to your cart, but be sure to start with volume 1 and read them chronologically.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
We watch action movies for the point sequences, the excitement, the special effects, and perhaps the catchy phrases the hero spews out. Most of the time when we watch horror movies it is the anticipation of the erect up, the dread, and the sudden, highly anticipated and grim results that lure us in.
The Walking Dead, for me, has been as much about the lure as it has been about the dramatic results that we get throughout the storyline. We are not so much drawn in just because we know that there will be some sort of intense flurry of action, but because we are consumed by the human element here. There is a part of me that can honestly wish that Rick and company could just go on existing, leading their lives, safely and out of harms way. It is only part though, because despite the desire to see these characters that I have grown attached to live and thrive regardless of the nightmares that surround them there is still the slow burn of anticipation, permanently, for what is yet to come, including the raw, visceral, violence. The Cool Before may make this chapter appear, on the surface, to be just a lead in to another grander chapter in this saga, but the silent moments like the one showed in this segment work well because we get to dive even deeper into each character’s psychy. We can see how intolerably hard it has become for some to just continue extant while others cling to hope and continue to form more attachments to persons around them. It is here that we grow to know them as human beings much better–tortured and yet hopeful human beings.
I do look forwards to the next chapter, which promises to be bursting with the excitment; the violence that provides the frission and the sizzle, but I also really delight in the twists and turns that Robert Kirkman can present to us in these far more devious parts of his grand epic. The combination of both fundamentals makes this tale hard to beat.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this for my son, he has all the additional books in this series. This is what he said: Like all the additional books of the Walking Dead this was fantastic. I can’t wait for the next to come out
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5