The Walking Dead Series on AMC

This October one of the best zombie stories to be brought to the public is coming to the small screen and here's the trailer The Walking Dead Comic-con trailer. The Walking Dead debuted as a black and white comic in 2003 with 75 issues of wonderful zombie greatness. Image comics has also released a variety of collections with anywhere from 12 issues in one book to 48 issues in one very large book for easy consumption by the masses.
The story of The Walking Dead centers around Rick Grimes, a small town police officer who during a regular non-undead shootout is put into a coma for just long enough for the world to be overrun with flesh eating shamblers. As Rick wakes up from his coma in a hospital full of the dead he begins running, killing, and screaming. Once that is out of his system Rick gets his bearing’s and begins to look for his wife and son.

With that idea alone you could have a great story. Rick empties clips of bullets into zombies, finds his family and then lives happily ever after. Maybe there is a samurai sword wielding ex-lawyer somewhere in there to boot.

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A true zombie story never ends, Max Brooks writes in the "The zombie survival guide" on his 10 lessons for surviving a zombie attack "The Zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on". This is true with "The Walking Dead", even though Rick finds his family he then has to deal with finding a safe way and place to live, staying away from the zombies, and surviving with his fellow human’s.
Most zombie movies end with the survivors finding a new place to live away from the living dead or escaping in some RV or helicopter. "The Walking Dead" takes those ending's and shows where the survivors go from there. If the group finds a place to live away from zombies, we then follow how that sanctuary treats them, and how they treat each other.
With great characters, constant death, jaw dropping twists, non-stop carnage, and so many different outlooks on how to live in this new world "The Walking Dead" is the perfect comic for any horror geek. If you can read you'll enjoy the exposition. If you can't they are pretty pictures of people being devoured and having their brains blown out, sometimes in that order.
AMC is now bringing the comic series to T.V. and it looks spectacular. The actors they have portraying the victims/survivors look like they will be able to really pull off the feel of the comics. The actors we are seeing in the trailer are familiar faces who played a few roles here and there on different television shows in the past. I was able to notice Lennie James who has been in both “Lie To Me” and “Human Target” as my favorite guest characters of both series.

The fact that “The Walking Dead” is getting such great actors is just another indication that this series is going to be getting the attention it deserves. Best of all though is the director, Frank Darabont. With movies like The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist under his belt we know that Darabont can not only direct a great personal movie but bring some real horror to the production.

With great source material, amazing actors, a director who understands the mechanics of horror, and subtle special effects “The Walking Dead” will be a great visualization of ordinary people trying to live in a world coming apart all around them.