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I’m sure you’ve all heard the term ‘Graphic Novel’. It’s what people call comic books when they want to distance themselves from people who read the Beano:
Dinner Party Guest 1 – “I’ve just finished reading a rather facinating graphic novel about the world’s strongest man. It deals primarily with just what it would be like to be such a man, and how he can’t live as other men, having to adopt unique ways to fit into a very judgemental society. It’s rather amusing, although there is clearing a darker underlying message.”
Dinner Party Guest 2 – “Sounds very interesting, juxtaposing his strength against a weak society.”
Dinner Party Guest 1 – “Indeed. He has to shave with a blow torch and eats cow pies…”
Dinner Party Guest 2 – “Cow pies…? Are you reading Desperate Dan in the Dandy comic?”
Dinner Party Guest 1 – “I… Err…”
But The Walking Dead is a pretty grim collection of books, basically offering an alternate ‘what if’ to Zombie films. A group of people struggling to survive an undead appocalypse isn’t going to be in the same genre as the Dandy, but this book lives up to the term ‘Graphic Novel’, with a particularly nasty torture scene. So graphic in fact, that it made me feel ill.
Having said that though Book 6 is more of the same for the series, but without such a cliff-hanger ending as the last one. But if you’ve read the other books then you’ll have to get this one, hence me not giving away any of the story.
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