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Kirkman supplies an extremely balanced cast, and it would be interesting to know the percentages of instinct and contrivance. Grimes’ world may appear to have been rapidly restored, but there are emotional schisms that only escalate in the following Miles Behind Us.

This is because for all the danger of the environment and the occasional terrifying scenes, he’s primarily writing a soap opera. The other members of this small commune are an eccentric bunch that may as well have neon arrows with ‘cannon fodder’ lettering hovering above their heads, but Kirkman surprises again, establishing a largely likeable cast. They were ferried there by his also surviving police partner Shane Walsh. He surprises on several other occasions, not least by providing Grimes a rapid happy reunion with his wife and son, located as part of an encampment just outside Atlanta. Robert Kirkman at that point was a relatively unknown writer, but an indication of his advanced narrative instincts is provided by the use to which Grimes does put that bullet.

You may need that bullet later.” It helps that Grimes is able to access the local police station’s weapons cache. “No, leave him be”, Grimes is advised, about to shoot a zombie through a fence, “It can’t get to us in here. Grimes adapts rapidly to the new world, bringing his police training to bear in unexpected situations and learning about zombies from those humans who’ve survived. Moore’s work has a cartoon quality lacking in his successor Charlie Adlard’s more naturalistic portrayals of humanity, but this does nothing to draw the sting from those first zombies chewing on remains in the hospital lobby.

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It won’t be the last time in the series such thanks are due. Tony Moore’s first scene of the zombie infestation is chillingly gruesome, and we should be thankful the pages are black and white. Both versions open with Officer Rick Grimes awakening alone in hospital unaware of how much the world has changed while he was comatose, recovering from injury sustained in the line of duty.

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With many never aware that the TV show was adapted from a series of graphic novels, it’s astonishing to see how much of Days Gone Bye transferred directly to the TV screen – most of it, in fact. These were as a black and white comic of which there were no great expectations other than the hope the creators that it might break even. The Walking Dead has become such a phenomenal success that’s it’s quite the sobering experience to revisit the origins.

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