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Regarding Post #53 with Darabont saying Breaking Bad was only 7 episodes in season 1. Wasn't the main reason for that was because the season was cut short because of the writer's strike?

I'm cool with AMC doing only 6 episodes as an "experiment" to see if this show finds an audience before they commit to 13 episodes seasons.

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Those zombies look fan-fucking-tastic!

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Yes kind of. Breaking Bad was supposed to be 9 episodes, but the strike cut it down to 7. in any event, AMC did a test run with it.

Again, I think this is a great idea for The Walking Dead. It will get people on the show (aside from the talent putting it together) and it should get just enough steam going, since there will not be a lot of competition on the broadcast networks with football and the World Series going on at that time.

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Whoa, how did I miss this news? Looks great

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that might be the most awesome looking zombie i've ever seen

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i don't see how this can't be fucking awesome. the attention to detail is spectacular.

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I kinda like the idea of a 7 episode season. It'll be a good warm up for what to expect in the later seasons.

Going by the comic timeline I can see the season finale ending with

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I'm not a fan of the comic at all (it's an over-rated piece of shit with both horrible writing and art), but I'm looking forward to see how they improve on it in the show.

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Do we have a premiere date for this yet?

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sometime in October

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Haha Slop with the http://i50.tinypic.com/2cpomzl.gif.

Yep, looking good, can't wait!

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Return of the Living Dead gets my vote for best Zombie effects makeup. But those stills from Walking Dead indeed look awesome. We'll just have to see how the final product looks on screen.

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Fuck yeah! That's how a zombie should look.
Why can't we get zombies like that in movies?

And Michael Rooker being cast deserves a 'Fuck yeah!' as well :rock2:

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Overrated, why? Just because you don't like it? Its just juvenile to call the writing & artwork "horrible" that doesn't even make sense. The pacing & character work the first 40 issues was phenomenal, it didn't rely on any cheap gimmicks & was completely original in the medium and started an entire revolution of horror comics popping up everywhere. And the artwork expecially Moore's early work is phenomenal, the line-work is just insanely clean & the detail & perspective is amazing & the fact that it stayed with a black & white palet in a medium that depends on color is only a further testament to the quality of the story.

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That's pretty much the definition of "overrated": something a lot of people like that you don't (or at least don't like as much).

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The story is very, very slow in places. I know that a lot of people think the mayor was way over the top, even for a "comic book" character.

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:lol: No, it's all pretty bad - the story and concept is alright, everything else is shit. Kirkman is a horrible writer and Adlard is a far below-average comic book artist who contributes some very stiff and uninteresting work.

But mostly the dialog is crap - just useless exposition really. People talk like they're reading out of instruction manuals. Hopefully that shit will be touched up for TV, since it would be even more awkward hearing it than reading it.

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Seeing as most readers and critics place the book pretty high (as do many creators and artists) it is pretty safe that if you like the book you should feel pretty insulated against comments about it being overrated or just horrible.

Overrated is basically reserved for when either critics hate something but the general population likes it (Avatar) or when critics love something but the public barely cares (Kickass). Since it is both acclaimed and popular I think you are safe in thinking it is a good series. Kirkman was pretty spotty on his Marvel books, but it is hard for some people to really "get" the characters they are writing unless they know them to the core. When he acts as his own boss and everyone in his universe belongs to him he does a great job.

Personally I like Adlard's art. Little known fact about his art for the series... he does NOT use comic book standard posterboard. It's not giant cold or hot pressed board that is scanned, digitally touched up and shrunk down to comic book print size like just about every book on the market right now. He pens right to a comic book sized page over a very light sketch. Most other artists pen over heavy pencils after they have been applied to near poster sized pages. If anyone cares I can try and scan a few of his pages I've purchased from his distributor so you can see how he does it... I was a art major for many years and built my own resume for comic shows back in the day... it is impressive to say the least if you have any appreciation for the mechanics behind what you read in comics.

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I'm so pumped for this and love the direction that it seems to be going.

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That's actually laziness on his part since that takes a lot less time and work. It's similar to, say, a blu-ray based off of a 16mm transfer rather than a 35mm print - which looks better? And that's the exact reason why his art looks so dull and lifeless (pun intended), while other artists' work usually have more detail and vibrancy.

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^ Kinda presumptuous aren't you?
I don't think you can call the way any artist choses to do his work 'laziness'.

Don't confuse your own opinion for fact.

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I suppose you can call it lazy... but being lazy has nothing to do with why he does it that way (It doesn't take a good artist any longer to work on a bigger scale). The reason he does it that way is for story pacing. He argues that he wants to work in the size the reader will be actually viewing the story (think of it as OAR... filming something in widescreen is silly if the only way it'd ever been seen is in a fullscreen format.) If it looks good at the level he works on then it will look good on the comic book page. It is a black and white book with heavy dialog, he wants to use simple line structures and not use heavy voids of space to create dept (like Frank Miller does with his use of solids). He doesn't use comic book physics, no giant splash pages of people flying in midair in over exaggerated poses with hacked off zombie bits hovering like frozen confetti... He keeps it simple, natural and grounded. The character's need to feel real for you get care about them in a horror comic. Really his art is very close to what a good story-board artist would do for a movie.

Do I think he is the best artist out there? No... he's not in in my top five or ten really. But to suggest that he has no talent because you can't either appreciate it or just don't like it is pretty prickish. I don;t think anyone would you saying "I don't like it because I'd rather see pages be busier. I want large areas of scenery be loaded with detail. I want more close-up action of dynamic poses. I want more McFarlin and less Romita Sr. "

In which case I can suggest sticking with superhero books drawn past 1990. The art it not any better or worse then the Walking Dead books; but they might be closer to what you expect in style and form.

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When you assume...
But FWIW, I can't stand McFarlane and that whole Image crowd - if you care, my favorite comic book artist of all time is Barry Smith for different reasons. But this guy's work just comes off as a bad Mignola rip-off.

I agree with you there and that is why it's not very good comic-book art.

Did I mention I'm looking forward to the series?