The Walking Dead series!

[The_Real_Crunk]

Premiers on AMC on Halloween. I cant wait! I read a ton of the comic but lost track of it when I moved to a town without a comic shop anywhere close by.

[The Toecutter]

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That trailer made me happy.

[Duel]

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I read up to issue 50. It's a good comic.

It's got zombies so, hey, how can I not like this?

[Big Rick Cook]

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The comic is a good zombie fic, but I cringe a lot during dialogue. It's like the writer, blanking on his name, knows how to write natural-sounding dialogue but never learned what makes it interesting to read.

And people fly off the handle with unbelievably over-exagerrated reactions ALL the time. Like, I get it, you know where the characters are going and what's gonna happen, but the strain and stress isn't transferred in the reading like it should be to accept these overblown reactions.

All that said, a zombie series has my interest piqued, since it's never really been done before as a TV serial.

[IamPinhead]

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And people fly off the handle with unbelievably over-exagerrated reactions ALL the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
Back to the topic. The series looks like it will be awesome for the following reasons:
1) Zombies
2) Shotguns
3) 1 and 2 appear to be combined in the series
I would prefer cheesy dialogue in a zombie series. Makes more sense considering the precedents.

[Big Rick Cook]

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I accept that in anime because typically when it happens, it's meant to be that way by the tone of the show. I would normally in zombie stuff as well, because a large portion of the precedented material is that way. In this case Kirkman is taking this very seriously, and the overblown stuff just doesn't fit what he proclaimed to be going for.

[Hrafn]

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AMC has a good track record with original series. Breaking Bad's the best drama on TV right now, and Mad Men's no slouch. Rubicon's a bit too up its own ass at times, but it has some interesting swerves to it. Plus, zombies rock. So this is one to try.

[Jeroak Nelave]

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I think i could actually watch this show...

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Im wondering how brutal they are going to be with the violence.

The comic has some pretty gory stuff, and sometimes it doesnt even involve zombies.

[IamPinhead]

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I accept that in anime because typically when it happens, it's meant to be that way by the tone of the show.

Have you actually sat and watched anime recently?
"I missed the target!"
"You dumb bastard! A lawn dart thrower must never miss, or one day he will fall in battle!"

[Big Rick Cook]

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Your desire to lump "anime" into one massive amorphous organism with never-changing features is insulting and ignorant.

[Goufunaki]

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Trailer looked really sweet.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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One thing that really irks me about the trailer is that stock monster sound effect they play probably 8 times through the whole thing. I juts roll my eyes every time I hear that in any movie or TV show.

[John Mora]

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While I can enjoy zombies as a plot device, the constant use of them in almost all forms of media over the past few years have seriously made me fatigued of them. Perhaps we could find new avenues for future plots? {:3

[Vonwert]

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Space zombies?