#THE WALKING DEAD DAYS GONE BYE SERIES#

Here we get the first time “ walkers” is used – from Morgan. Especially considering he needs to be explained a bit about the world, as it is now. Rick couldn’t have been jumped by better people.

Morgan appears to still have a civil nature, correcting his son speaking improper English, his son insisting on saying a blessing before eating supper. “ Did you get bit?” he asks Rick, who for his part doesn’t understand what any of that means. It’s clear Morgan does not trust too many people. Or the spot where he and the boy are holed up currently. Waking up, for the second time in an unfamiliar place, Rick is tied to a bed back at Morgan’s place. The boy actually cracks him with a shovel. A man named Morgan Jones (Lennie James) and his son come across Rick. It’s tough to imagine waking up to a world like that. The most difficult is when Rick isn’t sure whether or not he’s dreaming. And the world gets a little worse again, at least for him. Back at the Grimes house, Rick finds nobody. His first confrontation with a zombie sees him taking a bike, the half-body crawling towards him in a disgusting heap. A little further and he finds evidence of a military operation. Seeing Rick outside in the world, walking past rows of covered bodies, then panning out to a wide shot of the hospital where we can see him lost among an almost-field of them. A door is barricaded at the end of a hallway with the inscription DON’T OPEN, DEAD INSIDE scrawled across it in spray paint. In a hallway, the mutilated body of a woman sits on the floor and Rick realizes life has changed drastically. The world is different now, only it seems Sheriff Grimes was the last one to figure it out. Stumbling out into the halls, he discovers the entire hospital deserted. Only the flowers Shane brought are dried, dead.Something terrible has happened. Eventually, Rick wakes up thinking he’s there. We watch as Rick sees Shane hover above him. Another one from behind misses the vest and nearly blows a hole through his side. Soon we move to the gunfight, where Sheriff Rick and his second-in-command Shane come up against fleeing criminals.Īnd then Rick takes a bullet, putting him down. We get Frank Darabont elaborating these opening moments, drawing out the relationship between Shane and Rick before the world goes to shit. This is now pretty much where the first comic started out. They talk about women, as men often do when they’re alone. In the seat next to him is Officer Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal). I remember it really got my attention.Īfterwards, we cut back to Sheriff Rick actually working.

#THE WALKING DEAD DAYS GONE BYE SERIES#

Amazing, intense opener for this series when it first premiered.

Then shifts gears after watching Rick blow a little zombie girl away. So the initial scene with Rick Grimes, where we’re introduced to him, takes a little step back from the comics. He calls – “ I‘ m a policeman” and “ don‘ t be afraid” – but when she turns around, it’s a zombified little creature, half a mouth.

Then he sees a bunny slippered young girl in a bathrobe shuffling along the street. With a Jerry can in hand, Rick heads through a quasi-tented city made of tarp and cars. Cars are overturned everywhere, left in any place here or there. Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) stops his car on a deserted stretch of road. The very first episode of The Walking Dead begins almost exactly like the comics. * For a review of the following episode, “Guts” – click here 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Written by Frank Darabont Based on the comics by Charlie Adlard, Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore. Forceful scripting that gives the book a strong grounding in reality, crisp b&w artwork, a shocking final sequence and brisk, gory proceedings elevate this book from the trash heap of pedestrian horror comics.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. and Dawn of the Dead, the last humans may turn out to be as much a danger as the zombies. Of course, as in recent hit movies 28 Days Later. Grimes makes his way to Atlanta, the nearest large city where there may be other living people, and events take several unexpected turns upon his arrival, as he meets up with a rural encampment of survivors. From the moment Grimes comes to, it's a harrowing battle to avoid hordes of decomposing zombies and a hope-against-all-odds search for his missing family.

From here, he's immediately dragged into a world where dangerous revenants are shambling amok without any sort of an explanation. This collection of the first six issues of the ongoing series opens with police officer Rick Grimes awakening from a gunshot-induced coma. Taking a well-worn genre-flesh-eating zombies overrun the world and the unlucky surviving humans must deal with the gruesome aftermath-and approaching it from a purely character-driven point of view propels this series into the spotlight from out of nowhere.

The walking dead days gone bye