How often do you find yourself actually fearing for your life, feeling that at any given point you could be gone? When’s the last time anyone worked to get something they needed, and surpassed what they wanted? Robert Kirkman shows the struggle of the average person living in the world where their past life is gone. As the back of The Walking Dead: Compendium One says, “In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.” The Walking Dead may at first seem to be an average cheesy zombie horror sub-genre comic, but with its gritty and realistic tone, it proves to be more than that. The graphic novel The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Robert Kirkman effectively uses the zombie apocalypse to portray the dehumanization of people in a world of death and corruption through his depiction of Rick Grimes, a Georgia police officer and his fellow survivors and enemies. …show more content…
It should be noted that this style of zombie is not entirely original, as it was pioneered in the film Night of The Living Dead, and zombie movies quickly evolved into their own horror sub-genre. Anyways, Rick is –was— a police officer in Georgia, until he’s shot on the job and wakes up from a coma, and into the world where the dead walk (hence the title). Rick also had a family, a wife and son, who he immediately tries to find. Rick’s one goal is to protect his family, and also the rest of his group that he soon meets. Rick’s survival ideology raises questions to the reader, like if the reader would consider if his thought process is morally correct and if that’s how you the reader would react in the event of an