About Heroes

Writer: Robert "Captain" Kirkman
Artist, Inker, cover: Charlie "Child's Play" Adlard

Everyone has their little stack of comic books when they leave the comic store on Wednesday. I don’t know about everyone else but for me I put them in order of “must read or I’m going to expel floods out of both ends soon!” to “I’m going to drink some liquor and take a few pills before I sit down for this one.” The Walking Dead for me, and I mean this with the support of every toilet in the world, is at the top if not near top of that pile every fucking time it comes out!

I swear the genius Kirkman puts into every issue is amazing. This is issue 26, one issue after the dreaded 25-issue mark (it made it yippee, but there was never a doubt). Still, this book surprises me. I love horror films. This book is like a horror film, it reinvented the Zombie genre for comic books and dare I say it, movies too. After sticking with this book I feel that it has set a standard for the genre that has yet to be touched. I’d say out of all horror films I like zombie movies the best, I’ve seen a lot of them, my friends and I used to have Zombie Movie Saturday’s. That being said I figure I have some knowledge on the genre and half way through reading each issue I have guesses to the up coming events and/or plot twist. Nope. I’m wrong, I can admit it, and I almost never know where this book is going. That little point, and the fact that each turn I have enjoyed thus far, keeps this book at the top of my pile.

So for issue 26 stuff happens, and then more stuff happens, and then I’m shocked by the ending again it really is as simple as that. I can’t say much more then that, if you’re behind an issue, I’ll ruin something for you. So what are you doing sitting there in your mom’s stockings and high heels eating Pringles fool go get the issue!

Quick note on color: I hear people from both sides of the issue. Some want it in color some know why it isn’t in color and are fine with it in black in white. Incase you don’t know why it is in black and white just go look at the original Night of the Living Dead. That effect, simply put, is done in the book to relive George Romero’s work, it stands as a kind of homage. What it lacks from movie to comic is the use of shadows. Now granted most of the survivors are walking around in the daytime and sleeping at night, but they are held up in the prison with the generator out of gas. I just think there could be more contrast in that effect, which would make it spookier. Other then that I love what’s being done, for this issue a solid A.