Meaningless Awards of the Week- 10/8/08


Best Out-of-Context Quote- Secret Six #2

Batman: “I had a burrito.”

Walking Dead 53Best New Direction- The Walking Dead #53

For the first 52 issues of The Walking Dead, everything has been about survival. Finding a safe place to live, finding a way to sustain said living, finding a way to not kill each other in said living space, escaping from the Governor, and then escaping from the Governor again. The characters in TWD have never been what one might call “proactive.”

But it looks like all that’s about to change.

After a happy reunion between the prison survivors and the group that left the prison before the Governor attacked, three new people show up on Herschel’s farm. One is some chick who wasn’t given much of an introduction this issue. Another is a military man, trying to lead the group to the one place he thinks might have survived the zombie apocalypose. The third is a scientist, who claims he knows “exactly what caused this mess.” And the three of them want to head to Washington D.C. and rid the world of the undead menace once and for all.

And they want Rick & Co. to come along.

After four years of the survivors reacting to everything, I’m looking forward to seeing them go on the offensive. I can only hope this isn’t one of those Robert Kirkman curveballs he tends to throw every now and again.