In "Days Gone Bye" we see one character ask to be left to die and turn zombie so that he might join his zombified loved ones. Just in case.įor the humans in the Walking Dead volumes so far, we've seen some take death into their own hands. Whether by hammer, blade or gunshot, once the threatening forms are rendered truly dead, they are burned. In "Safety Behind Bars," we see an attempt to reason with a newly turned zombie in the hopes that there may be a way to save the former human. In "Miles Behind Us," we see some zombies detained in a barn in the hopes that there might be a way to cure them. For the shuffling forms the most direct way of rendering them absolutely inert is to smash their brains. The zombies are the most obvious dead forms in The Walking Dead volumes. There are many different kinds of death displayed through the volumes thus far, but it is the power over death that compels our attention to the panels in "Days Gone Bye," "Miles Behind Us" and, especially in "Safety Behind Bars." From the immediacy of Rick's individual and initial quest (buzzing for the nurse) to the larger communal effort to survive, man's struggle against the inevitable is defined as his attempts to control it! Medical technology kept Rick Grimes from falling into a true death. But Rick Grimes is not dead and, not a zombie because an external power has been exerted to save him. Show More classified as among the dead category) who shuffles instinctively and displays no consciousness or awareness.
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