第138页 AFTERWORD BY SIMON REGG

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While other monsters clamour for attention with capes and claws and bandages, the zombie has embedded itself into our consciousnesses with little more that a stumble and a moan. Metaphorically, this classic creature embodies a number of our greatest fears. Most obviously, it is out own death, personified. The physical manifestation of that thing we fear the insecurities. More subtly, the zombie represents a number of our deeper insecurities. The fear that deep down, we may be little more than animals, concerned only with appetite. Zombies can represent the threat of collectivism against individuality. The notion that we might be swallowed up and forgotten, our special-ness devoured by the crowd.
oddly, those rotten bastards also give us hope. The undead maybe tenacious, tenacious, single minded and as relentless as lava, but they are also stupid and slow; ineffectual and inept. You don't have to be Van Helsing, even Peter Venkman to throw down with a zombie. Anyone with a pulse can step up. as long as you keep your head, defeating a zombie is not an insurmountable task. You don't need spells, or stakes, or silver bullets, you just need you wits and a weapon. A gen is good, but most blunt objects will do, things we might have around of terror, that makes the zombie so attractive to us. The idea that we could ourselves, beat death. Beat it until its brains come out of its ears.
With the Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman has brilliantly captured the spirit of George A  Romero's definitive vision of the modem zombie and applied it to his own epic tale of survival. I would imagine everybody reading this has at some time or another asked themselves the question: What would I do? How would I survive if it was me against them?Whilst our favourite zombie movies always seem to finish far to quickly, leaving us wondering what happended next, Kirkman is able to savour the journey and outnumbered band of survivors. of the best zombie stories, the ghouls themselves are merely bit part players, a context in which to play out the human story. Out real concerns are for the people that remain, for their future and by proxy, out own.
The Walking Dead brilliantly captured the simple truth that in the face of Armageddon, the little things remain unchanged. We till love and hate the same people. We still like the same bands, get the horn, remain frightened of heights and spiders. Kirkman cleverly focuses his narrative on the enduring minutiae of human existence and uses a full blown zombie apocalypse to bring it into sharp relief. Often the roots of great fantasy are firmly embedded in the truth. It is this simple reality that makes The Walking Dead such an engrossing read.
Now, that may be just be a load of bullshit, film school speculation, but as we all know, it's unwise to underestimate a zombie. So if you're a fan who;s just torn through this volume, devouring it hungrily, clawing at each page turn, desperate for the next morsel of information, go back to the beginning, take a big deep breath and start again. Savour it, think about it, re-evaluate it and like the best zombies, take it slow.
Simon Pegg
2004