Posted on 03/19/2012 3:04:19 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Michonne’s gory Walking Dead backstory revealed in the latest issue of Playboy
Stoic, sword-wielding Michonne is one of the greatest characters in The Walking Dead comic series, but before the zombie apocalypse, she was an ordinary lawyer who used swords for fencing rather than chopping off limbs. The new issue of Playboy features a six-page comic that reveals the precise moment Michonne became a badass. Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard made the short comic "Michonne's Story" for the April 2012 issue of Playboy, which just came out yesterday. It's a quick trip down memory lane with a very different Michonne, one who panics at the sight of walkers, but we get the highlights: how Michonne gets her katana, the fate of her boyfriend and her friend, and the gruesome decision she makes to survive. It's hardly a must-read. It doesn't offer much insight into Michonne's character and doesn't reveal much we don't already know, but if you're a huge Michonne fan, it's worth a gander.
The Hollywood Reporter has the first two pages of the comic, so you can decide if it's worth heading to your local purveyor of dirty magazines and assuring the clerk that you're only buying it for the comics.
Hey, get out of my head LOL. My oldest daughter and I had this EXACT same conversation last night. I could believe she was mad at Rick when the entire situation was her fault.
Shane actually dies early in the comics, so it was not a shock that they killed him off. The comics are kind of shocking in who they kill off, and it would be disappointing if they played it too safe with the show.
They have screwed the pooch.
Walking Dead (the series) was interesting because it was “realistic”.
How would normal people react to a zombie plague?
Now they’ve introduced the typical, 90lb female “badass” character to screw it up.
Nothing wrong with that, provided they don't do the 90 lb female, 225 lb male fistfight. Anybody can be a badass with a sword and no rules!
The other theme is that people don’t run out of ammo until the writers want to kill them off. I can’t stand how many shots people get off and never reload.
The final thing that gets me is that people are not far more concerned about scratches getting walker blood/material into them, or just basic hygenic fear and making sure they tend wounds, keep clean and if they’ve touched walkers and gotten blood/brain/flesh on them to like decontaminate quickly. Because if you are bit you will turn. They can’t just have it that a non-lethal bite can turn you but getting zombie virus in your scratches or cuts can’t. A virus doesn’t care how it gets inside you. It will work either way. A non-killing bite has to work the same way as zombie material getting into cuts/scratches/getting covered in their blood when killing a zombie and not washing it off right away.
Here’s why:
The baby is Shane’s. Conceived before the virus. The placenta keeps this baby from the virus. Lori knows it’s Shane’s she lied. She has to admit this before birth. If the virus is airborne they will have her deliver in a sealed sterile room and use either the placental blood or baby’s blood to work a ‘potential cure’ storyline. If the virus isn’t airborne, the sealed sterile room doesn’t have to exist to use the blood but the cure storyline can still go on.
Then she will cry about Shane dying and his ‘gift’ to all of them. Really not liking the bipolar nature of her character.
And remember in season 1 they found the live zombie hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck. Fairly subtle and people wondered what the heck that was about but never gave it much thought.
Don’t know. You don’t see any zombies’ gaping skin cuts healing up. If anything you’d think when your immune system gets weaker from overuse/can’t recharge under constantly fighting off an infection it can’t kill off, then you stress the body further with a bad injury, it should allow the virus to potentially take over - just like a bad chest cold or flu can allow pneumonia to set in as a secondary infection.
I’m not talking about the zombies. I’m referring to the still non-zombies who are already infected (according to Jenner’s whisper). As I said the reason is probably sloppy writing, which is endemic in this show, but the idea is that if the virus has the ability to reanimate the dead, then maybe it can also speed recovery in the living.
Maybe, but on any level you look at it, even the virus’, it doesn’t make sense.
I believe there is a fatal flaw in the virus of this storyline. It defies how life works, including any known virii, non lethal or lethal. If a dead body has no blood left in it, how can a virus reanimate it? I would accept the reanimation premise if the dead people had an intact circulatory system, but most reanimated bodies do not.
If there’s only half a body left, how, from a metabolic viewpoint, can it be brought back to life and continue to survive? How’s it transporting energy at a cellular level?
These dead bodies we see all the time - why are not more of them falling apart? Those without blood in them having lost a hand, arm, bottom half, or had an arterial wound - they would have to start decaying and breaking down. Yet almost all those still moving are complete, not dropping arms, or parts as the body decays. There would be necrosis occuring because we see they have wounds and injuries not being fixed, they would gangrene and rot and we do not see that. It doesn’t make sense the virus that reanimates a body, requiring incredible internal power to do that - can only do that, but not repair it? They obviously have a dead body smell and that that does not change over time, so the virus is not healing these bodies or making them work better, so the conclusion is they are dead bodies, just animated. And what this means is that they should be falling apart rather quickly due to decay. It doesn’t make sense the virus can somehow keep a dead body from falling apart but be powerful enough to reanimate a dead body in the first place.
Just because the brain stem is working, the body can move and see and want to eat? These people would be in what we call comas or persistent vegetative states. I think this is the “metachlorian” flaw in the premise of this series.
Lethal viruses kill off the host and not one ever brings it back to life. That’s why they are lethal. I know this is the whole deal with this being ‘different’ but I think it defies willful suspension of disbelief. In the closest other scenario of “28 Days” it was clear it was blood borne transmission, those infected got weaker and died in a week if they didn’t feed on an uninfected person, and people were very worried about contamination via food and animals and surfaces. I think Walking Dead is more realistic with the timeframe it took for a body to ‘turn’ - generally hours, rather than 28 Days’ almost instantly after infection.
They’d have been closer to scientific reality with a virus closer to the kind in the movies of 28 days/weeks.
That’s not how it works. It only affects the dead. Basically, the idea is that the virus, whatever it is, is airborn and it infected everyone on the planet. So anyone who dies, for whatever reason, will come back as a zombie. But as long as you’re still alive it has no affect on you. As for zombie bites, they don’t turn anyone into zombies (though they originally assumed that was the case). Zombie bites are lethal, but they’re not the cause of the zombie plague.
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