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1drdawnffl
aug 3, 2012, 5:13 pm

So I know they are graphic novels (with the exception of Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor--which I haven't read yet), but I've just finished Walking Dead volume 1 through Walking Dead volume 16 and would certainly classify them as zombie apocalypse/ post-zombie apocalypse dystopian stories.

Mid-series the danger focus clearly changes from zombies (still present but less scary) to humans. I highly recommend the series to dystopian novel lovers.

2Verwijderd
aug 7, 2012, 3:06 pm

I see a difference between apocalyptic and dystopian literature, but never mind that. So lemme ask you this, cuz I'm old and my students are always talking about "when the zombie apocalypse comes." It seems to be a metaphor for the imminent breakdown of Life as We Know It. True?

3Steelyshan
aug 7, 2012, 4:44 pm

I am going to chime in, if no one minds...my teenage son tells me that his age group is pretty convinced that zombies, in the actual sense of walking dead, is a real possibility. So I attempted to explain to him that of all the apocalyptical scenarios, this one would be the absolute least likely. I tried to explain how it is a complete impossibility from a medical standpoint. I was, of course, because 15 year olds know EVERYTHING right?, told that there was a time when walking on the moon was thought to be completely impossible. ugh....so..I continued to torture myself by explaining EMP's, the possibility of the yellowstone caldera erupting, long-term effects of global warming, etc...these were met with less interest than the zombies. Youth today? good grief! I remember those drills in elementary school where we had to pretend a nuke went off and had to sit in the hallways with our heads between our knees....that was scarier than zombies!

4Verwijderd
aug 7, 2012, 11:48 pm

Yikes! What HAVE these children been thinking all these years to fear the zombie apocalypse? Is it that everything else is just to real and horrid to imagine?

One of my colleagues says that the CDC actually put up a site to prepare people for disasters, and, to add levity, called it "Zombie Preparedness." Here it is: http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm

Yeah, duck and cover. I remember that. We quit doing it in the third grade b/c it would elicit nervous questions from the us kiddies about how our parents would come and get us if the Commies blew up all the roads and could we bring our dogs to the fallout shelter, which was the school gym. The teachers didn't want to deal with the upset, and knew we'd all be incinerated anyway.

I wonder if that little fallout shelter sign is still on the gym door. Don't see those much anymore. Maybe they shouldhave a zombie one.