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When it comes to automaton , The Walking Deadcomic is a seminal entry in a flaming and violent musical genre that fans have flocked to almost as systematically and insatiably as the undead legion that are always trying to eat Rick Grimes and friend whole . Though an achievement in its own right field , The Walking Deadisn’t without its fault , with one particular criticism of the franchise recently being singled out by series creator Robert Kirkman as being 100 % true .
Full of dying , dismemberment , and more pull and tearing of physical body than most other zombi stories combine , whenThe Walking Deadisn’t kill off beloved characterswhile place up others for their doom , it ’s telling a story of loss and grief pushed along by themes of family and survival — elements that admittedly skew towards the overdramatic at times .
In a recent behind - the - scene breakdown of the series by Robert Kirkman , he reveal whypeople criticizingThe Walking Deadby call it “ a soap opera house with zombies ” does n’t bother Kirkmanbecause , accord to him , that was “ kind of the idea . ”
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Robert Kirkman Agrees ThatThe Walking DeadFeels Like A Soap Opera At Times
The Walking Dead Deluxe #82(Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Dave McCaig)
Admitting to having no qualms about being compared to a soap opera house in the “ Cutting Room Floor ” fabric inThe walk idle Deluxe # 83 , Kirkman explains why some writing techniques and news report beats are derived from scoop opera structure . Saying that he sometimes has so much story ground to cover where he needs to make “ every lilliputian fib ” — i.e. each character ’s individual electric arc — progress a little in each way out , Kirkman compare this cognitive operation to being “ Kind of like how soap opera house make for with their never - ending string of check - in and update scenes . ”
Going on to further say that he does n’t ever “ take umbrage ” to people call this similarity out and thatThe Walking Deadtelling a liquid ecstasy opera house - like storyisn’t “ a risky affair at all , ” Kirkman ’s open embracement of this specific literary criticism says a lot about how the series works as a whole . Rightfully pick out to put fibre development over spectacle while constantly piling on relationships defined by red-hot play and backstabbing reveals , Kirkman often rely on dialogue - heavy interaction between his characters , a just chunk of which understandably come across as having a very soapy feel .
The Walking DeadIs A Soap Opera And The Series Creator Isn’t Bothered By It
While the serieshashad its fair percentage of other criticisms over the years that fans and critic likewise have leveled at it , Robert Kirkman ’s undead epicis still reach down one of the most of import and influential narrative the zombie genre has ever produced , with the comic ’s Georgia home boy opera “ flaws ” even making the jumping to the dealership ’s various television series , where the same critiques were more valid and far light to see . The Walking Deadwears its Georgia home boy opera DNA on its sleeve , and accord to Robert Kirkman , that ’s one of the reasons why it ’s so safe too .
The walk Dead Deluxe # 82is now available from Image Comics .
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