teen angst? nahh. and walking dead

          Recently i took a couple days to read the walking dead volume 2 walking dead is one of my favorite graphic novels (and tv show.) In the books they follow a group of people in a world controlled by zombies. In my last post i explained how each of these people demonstrate the certain ways of dealing with the world. The thing i really like about the book is that it really brings out the science in science fiction. by that i don't mean that it is science based like star trek but it in every way (but the zombies) feels like our world. The characters have basic needs and in no time in the 2 books so far has there been a part in which you disbelieve something. These people cant run forever, don't want to live, keep secrets, and even still love.
            After finishing the walking dead volume 2 i thought about its relation to my first book i read this year "teen angst?. . . nahh." Both these books are really different like strange to relate but after reading walking dead I've realized one thing that both share which is the relation to reality. ":Teen angst? nahh." follows Ned Vizzini through his childhood. While this story is a comedy it shows his way of surviving through high school. Its not that high school is in anyway like a zombie apocalypse but the books show this common topic of survival and adapting.
            An example this is in "teen angst? nahh." Ned like many others in high school sees drug use and alcohol use all around him.  Ned found ways of pushing that life away from him and continued to strive for jobs and go through school "clean". In walking dead an adaptation is quite easy to find all the characters have one and thats what differentiates them.
          Its probably the reason I love these books so much but I've realized all my favorite books characters seem so real. they all have basic needs wants adaptations and details that make them special. However in a pure fantasy book like twilight its a lot harder to relate to vampires and therefore  a lot harder to read.

WALKING DEAD

     currently I am reading the 2nd volume to the walking dead books by Robert Kirkman.These books are my favorite comic books by far, not only because I watch the tv show and love zombies but because it animates a world with these horrible creatures by showing everyones separate ways of dealing with them  with it in their own way, whether it be through doubt like Hershel , power like shane, or through relying on others and creating a team like Rick does. Or even simpler do you kill them or no?
         Currently in the comic the starting crew has come across a farm and are staying there due to a member getting shot.
             In this place immediately you are introduced to Hershel, the head of the farm, Hershel is showed as a older religious wise and friendly man. he immediately opens his arms to the group. The author wanted him to look completely normal. In my opinion he is more normal then any of the Characters.
           However after about a day you discover a weird side of him, in the mist of all these zombies he has been saving his sick loved ones in a locked barn. Hershel explains its because they are "only sick" and no one knows what's really going on. It really makes you think, in the whole story you see people killing zombies so naturally and you never think that there is any other choice. its as if the human instinct is too kill things that stand in the way but Hershel goes against this. Truthfuly i would probably do the same to bring my self to kill my best friend would be really hard even if they were a zombie and if there was a small chance of them living if i kept them i would most defenatly keep them.