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Are The Zombies In The Walking Dead… Changing?

From today's Walking Dead #118, by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Stefani Gaudiano, published by Image Comics.

The book is really living up to its arc title, All-Out War, rather than showing one battle, it's showing a number, happening simultaneously, some on pause, some on retreat, some moments even tranquil, a war of gins, of fists, of knives and of words. The final aspect will no doubt be the turning point for the conflict between Negan's factions and Rick's.

Also, cool single speech balloon double page spread, that's heading for a T-shirt near you soon.

But there was one plot point that stuck out. Through the ten years of the comic, the zombies have remained ever thus. The George Romero model, rising from the dead after rigor mortis has set in, stumbling, jerking, slow, unyielding creatires. And in The Walking Dead, they are a given, people can work around them, thy are a force of nature that can be worked with as well as fought against.

But, for one, a small thing has changed.

Faster reviving zombies. Is this just the one? Will this be a new evolution of undeadiness? Are things, ever so slowly changing? Just as real life infections evolve and change, becoming more deadly, could this be happening here? Will zombie infections now be harder to contain, just as communities are starting to get a handle on them?

Let's find out…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.

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