What happens when zombies stop being fun? For the first while, you could really get into all that neck snapping, hacking at them with axes, chopping with swords and the rest of it. It would relieve tension and really help you work through all those pent up rage and frustration of everyday life, but when you realise that they’re not going away, and that this is the new reality, what happens then?

This is the central thesis of Robert Kirkman’s comic for image comics. There have been so many zombie movies where the hero sails off at the end, or they find a cure or whatever, in a nice neat two hour package. What would happen to people if they realised that this is it. There’s no more episodes of America’s top model or anything else for that matter.

I’ve just finished volume 11 of the series, and there’s no end in sight for Rick Grimes and the small gang that he has collected around him. ‘No one is safe’ is what Kirkman says himself about the book, and he stays through to his word, with a large number of unexpected deaths. It also follow a similar path to ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, in that its not just the zombies you have to worry about, as the humans turn just as feral. It is available on loan from the Morgan Quinn Memorial Library, for those interested in finding out for themselves, just add a comment in the section below.

AMC (the studio responsible for Mad Men) are about to release a TV adaptation of the series. You can see the trailer below, but i’m not holding out too much hope for it! It looks suspect at best, but I’ll try to go into it open minded.