The Walking Dead: Kirkman's zombies take over the world

The Walking Dead

How do you determine when an idea becomes a cult? Whether it is a film, a novel, or a comic, this status of unmissable work is usually given when the essential features of the work itself become a common heritage. Late recognition, as happened to masterpieces of the caliber of Blade Runner or La Cosa, or immediate success, the indelible sign of this entry into the collective imagination is recognizable by the way in which the public becomes attached and makes history its own. In recent years, one of the most striking examples of this dynamic has been The Walking Dead, a concept capable of presenting itself as a point of reference in the world of entertainment, not in a medium, but in two different incarnations, moving with equal confidence. in comics and television.

Subscribe now to Disney + at € 8.99 per month or € 89.90 per year Although the fame of The Walking Dead is mainly linked to its incredible success from the ABC series, the vital spark of Rick Grimes' world was the paper. Before being a record series, in fact, The Walking Dead is a comic born from the brilliant mind of Robert Kirkman, a name dear to fans of the ninth art, who identify him as one of the renovators of the world of talking clouds. Deserved fame by giving new life to the superheroic genre (Invincible), the theme of possessions (Outcast) and not disdaining to take care of a rewrite of the heist movie (Thief of Thieves). In his careful renovation, Kirkman certainly could not remain indifferent to one of the great classics of horror cinema: zombies. And from this passion of his was born The Walking Dead, in the beginning a successful comic, and then a contemporary cult series, which we can now see on Disney +.