The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman
In celebration of Free Comic Book Day 2012, which is May 5, I am posting this review. If you have a chance, go to a local comic shop and check out what they have available, free and otherwi…
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters by Robert Kirkman
ZPAA rating
Mid-teen and up.
Gore level
8 out of 10–Bloody wounds including a zombie bite; cannibalism with cooking (a leg in the fire); human on human violence (knife killing and…
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become by Robert Kirkman
Now that the TV show is over, we’ll be back to the comics for a bit!
ZPAA rating
Mid-teen and up.
Gore level
8
out of 10–Lots of zombie attacks with splattered…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 13: Beside the Dying Fire
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
9.5 out of 10–Um…yeah, there were lots of zombie exterminations with blood, guts, gore, etc., too much to docum…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 12:Better Angels
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
8 out of 10–Only a few zombie attacks, but the humans dispatch of them quite brutally (including two skulls dripping with bloo…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 11: Judge, Jury, Executioner
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–Bloody torture scene including use of a knife on a leg; only one bluish zombie who gets lots of clos…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 10: 18 Miles Out
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7.5 out of 10–burnt corpses; lots and lots of zombie head stabs with related blood an…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 9: Triggerfinger
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
8.5 out of 10–Zombie forcing his head through a window peals back a lot of his skin and lo…
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Walking Dead TV show is returning to AMC on February 12, 2012. A new trailer is on YouTube. Unfortunately, it’s little more than a teaser, so who knows what will happen next after the big shoot up at the barn?
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 7: Pretty Much Dead Already
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–Some views of the zombies in the barn; wrangling zombies stuck in the mud; gun…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 6: Secrets
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–chicken leg broken (while it’s still alive); zombies eating a bunch of live chickens; zombies…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 5: Chupacabra
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–A couple of zombies who wind up with impaled heads; Daryl makes a necklace of zombie ears;…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3: Save the Last One
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
9 out of 10–Lots of gunshots to zombie heads with the burst of blood; one character has an intense seizure; one…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 4: Cherokee Rose
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–A waterlogged zombie (i.e. more bloated than rotting); flashbacks of a zombie attack and character …
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 2: Bloodletting
TV rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
6
out of 10–The zombie count is down a little bit, however, Rick’s son
Carl has been shot and we see some of the surgery…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1: What Lies Ahead
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
8
out of 10–Whoa, a black and white comic book gets the full color, full
motion, "realistic" treatment. Lots of zombies and other dessicated
corpses who aren’t walking around populate the episode and are pretty
unpleasant to look at. Some of them are killed in especially
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman
ZPAA rating
Mid-teen and up.
Gore level
8
out of 10–Mostly human on zombie violence that is highly graphic as is
normal for this series; one suicide by running into zombies;…
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The TV version of The Walking Dead has a fabulous web site with a survival test here. You answer a bunch of questions and it ranks your potential in a zombie apocalypse. I took the test and here is the result:
Do they know that I am a father? Do the…
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer by Robert KirkmanZPAA ratingAdults with high capacity only (use your judgment based on content summary below)
Gore level10 out of 10–Usual human on zombie and human on human violence, with lots of decapitate…
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before by Robert KirkmanZPAA ratingTeens and above
Gore level6 of 10–For this series, the zombie presence is quite minimal. There is some graphic human on human violence, but no where near the level of the extend…
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