The full comic is all about the father. The Walking Dead (comic)

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Taking as a basis the analysis of memories of the Great Patriotic War infantry officer A.Z. Lebedintsev, famous researcher Yu.I. Mukhin assesses responsibility Soviet officers for the excessive losses of the Red Army troops in that war. The question is raised: is this how we train officers in our army, and do our people need such officers? This is the first book of its kind - both on the topic covered and on the way it is disclosed.

Gordon Dixon thread

Vetka didn’t remember her parents. Only from the words of Great-Grandfather did she know that they had become infected with something and died. She didn’t yet know how to walk properly, but somehow managed to get out of the hut, and then her consciousness came into contact with the thoughts of her Great-Grandfather. At that age, children do not yet know about the impossible, so Vetka heard, understood and trusted him. Her great-grandfather led her deep into the forest, away from houses and clearings burned out for fields; trees and branches sheltered her from the rain and wind, and she only had to reach out for food. So she grew up far from her parents' home. Translator's note:...

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My own attempt to write an alternative. What to do if there is no way out and everything is lost. If you are sitting in a bunker and counting the days left until you die, and there is a radioactive desert above. If the opportunity arises to change everything, what to do and whose side to take. Update 05/04/2010 I am doing final editing. The second part has already been thought out, if you have patience - wait :-)

Herbal wreath. Volume 1 Colin McCullough

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Herbal wreath. Volume 2 Colin McCullough

“The Herbal Wreath” is the second part of Colleen McCullough’s dilogy, which is a continuation of the novel “The First Man in Rome.” The renowned conqueror of Germany and Numidia, Gaius Marius, strives to achieve what was predicted to him many years ago: an unprecedented election as consul of Rome for the seventh time. This can only be achieved at the cost of betrayal and blood. The struggle pits Marius against murderers, power-hungers and Senate intriguers and leads to conflict with the ambitious Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's trusted right-hand man and now his most dangerous rival.

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general information

Comic " the walking Dead"shows the world after a zombie apocalypse, the chain of events that led to the "fall" of the world is not told, but from the memories of survivors it can be indirectly judged that the crisis developed over at least several weeks. The exact reason for people turning into zombies has not been revealed, and the source of the epidemic is also unknown.

Basic storyline comic is the struggle for survival of a group of people. Central character comic is Rick Grimes, a former police officer turned leader of a group of survivors seeking permanent refuge.

The main idea developed in the comic is “evil”, inherent in all people initially, but for the majority it is restrained by norms and rules of behavior peaceful life. It is shown that with the destruction of social ties, with the destruction of the usual way of life, in conditions of limited resources and the struggle for survival, moral standards cease to exist, their “dark side” is revealed in people. As a result, other survivors become the main existential threat along with the zombie threat. Not all people are able to endure this; many commit suicide with the onset of a crisis, “taking” their entire family with them; many experience irreversible changes in their psyche, changing people so much that they are unable to return to their previous lives.

Chapters

Days Gone Bye / Good days have passed (1-6)

The story begins when, during the pursuit and arrest of a dangerous criminal, a policeman from a small town in Kentucky - Rick Grimes - is seriously injured and loses consciousness. After an unknown period of time, he comes to his senses in a hospital room. No one responds to his calls for help. Then he himself begins to look for help, but sees that the hospital is abandoned. Opening the locked cafeteria, he sees a group of zombies attacking him. He miraculously escapes death, after which he goes to his home, but sees only desolation. On the threshold of the house, he is hit in the head with a shovel by Dwayne, a boy of about eight, who mistook him for a zombie. Together with his father, Morgan Jones, they use their neighbors' house as a refuge. Morgan tells Rick what happened. In accordance with the plan, the surviving people began to be evacuated to big cities to better coordinate their defense; Rick's wife and son are most likely in Atlanta.

Taking a car and a weapon from the police station, Rick goes in search of his family. Along the way, he runs out of gas and finds a horse on a nearby farm, on which he rides to Atlanta. On the outskirts of the city, he sees complete desolation, and upon entering the city, he is attacked by a whole crowd of zombies. He is rescued by Glen, a young guy who takes him to a small camp of survivors on the outskirts of the city. There Rick finds his wife, Laurie, and seven-year-old son, Carl. They evacuated along with Shane, Rick’s partner, but were too late: when they approached Atlanta, the city was already “dead.” They are living in a trailer and tents and are waiting for the army to arrive to evacuate them to a safer place.

Among them, Dale is a man retirement age, he traveled around the country with his wife in his trailer, his wife died at a campsite near Atlanta. He sticks with two young sisters who help him: Andrea, who worked as a clerk at a law firm, and Amy, a college student. Also living at the camp are Allen and Donna, a couple in their forties, with twins Ben and Billy, about seven; Carol is a middle-aged woman with a daughter, Sophie, about seven years old (her husband committed suicide, unable to bear what was happening). Jim is a middle-aged man (a mechanic from Atlanta), he lost all his relatives, and miraculously escaped from the infected city. Each of them tells their own story of survival, in which they lose all their loved ones.

At night, when everyone is asleep, Dale stands guard with a rifle on the roof of the trailer. They don't have enough weapons, and Rick and Glen decide to sneak into a gun store in the city. Concluding that zombies identify themselves by smell, they smear the insides of a recently killed zombie on their clothes, and it works: as they make their way closer to the city center, the zombies do not notice them. Having collected carts full of weapons, they move back, but it begins to rain heavily and their clothes get wet, they miraculously escape from the zombies, losing in the process most weapons.

A month after Rick's appearance, a conflict grows between him and Shane over Shane's sympathy for Lori. Rick guesses that there was some kind of relationship between them. One night they are attacked whole group zombies, which has never happened before. Before everyone can react, one of the zombies mortally wounds Amy and bites Jim. The next day, Jim goes further into the forest with a gun in his hand. Conflicts between Shane and Rick, who considers it necessary to lead the group away in search of more safe place, reach a climax. Shane points a gun at Rick, wanting to shoot him, when Carl shoots and shoots Shane in the throat, killing him. The group decides to start searching for a safer place.

Miles Behind Us/ Miles Behind (7-12)

Made To Suffer/Born To Suffer (43-48)

The Governor survived being mutilated by Michonie. Having recovered from his wounds, he tells his men a tale about the supposedly evil inhabitants of the prison. Soon, scouts from Woodberry find the location of the prison and the Governor and his army arrive there. The assault begins, which soon fizzles out. People living in prison do not intend to give up and fight off the attack. Having lost a dozen people, the Governor retreats. Rick's team also suffered damage, Excel, Andrea and himself were injured.

Immediately after this, Tyreese and Michonee decide to counterattack and escape from the prison to the Governor's location. Their plan fails. Tyreese is captured and after negotiations with Rick about surrendering the prison fail, the Governor beheads him with the sword of Mishoni, who managed to escape.

Meanwhile, Dale, Andrea, Glenn, Maggie and Allen's children and Sophia leave the prison in a trailer, fearing another attack. Soon it happens again and this time it is more violent. Unable to withstand the pressure of the attackers, the defenders of the prison die, even Lori and her newborn daughter. Only Rick and Carl manage to escape. But the Governor's cruelty turns against him. One of his fighters, seeing Lori and Judy killed, realizes that he was following the monster and kills his former leader. After this, the remnants of the Governor's army barricade themselves in the prison building, where they find themselves trapped without food or ammunition.

Here We Remain / Here we are the same (49-54)

Having lost his wife and daughter, Rick is completely devastated. Together with Karl, he gets to a small town. There are no living people there and Rick and Carl take refuge in one of the houses. All this time zombies are trying to break into them. Rick, not yet recovering from the wounds received during the first assault on the prison, becomes seriously ill. Karl, who is only eight years old, is forced to defend their temporary shelter and take care of his sick father.

Rick soon recovers. Having exhausted the food supplies taken from the prison and found in abandoned houses, Rick and his son go hunting in the nearby forest. During the next game hunt, they find a car in good condition and take it to themselves. One day an incident occurs - a telephone rings in one of the abandoned houses. Rick rushes there and picks up the phone. At the other end of the line, a woman tells him about a group of survivors and invites him to join them. But Rick has already experienced enough to once again trust someone unknown. Nevertheless, he continues to call back the stranger. Soon he begins to hallucinate that he is talking on the phone to his dead wife.

Some time later, Michonni, who escaped from the Governor, comes to their hideout, after which they decide to go in search of people who left the prison after the Governor’s first attack. Using the car Rick found, they hit the road and soon find Dale, Andreu, Glenn, Maggie and the children on Hershel's farm.

What We Become / Who we have become (55-60)

Rick, Carl and Michonnie are once again among friends, although the meeting is far from joyful due to the news brought by Rick. For Maggie, what happened turns into a shock when she learns that all members of her family are dead. Dale is also unhappy, he begins to be afraid of Rick and admits this to Andrey.

One night, new living people appear at the farm - former military man Abraham, his girlfriend Rosita and a man named Eugene, who introduced himself as a scientist. They inform the farm's inhabitants that they are heading to Washington, where, according to Eugene, a security zone has been created and offer to go with them. Rick doesn't really trust strangers, but he understands that staying on the farm won't keep his friends safe. The rest come to the same conclusion, after which everyone sets off.

On the way, Abraham talks about the herd - a very dense, numerous crowd of the dead, through which it is almost impossible to break through. At night, during one of the rest stops, Maggie tries to hang herself; they barely have time to pump her out. After several days of travel, the Group arrives at hometown Rika. He suggests going there to pick up weapons and ammunition from an abandoned police station. Abraham and Karl go with him, and the rest remain waiting for them at the gas station.

While Rick, Carl and Abraham are away, the others are waiting for them at an abandoned farm along the road. Dale again confides in Andrea his concerns about Rick. Meanwhile, Rick and his companions are attacked by thugs, which they barely manage to repel. Soon they arrive in the city where Rick used to live. There they find Morgan Jones still alive. Unfortunately, he did not save his son Dwayne and the boy became a zombie. However, he agrees to join Rick's group, and they, having re-stocked weapons at the police station, head back. But on the road they come across a herd - a very dense crowd of zombies. Trying to break through, they lose their car and part of what they took from the city, and only by miracle do they manage to get to the rest alive and unharmed. Before the herd reaches them, Rick and his companions quickly leave.

Fear The Hunters / Fear the hunters (61-66)

During the next stop, a terrible event occurs - for unknown reasons, little Ben kills his brother Billy. This puts Rick in difficult situation. Ben can harm any member of the group and no one will understand it. Abraham suggests killing the boy, which understandably draws protest from Dale, Andrea and Rick, but some agree with Abraham, but no one can bring themselves to do it. The dispute is unexpectedly resolved by Carl, who kills Ben early in the morning while everyone is sleeping. No one sees this; the boy was able to sneak through Glen, who was on duty, unnoticed. But Karl's father knows that the boy got up before him, but he does not think that his son did it. At the same time, the travelers meet a black pastor, Gabriel, who offers them shelter in his church near the road for the opportunity to feed him. On the way there, Dale suddenly disappears.

Having settled in the church, Rick and the others are soon attacked by unknown armed men. As it turns out, they were the ones who kidnapped Dale, and what's worse, they are cannibals. They ate Dale's other leg, although they didn't eat any more. As it turned out, Dale deliberately lagged behind the group, as he was bitten during the last attack of the dead. Soon Rick, Abraham and Andrea come out to the cannibals and brutally deal with them.

Rick gradually begins to fear himself after what he did, Carl confesses to him about killing Ben, and this upsets Rick the most. Before his death, Dale still admits to Rick what he thinks about him, but does not deny that until now all his companions are alive thanks to him, so he asks Rick to continue leading the group of survivors.

Life Among Them / Life among them (67-72)

The journey to Washington continues. Rick begins to lose his sense of reality. During rest stops, while on watch, he talks on a stolen phone with the deceased Lori, not distinguishing reality from hallucinations. Soon the survivors reach Washington, but even this city is occupied by evil spirits. The survivors begin to become despondent when a certain Aron comes out to meet them. As it turned out, one of the suburbs of Washington was cleared and surrounded by an impenetrable fence. About fifty people live there under the leadership of former Senator Douglas. From time to time, special groups make forays into Washington for food, medicine, clothing and other items. After Abraham and Rick rescue the ambushed miners, Aron declares trust in Rick and his companions and invites them to join the community.

The town really looks peaceful, just like it did before the zombie outbreak. As it turned out, Aron is a scout who is looking for survivors and if they have positive qualities he invites them into the community to expand it. There is a place for every new person here. So Rick and Michoni become local guardians of order, Gabriel, respectively, is a priest, Abraham is a builder, Morgan is a cook, etc. The leader of the community, Douglas, makes a good impression.

Rick and his friends' harrowing journey has come to an end, but are they ready to return to peaceful life?

Too Far Gone / We went nowhere further (73-78)

On his first trip, Abraham finds himself in a situation where their company is attacked by walkers. Abraham rushes to Holly's aid, but Tobin (the construction chief) orders everyone else to retreat, pointing out that she cannot be helped. The stubborn Abraham, who has seen worse, saves Holly. After this incident, everyone begins to respect him and literally a week later he becomes the construction chief. In a conversation with Douglas, Tobin realizes his past mistakes and says that this way he will even be calmer.

Douglas's son hit on Andrea. His mother (Regina) notices this and begins to woo him, but her son says that this is just communication. Glenn, under the pretext of replenishing supplies, ends up in the armory when Olivia was issuing weapons. Rick, having acquired a weapon, offers it to Andrea, but she refuses and starts a conversation in which she points out that they are safe here and nothing bad should happen.

Scott has a fever. Only Doctor Cloyd and Heath know that he was bitten, who, together with Glenn, goes to the city to get antibiotics. At night on the roof they notice that large group walkers crowded around a small store, as if something had lured them there, and in the morning they saw a detachment of armed people in the store. They throw one of their people out to be eaten by walkers in order to gain time and leave their shelter. Taking advantage of this moment, Heath and Glenn sneak into the pharmacy, find some of the necessary medications and get out of there, but the roar of motorcycle engines is heard by members of the armed group.

In the evening after the opening of the temple, Gabriel conducts a service. Afterwards, arriving at Douglas's house, he says that everyone he came with is evil and will do harm, but Douglas does not pay attention to this and asks Gabriel to leave.

While patrolling the town, Rick notices a man sleeping on the street. After meeting Pete, he learns that he had a quarrel with his wife and therefore spends the night here. Rick later remembers that he noticed a bruise on Ron (Pete's son). After drawing analogies and talking with Pete's wife Jaycee, he comes to Pete and begins a showdown, which results in a fight. ( A small retreat: After this scene, a joke was added to the comic in the form of a color fragment). Result: Jaycee and his son move away from Pete, Rick already feels like a complete psycho. He seems to calm down after talking with Douglas about Alexander Davidson, whom he killed, considering him dangerous. Rick reveals his secret about Shane's relationship and death. Douglas sends Rick home to see Carl, but he is very offended and leaves for school. Rick, as Douglas asked, comes to see him and after a conversation heads home. Sitting in the room, Rick begins to “talk on the phone with Laurie” and at that moment Carl appears, who believes that his father has really gone crazy.

Scott is dying. During the funeral, Pete appears in an agitated state and tries to stab Rick to death. Regina (Douglas's wife) tries to calm the man down, and he, in a state of passion, cuts her throat. At Douglas's request, Rick kills Pete, and the shot attracts the attention of the same armed group that Glenn and Heath noticed.

While the dead are being buried in the town, during the funeral service, armed people try to enter the town. But everything quickly ends with fire support from Andrea from her position in the tower and the skillful actions of Rick and his team. Once everyone returns to the temple to make sure everything is in order, Rick notices Douglas leaving the hall. Having caught up with him, he demands that he return to the people and calm them down as a leader.

But he declares that the leader is now RICK!..

No Way Out (79-84)

Calm is slowly returning to the town of the living. Only Douglas still cannot get over his loss. Aaron warns him that he can no longer go beyond the wall to look for survivors. Meanwhile, Abraham and his men decide to drive away the dead people gathered at the gate. As usual, Andrea goes to the bell tower, and everyone else, armed with crowbars, knives and other quiet weapons, goes to battle.

Unexpectedly for everyone, a herd of dead people wanders into the town. Abraham and his comrades barely have time to return before the herd lays siege to the town. Andrea finds herself trapped in the bell tower.

Rick is urgently taking action to ensure people's safety. Additional armed posts are set up, and several families are concentrated in one house. Jaycee and Ron move into Rick and Carl's house.

In the morning, another problem is discovered - one of the sections of the wall surrounding the town turns out to be unreliably fastened and begins to stagger under the pressure of the dead. Glenn, Heath and Spencer make a desperate attempt to get to Andrea and in the end all four find themselves cut off from the others.

Meanwhile, the unreliable section still falls off and the dead begin to seep into the town. They kill Tobin and bite Morgan, and Michonni cuts off his bitten hand. The rest, realizing that they won’t be able to stop the zombies, run home. Spencer recklessly invites Andrea to run away with him, leaving the others and instantly loses her favor.

Meanwhile, Rick himself is faced with a choice - to try to save as many living people as possible, which almost certainly threatens death, or to save himself with Carl and survive, leaving the others in trouble. However, Rick is not going to leave people in trouble. Having captured one of the walkers, he smears himself with the entrails of the dead man, as he did before, and goes out to help with Carl, Jesse, Ron and Michonni. Maggie and Sophia stay behind, desperate to leave this way. Morgan dies from loss of blood.

During the passage between the walkers, Ron and Jesse die. Douglas tries to shoot himself surrounded by walkers, but notices Rick and decides to help him. With his shots, he attracts the attention of zombies, and they bite him. In agony, Douglas begins to shoot in different directions and one of the bullets hits Karl in the head. Rick runs to the hospital bay with Carl in his arms, hoping to save his son.

We Find Ourselves / We have found ourselves (85-90)

After the battle, Rick, again forced to take on the role of leader, announces that the community will be restored and that no dead will drive them away from here. Abraham, Glenn, Spencer, Aaron and other survivors collect the corpses to burn them.

Rick, sitting in the infirmary, admits to Denise that Ron and Jesse died because of him. Glenn apologizes to Maggie for leaving, and Maggie understands. Later, everyone attends the funeral of Tobin, Morgan, Douglas, Jesse and Ron. Rick says that all his decisions were wrong and suggests that everyone present their own idea for further survival.

Sitting in the infirmary, Rick begins to talk to an unconscious Carl when suddenly Carl starts coughing. Rick tells Denise about this and she, having examined Karl, says that Karl is still in a coma and no changes have occurred. While walking near the graves, Rick notices Michoni near Morgan's grave. She says she will never be happy.

The next morning, Andrea, Maggie, Olivia, Aaron and Eric begin killing the dead. Meanwhile, Karl woke up. As it turned out, he suffered short amnesia from the wound; he forgot about the events that took place in prison after the Governor’s attack. Rick helps him remember the past.

Meanwhile, new problems are brewing and food is running out. Rick and his group go on an expedition to find food, unaware that a conspiracy is brewing against him. Glenn turns out to be an accidental witness, and as a result, the community almost faces bloodshed again. Rick uses his leadership abilities and brings the rebels to reason. Nicholas apologizes to Rick. Holly suggests to Abraham that it's time to take matters into his own hands. Rick and Andrea have sex because they are both lonely.

A Larger World (91-96)

The group that went to the city returns with a large supply of provisions, but Rick realizes that soon there will be no food at all and decides to establish Agriculture. Andrea finally decides to forget about Dale's death. Carl has nightmares and remembers how he killed Ben.

Abraham and Michonni go to the city to investigate. All this time, a stranger armed with a revolver is watching them. Abraham and Miccioni meet him after a short skirmish with zombies. He turns out to be a rather clever guy, he takes the sword from Michonni and takes Abraham hostage. To Rick, who came at his request, he introduces himself as Paul Monroe (Jesus). He came from the other side of Washington, from a larger community of two hundred people. He tells Rick that he and his men are not the only survivors, and offers to take a few people to his community so they can look for something they need. However, Rick, not trusting Paul, knocks him out.

The group ties Paul up and takes him to the infirmary. Rick warns all survivors in Alexandria about the appearance of a stranger and a possible attack from his community. Rick asks the group to begin preparations, after which he visits Paul and asks him some questions. Michoni, Abraham and Rick decide to find the communities Paul was talking about under Andrea's cover. Having reached the review site, Rick begins to believe that the stranger was telling the truth, and their whole life could change.

Returning to Alexandria, Rick notices Carl communicating with a tied-up Paul. After a short conversation, Rick agrees to the deal and begins to gather the group for a hike. After going through a rather difficult path, Rick, along with Paul, Michoni, Glenn, Carl and Andrea, reach the wanderer’s community. There they are met by the community leader Gregory, who is very similar to Douglas. But as soon as Rick manages to get to know him, a certain member of the community attacks Gregory and, muttering some nonsense about blackmail, stabs him with a knife. Rick has to kill the attacker, which, as always, almost spoils the beginning a good relationship. Paul manages to calm his comrades, after which he explains to Rick what could have happened.

It turns out that the community led by Gregory is protected by a gang of a certain Negan, calling themselves the “Saviors”. They clear the area around the community of zombies, demanding in exchange tribute in the form of half of the products produced in the community. And now, apparently, something has gone wrong. Having learned about this, Rick offers Gregory to solve the problem with the Saviors in exchange for half of the property, to which Gregory gives a positive answer. As Andrea prepares to depart for Alexandria, Andrea tells her group that the people of Hilltop are cowards who don't care about the coming apocalypse. Rick is hurt by these words and explains why he became a leader. Rick says that after teaming up with Hilltop they will have huge army, consisting of two hundred people, and then they can stop surviving and start living.

Something To Fear/ Reason for Fear (97-102)

People are worried about the group not returning. Abraham comes to visit Eugene, and he tells how and where you can get things to make cartridges. Rick and the people are attacked by Negan's gang. The group kills all but one so that he can pass on the information that the Hilltop community is now under Rick's protection. The group returns and Maggie reveals that she is pregnant. Abraham and Eugene go into town to get their things. While discussing Eugene and Rosita's relationship, Abraham and Eugene are attacked by unknown "Saviors" who have been secretly following them all the way. Abraham is killed, and Eugene is taken hostage by one of Negan's men, Dwight.

Carl discovers his father and Andrea naked in bed together. Suddenly, Dwight visits the community. He, threatening to kill Eugene, demands that Rick let his people into Alexandria. At this point, Eugene bites off Dwight's scrotum, giving Rick's group a chance to attack the disoriented attackers. Dwight and his men retreat. Eugene and Rosita mourn Abraham together. Glenn, believing Alexandria to be no longer safe, decides to move with Maggie and Sophia to Hilltop. After Abraham's funeral, Rick decides to meet with Gregory again and discuss the current situation with him, and at the same time transport Glenn and his family there. In a minibus, they travel to the streets of Washington, where they are ambushed by the Saviors, led by Negan. Negan decides to kill one of the members of Rick's group, thereby taking revenge for the recent lost people. He wants to choose a victim with the help of a counting rhyme and his bat, to which he gave the name “Lucille.” The countdown ends with Glenn, and Negan beats him to death. In the end, Negan announces that he will return to Alexandria in a week and take half of the property from its residents. Furious, Maggie hits Rick for not being able to do anything about it. Karl points a gun at her, but Sofia's intervention stops the conflict.

Rick's group reaches Hilltop. In a conversation with Gregory, who is more concerned about whether the "Saviors" found out about the agreement between them, it turns out that none of his people even knew about Negan's existence. Leaving Maggie and Sofia at Hilltop and taking Jesus with him, Rick returns to Alexandria. Returning, Rick finds the entrance to Alexandria covered with corpses and cars of the Saviors. Nicholas, who arrived to meet the group, assures that during the attack not a single person was injured, that the aggressors only managed to break the gate. Andrea takes Rick to one of the captured Saviors, Dwight.

Unexpectedly for everyone, the next day Rick decides to free the marauder, because he is tired of suffering losses among the people dear to him. As the men in whose eyes Rick's status as a leader has visibly eroded (including Carl, Andrea, and Michonne) disperse, Rick tells Jesus to follow Dwight and find out the whereabouts of the Saviors.

(103-108)

While Jesus follows Dwight, Negan's company arrives in Alexandria along with himself. Rick has to open the gate and let them inside. Negan's gang goes into every house and takes whatever they want. Negan personally lets Rick hold his bat, thereby leaving him without a weapon. But realizing that his people could harm the residents of the city, Rick just stands there and does not try to kill Negan. As the gang loads their "loot" into a van, Negan gets into one of them and drives off. At this time, Rick returns home and does not find Carl. Jesus is discovered and Dwight takes him to Negan's base. But Jesus manages to escape unnoticed. As the Saviors unload the van, they notice Carl, who has secretly climbed into the Saviors' van along with Abraham's machine gun. He kills several "Saviors". But Dwight, who arrived at the unloading site, manages to disarm the guy. Negan shows his possessions to Carl, as well as his "wives". Negan says that if he liked some girl in society, he “takes her as his wife” and then rapes her to his heart’s content. After the tour, Negan brings Carl to his room and begins asking him questions related to the past. He asks Carl to remove the bandage (this is how the disfigured part of Carl's face is shown for the first time), and when Negan is brought a bat, he asks Carl to sing her a song. Communication is interrupted by a message from one of his subordinates that a certain Mark is ready. Negan reveals that if his new "wife" had a husband or boyfriend, Negan burns half his face to show that new girl is now completely at Negan's mercy. Negan publicly burns the tied up guy's face and then takes Carl to talk about plans for the future...

Awards

Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel 2010 Scream Awards
Comic The Walking Dead topped the New York Times bestseller list in the graphic novel category

Zombie World

The zombie image developed in The Walking Dead comics is most similar to the zombie image created by George Romero in his first films in the early 1970s. These are classic “slow zombies” who died and rose again. These zombies are quite tenacious, able to withstand extreme cold in winter, freezing or reducing activity, and restore it with the onset of the warm season. Zombies do not distinguish human speech, reacting only to loud sounds. The main way to identify zombies among themselves is a specific smell; transferring this smell to his clothes, a person becomes invisible to them. This feature helped Glen and Rick get into the depths of Atlanta in search of weapons, and also Michonie spend several months surrounded by zombies, with virtually no shelter.

Zombies are shown in varying degrees of decomposition, up to complete skeletonization of the body, but even then they retain some motor ability. The greatest speed of movement and reaction is shown immediately after conversion, in the first months of existence, due to the best preservation of the body. The only way The final kill of a zombie is severe damage to the central nervous system, due to breaking the head with a heavy object such as a shovel or hammer (Tyrice's favorite weapon). Cutting off a zombie's head is not enough to kill it permanently, as the head still shows some signs of activity afterwards.

Another important feature is the route of infection, one of which is the bite. A person bitten by a zombie usually turns into one within about a day. The only way to avoid this is surgical amputation of the damaged part of the body, if possible, in the first hours after the injury. Under proper conditions for the operation, a person survives, which has been proven in the example of amputation right leg Dale. But, as it turns out, the bite only significantly speeds up the conversion process; Regardless of the cause of death, all people will be resurrected as zombies, which echoes the concept of zombies in the work of George Romero, where the same principles apply.

Father and Son (Staring Father, Staredad)- a series of comics about a boy who runs into a room and says something to his father. At this moment he is reading a newspaper, and turns his head in surprise at his son’s screams.

Origin

Comic book author - famous artist KC Green. He also created memes such as . Original comic about a father and son called Dad Wasps Oh No. In the story, a boy runs into the room and complains in tears about the bees in his room. The alarmed father first turns his head, eyes wide. Then he gets up and shouts in anger that he raised a gay man, takes a wasp's nest and eats it in front of the boy.

Only the first 4 panels of this comic became a meme. The main element is the face of a mustachioed man with bulging eyes. To enhance the effect, a fifth panel is usually added with an enlarged face of this guy. That’s why the meme was called Staredad (“Staring Father”).

Staredad began spreading on forums and imageboards in 2009. The first meme was published on March 5 on the website Dirty.ru - in the comments to the Story from North America post.

In April, one Sal's Runescape Forum user posted a meme template, writing, "Just add text."

Meaning

There are many options for using the father and son meme. But the traditional plot is one in which a boy runs into the room in tears and complains to his dad about something. The father, sitting at the newspaper (in some cases, at the computer), first answers his son without looking. Then the boy asks something, and it’s his father’s turn to turn around.

The expression on the mustachioed dad's face usually symbolizes surprise in the spirit of: “How could you say that?” Sometimes a scene plays out in which a boy warns his dad about something (“The British are coming!”), and the father turns around and turns out to be what the son warned him about. Often in such cases, some characteristic element is photoshopped onto a man’s face.