Quote Originally Posted by muraii View Post
Hi. I'm another recent recruit to the show's audience. A thread on GamersWithJobs.com about The Walking Dead (TV) sent me here.

I remember watching The Night of the Living Dead in 2nd grade, at around midnight, with my mom. I'm not sure what possessed her to watch it, and to include me, but perhaps it was on TV and was at the time still relatively recent (this is approximately 1977-1978, so no VHS). She also thought a snack of oatmeal and toast would be nice. I still recall watching a female zombie eating a dismembered hand and noting how similarly it sounded to my spoonful of oats.

Like many, I'm a fan of The Walking Dead, warts and all. I think We're Alive succeeds over TWD in the humanity of the characters. How often have you noticed Kirkman's characters melodramatically bemoaning how their old world is gone, about how "this world is pitiless," etc.? I get it, and it makes sense: it's an apocalypse. But though Michael, Lizzie, Saul, et al do discuss this, they don't dwell on it as much. They're people; they've got stuff to do.

I started Chapter 1 last Wednesday, I think. By this morning I had hit the wall. I tried listening to some of my other podcasts (gaming), but great as they are I didn't want to be away from the group from The Tower. So I've just restarted Chapter 1.
Hey, welcome! Glad to see that my mom wasn't the only one who let her kid watch Night way before she should have!

I find it interesting that our culture has adopted the idea of more than one apocalypse. I blame this on Buffy.