I was a “zombie” for “The Walking Dead” I remember the day I first “discovered” Robert Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead” as if it happened today. I heard about the show through commercials, social media, and from friends, but it never really captured my full interest because it seemed like a generic zombie action movie, and I’ve already seen plenty of those. Anyway, one day, while playing on my PS3, I found myself bored out of my mind because none of my friends were available and I didn’t have anything interesting to play on my own. I then browsed my wide game collection that I unintentionally built up due to receiving free games from Sony’s game subscription service “Playstation+.” I noticed I had Telltale’s “The Walking Dead: The Game” stored
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Whenever I finished my projects in my Graphics class, I would pull up a tab and watch the TWD TV show. I caught up with the current episodes in about 3 days, and would call up a couple friends on PS3’s video chat to watch, discuss, and theorize every new episode. After Season 3 finished, I felt “incomplete,” as if TWD was my drug and I was going through withdraws. I began searching up the comics, which are the source material for both the TV show and the game, and began downloading and reading them on my phone. I breezed through 110 issues, literally a decade worth of comics, in less than a week. Still not feeling satisfied, I purchased the novels and read them during my lunchbreak and after I finished any of my assignments early. Because my thirst for TWD refused to be quenched. I became an editor on the TWD wiki page, mainly for the benefit of being instantly notified whenever anything TWD related was being freshly …show more content…
TWD was on my mind 24/7 and had basically taken over my life; as if it had “infected” me; as if I was...zombified. (Pun definitely intended.) The mere mentioning of anything TWD related would have me respond faster than I would if my mom shouted my own name. I’m surprised I haven’t broken the laws of physics trying to instantly track down anyone in a 50 mile radius that spoke of TWD to discuss everything I knew about the
Whenever I finished my projects in my Graphics class, I would pull up a tab and watch the TWD TV show. I caught up with the current episodes in about 3 days, and would call up a couple friends on PS3’s video chat to watch, discuss, and theorize every new episode. After Season 3 finished, I felt “incomplete,” as if TWD was my drug and I was going through withdraws. I began searching up the comics, which are the source material for both the TV show and the game, and began downloading and reading them on my phone. I breezed through 110 issues, literally a decade worth of comics, in less than a week. Still not feeling satisfied, I purchased the novels and read them during my lunchbreak and after I finished any of my assignments early. Because my thirst for TWD refused to be quenched. I became an editor on the TWD wiki page, mainly for the benefit of being instantly notified whenever anything TWD related was being freshly …show more content…
TWD was on my mind 24/7 and had basically taken over my life; as if it had “infected” me; as if I was...zombified. (Pun definitely intended.) The mere mentioning of anything TWD related would have me respond faster than I would if my mom shouted my own name. I’m surprised I haven’t broken the laws of physics trying to instantly track down anyone in a 50 mile radius that spoke of TWD to discuss everything I knew about the