Three New The Walking Dead Covers!

im guessing it is another talking walker before jesus. does anyone ese think that maybe kirkman is spinning off into the realm of a hybrid walker race of people who didnt quite turn all the way? maybe some with feelings for those still alive, but the greater of them with the urge to eat the living as with the regular walkers but vocal?

Ok, so this has got to be the “zombie that responds to pain” that Kirkman was talking about at the SDCC comic panel. He said, we would be encountering some “strangeness” soon, which included the discovery of a zombie who responds to pain. This appears to be exactly that. It looks as if Jesus was doing what Jesus does best, slaying scores of the undead, when all the sudden, he slashes at a corpse, and the corpse let’s out a howl, a blood curdling scream, and falls to it’s knees, gripping it’s wounded shoulder, wailing in agony. This is why Jesus has a look of utter shock and disbelief on his face. From whispers to screams; first we have Marcos experience, and paranoid ramblings about the talking dead; and now Jesus’s first hand encounter with a screamer, a zombie who can feel pain, and respond to it.

Now, my theory, is that the voices herd by Marco, and this screaming, pain-feeling walker, is that they’re actually feral-zombie-pretenders. This type of apocalyptic-crazy-person has been addressed in several works of zombie fiction. These deranged folks, who’s pysche and every other part of their being was crushed by the events of the outbreak. They lost it, completely slipped their tether, and for one traumatic reason or another, they think “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” is there best bet, and choose to live amongst the dead. The completely assimilate, and regress to a primal, feral state of existence. They even eventually go so far as feeding on human flesh, as that is their only means of sustenance when living as part of a herd. Anything else would cause alarm amongst the actual dead. The ones from World War Z, and other books,(they had a specific name for them, but I can’t remember)would even attack the living just like the actual zombie would. They were so far gone when people found them and tried to rehabilitate them, that they didn’t even remember how to speak. One thing that held true about these people, across all the different novels, was that they were damn creepy. And people struggled to understand their choice, as do I. It was a really cool aspect of the apocalypse, as well all know, a ZA would definitely create some strange circumstances, and completely new things. It was one of those unnerving, skin-crawling abominations manifested by the plague. Also, it’s really not that far fetched at all. I could definitely see Kirkman taking this route; I had hoped we would eventually see some feral children or something; but this is even better if it’s true.