Walking Dead Musings, 11/7/2014

As a huge fan of the The Walking Dead on AMC, I actually look forward to Sunday nights. Every creative endeavor doesn't please everyone all the time, but in general you have to appreciate the guts (pun) it takes for the producers and writers to kill off characters that have been popular with viewers over time.

Now, in its fifth season, the push for Washington D.C. and a possible cure to the world's 'zombie virus' is an interesting slant, rather than just existing day-by-day against the biters and bad guys. I do not read the comic books so I don't have insights into possible future plots, but the time is coming 'round for Rick -- the definitive leader who isn't always right but at least takes action -- to find his demise, as much as I enjoy his rejuvenated warrior spirit.

Doesn't have to be this season, but one can envision a bitter-sweet climax where he takes the other 'good guys' in the squad to the point of the cure, and can finally do no more. He perishes, but with the knowledge his kids and the others he cares about can begin a life without the walking dead always looking to feast on them.

Just two cents.

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Zombie tale, Death Clause, available at Amazon Kindle

Now available on Amazon Kindle: Death Clause is the 2011 resurrection of Dark Resurrection.

Surgeon Victor Galloway kept death at bay in the operating room. Now death has claimed him. Resurrected against his will, forced to sign a Death Clause, he must fight for his family and his soul.

Victor Galloway is a prominent surgeon and family man. When he suffers a heart attack, he claws his way to the phone and dials 911. The paramedics arrive, smile down at him and quickly administer a lethal injection. Victors life is ending, but his nightmare has just begun.Close to death and strapped to a gurney, hes offered an unholy deal by Tobias, H.E.L.L.s CEO: Use his surgical skills to harvest the living to feed the undead in exchange for immortality. Refused but not to be denied, Tobias presses his unwilling recruit into the ranks of the undead.

Whether by chance or divine intervention, Victor is different from the others.He is a monster with a conscience, a force for good ensnared by evil, and the only one willing to stand against Tobias and his burgeoning nest of zombies.He must destroy them, but doing so risks the lives of his family and the last hospital employee with a pulse.

New cover art below.