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Warning : Contains SPOILERS for The walk Dead Deluxe # 87!For a world that ’s set during a zombie Revelation , The Walking Deadhas done an exceptional Book of Job at maintaining a tier of naive realism that other horror franchises merely do n’t . However , that leaves the series open to a number of criticisms , as buff expect every item of human survival of the fittest to be accounted for ( even the ‘ boring ’ stuff ) . This was latterly brought to the surface by one devotee interrogative answer by Robert Kirkman himself , who offered a satisfying salutation for one plot of ground hole that was never addressed in the series .
InThe Walking Dead Deluxe#87 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard , lector can relish a full - color edition of the original comic upshot , which debut in black and livid . Not only that , butThe Walking DeadDeluxebooks also let in fan questions suffice by Kirkman . One in picky made a very near stage about something that every soul living in a post - apocalyptic human beings would be concerned about : food - more specifically , diet .
The Walking Deadfan ask the following interrogative sentence :
After a year or two of run through mostly bean or corn cans , are n’t the people around likely to develop very regretful diseases like [ scurvy ] or something ?
To which Robert Kirkman replied :
Robert Kirkman : Yeah , arrest into the dieting of it all … seems a short too proficient and irksome . There are vitamin around and thing like that . We ’ll decamp over the piddling thing from fourth dimension to sentence .
In The Walking Dead Deluxe # 83 , Robert Kirkman make several influences for his zombie series ; while some are obvious , others may be surprising .
The Walking Dead Creator Confirms Survivors Supplement Their Diet with Vitamins
The fan require this question makes a very good point , as a cosmos that ’s overrun with walk corpses not only shuts down all - imply food is n’t being grown , harvested , or send - but also any animal that could be hunted for kernel would be potentially hazardous . These survivors do n’t know if any random cervid had an encounter with a Walker , making their meat unfit for use - and the same goes for any animal .
That only leaves ( as this fan pointed out ) tin trade good that were n’t loot during the initial outbreak and subsequent panic , i.e. , canned bean and corn . Sure , the survivors may have enough for a few year with their relatively small numbers , but that ’s not exactly enough to keep the human dead body pass , especially considering all the running and fighting they ’re doing on a regular groundwork .
However , as confirm by Robert Kirkman , there are also vitamin that were left in desolate stores all around the country following the initial outbreak right alongside those cans of noggin and edible corn . By affix their diet with vitamins , Rick and the bunch can safely chow down on those send away goodness to satisfy their stomachs without veneration of not getting enough of the vitamin and nutrients their dead body need to subsist .
Robert Kirkman Gave an Equally Perfect Alternate Solution for This Plot Hole: It Doesn’t Matter
Creating a franchise likeThe Walking Deadis a doubly - edged brand . On one hand , it ’s fresh to see a revulsion series with character reference that make relatable decisions , as fan can translate a few issues and think , “ that ’s what I would do during the zombie Revelation ” . That ’s the reasonThe take the air Deadis considered naturalistic , because the journeying these people go on is one almost anyone can identify and empathize with . However , that means the series also open itself up to interrogative sentence like these . “ If it ’s so realistic , how do they get their daily recommended vitamins and nutrients ? ”
Kirkman answered it perfectly with the first part of the above quotation mark , “ Yeah , getting into the diet of it all … ” , because ‘ how they get their vitamins ’ is n’t the point ofThe Walking Dead , it ’s ‘ how they hold their humanness ’ . While ‘ it does n’t matter ’ alone is the perfect solvent to this plot hole , it ’s still nice that Kirkman took the time to answer the question seriously . ' Vitamin supplements ' is a great answer to a question that , admittedly , would be asked in a literal - world zombie apocalypse - a plot hole thatThe Walking Deadcreator effectively just filled .
The Walking Dead Deluxe # 87from Image Comics is usable now .
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