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Warning ! This article contains spoiler for The walk Dead Deluxe # 68In the populace ofThe Walking Dead , survivor of the zombie apocalypse do n’t only have to occupy about their flesh being consumed by Walkers , but also their fellow humankind , as masses resort to cannibalism on a fairly steady groundwork throughout the serial publication . While that ’s been meet with a certain level of fan critique , the Maker ofThe Walking Deadexplains on the button why cannibalism is such a commonplace .
The Walking Deadprimarily followsRick Grimes from the moment he woke up from a comaand found himself in a post - apocalyptic wasteland seeming directly out of divine revelation , to the time of his tragic yet heroic death . AsRick Grimes fights for his lifein this unholy new earth , he encounters warlord , vagabond gangs , and - of course - zombie . But one of the most worrying aspects of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine is how deranged apparently normal and trustworthy subsister really were , and what they were willing to do to their fellow man in guild to go . This , of trend , is in address to the aforesaid cannibalism , as a striking number of citizenry resolve to hunt and eat humans as opposed to local wildlife and/or stock . So , the interrogative sentence naturally arises : why , in such a relatively short amount of time between societal collapse and the average person ’s descent into cannibalism , did that person take to eat other multitude rather than find another seed of food ? Well , Robert Kirkman finally explain why .
The Walking Dead: Humans Were Easier To Trick Than Animals Were To Hunt
InThe Walking Dead Deluxe#68 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard , lector get the probability to bask a full - vividness reprint of the originalThe Walking Deadissue . Not only that , but these Deluxe issues also admit Robert Kirkman answering questions that buff have asked him about the serial publication over the years . In this issue , Kirkman decided to eventually tackle the ‘ cannibalism critique ’ , and squash the complaint once and for all . The fan who wrote Kirkman had a hard time accept how quickly people resorted to cannibalism , to which Robert Kirkman answer :
They ’re in a largely rural area , where there are n’t a portion of houses . There was a pot of looting during the other days of this worldwide tragedy . So store are ransacked and when people croak into the cities for trade protection - they accept nutrient with them . So yeah , food is scarce in this area . And hunting enough game to keep a group fed on a regular basis … is hard , especially if you ’ve never track down before . That opposed to just being capable to trick someone into come with you and killing them after … I know it ’s a laborious leap to cannibalism , but these mass were starving .
With this answer , Kirkman fully acknowledges why fans would have criticisms for this ‘ leap to cannibalism ’ , but he also dead explains why it ’s really not that big of a ‘ leap ’ at all . There was no food in any store after just the first few days of the initial eruption , mean people had to start up hunting and foraging for their food for thought almost straightaway . Even hoi polloi who have hunt down their entire animation usually are n’t capable to do so with such even achiever that they can feed their entire family line , or total community . And even if they could , the animals in that area would start to realize that they ’re being killed at an alarming rate , and move further away where it ’s safe . But , as Kirkman pointed out , that in all probability would n’t even happen in the first place , as a lot of these people have n’t been hunt their intact lives , with some never having hunt before at all .
No food , no search acquisition ( at least , not enough to keep a family / community alive ) , and a loose handgrip on sanity due to total societal crash and extreme hunger . Plus , tricking other humans - who were also desperate and hungry - was simply easier than trying to hunt game , wee-wee stark convenience another factor in the choice to become a cannibal . It ’s brainsick and twisted , but after Robert Kirkman ’s explanation , it actually makes a lot of good sense why cannibalism is so common inThe walk Dead .
The Walking Dead Deluxe # 68published by Image Comics is usable now .
