Here We Remain reads like a compact elegy for a world that has already learned how to bury its dead. Collected from issues #49–54, this volume sits at an inflection point in Robert Kirkman’s long-running serial: the shock of large-scale loss has passed its apex, and what remains is the slow, hard business of surviving … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s Made to Suffer functions like a tonal accelerator in the longer engine of The Walking Dead: it tightens the screws on previously established tensions and converts slow-burn unease into explosive moral encounter. Read as a standalone meditation, this volume is less about the mechanics of survival than about what—ethically, emotionally, politically—survives in us … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: Calm Before continues Robert Kirkman’s long interrogation of what it means to rebuild civilization after collapse. The volume tightens its focus on a single community attempting a return to ordinary life — festivals, social roles, children playing — and shows how fragile that ordinary life is. Kirkman balances moments of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s sixth collected volume of The Walking Dead is where the series’ moral inquiry hardens into spectacle. Collected issues #31–36, This Sorrowful Life stages a collision between two very different social experiments — the fragile, democratic prison community and the performative “safety” of Woodbury under the Governor — and uses that collision to interrogate … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has always been a study in the sociology of collapse; Volume 5, The Best Defense, continues that project with an increasingly clear political and moral lens. This collection deepens the series’ central question: when structures fail, what patterns of life and meaning persist, and who gets to decide the rules for a new … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead has always presented itself as a paradox: a story ostensibly about the undead that is at heart preoccupied with the living. The Heart’s Desire, the fourth trade in the series, sharpens that paradox into a sustained meditation on the limits and liabilities of desire — not only the erotic or the acquisitive, but … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
Volume 3 of The Walking Dead marks a tonal pivot in Kirkman’s ongoing meditation on catastrophe: the terror of the undead remains the engine, but the narrative energy increasingly diverts into the human architectures we build to live with that terror. Where earlier volumes foregrounded immediate survival and the shock of societal collapse, Safety Behind Bars examines the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
If the first volume of The Walking Dead announces Robert Kirkman’s premise—an America emptied of its certainties—Miles Behind Us is where that premise begins to breed complications. The second collected volume refracts the initial trauma of survival into a series of quieter, nastier moral tests: not just how to stay alive, but what kind of people the survivors … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead (Vol.1): Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye arrives, at first glance, as another entry in the long lineage of zombie fiction; on closer reading it announces itself instead as a careful excavation of what a catastrophe reveals about ordinary human life. Collected from the series’ opening six issues, the volume functions as a primer — not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Walking Dead (Vol.1): Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creepshow by Stephen King
Stephen King’s Creepshow (1982), in its graphic-novella form with Bernie Wrightson’s evocative illustrations, occupies a fascinating space at the intersection of pulp horror cinema and comic‑book tradition. Though conceived to accompany George A. Romero’s film of the same name, Creepshow stands on its own as a self‑consciously nostalgic pastiche—a loving pastiche—of EC Comics of the 1950s, filtered through King’s … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Creepshow by Stephen King
The New Renaissance Mindset 