The Walking Dead creator explains the 'leap' to cannibalism.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Deluxe #68 In the world of The Walking Dead, survivors of the zombie apocalypse don’t only have to worry about their flesh being consumed by Walkers, but also their fellow humans, as people resort to cannibalism on a fairly regular basis throughout the series.
While that’s been met with a certain level of fan criticism, the creator of The Walking Dead explains exactly why cannibalism is such a commonplace. The Walking Dead primarily follows Rick Grimes from the moment he woke up from a coma and found himself in a post-apocalyptic wasteland seeming straight out of Revelations, to the time of his tragic yet heroic death. As Rick Grimes fights for his life in this hellish new world, he encounters warlords, roving gangs, and - of course - zombies. But one of the most disturbing aspects of the apocalypse is how deranged seemingly normal and trustworthy survivors really were, and what they were willing to do to their fellow man in order to survive. This, of course, is in reference to the aforementioned cannibalism, as a striking number of people decided to hunt and eat humans as opposed to local wildlife and/or livestock. So, the question 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 choose to eat other people rather than finding another source of food? Well, Robert Kirkman finally explains why. The Walking Dead: Humans Were Easier To Trick Than Animals Were To Hunt In The Walking Dead Deluxe #68 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, readers get the chance to enjoy a full-color reprint of the original The Walking Dead issue. Not only that, but these Deluxe issues also include Robert Kirkman answering questions that fans have asked him about the series over the years. In this issue, Kirkman decided to finally tackle the ‘cannibalism criticism’, and squash the complaint once and for all. The fan who wrote Kirkman had a hard time accepting how quickly people resorted to cannibalism, to which Robert Kirkman replied: They’re in a largely rural area, where there aren’t a lot of houses. There was a lot of looting during the early days of this worldwide catastrophe. So stores are ransacked and when people went into the cities for protection - they took food with them. So yeah, food is scarce in this area. And hunting enough game to keep a group fed on a regular basis… is difficult, especially if you’ve never hunted before. That opposed to just being able to trick someone into coming with you and killing them later… I know it’s a hard leap to cannibalism, but these people were starving. With this answer, Kirkman fully acknowledges why fans would have criticisms for this ‘leap to cannibalism’, but he also perfectly explains why it’s actually not that big of a ‘leap’ at all. There was no food in any store after just the first few days of the initial outbreak, meaning people had to start hunting and foraging for their food almost immediately. Even people who have hunted their entire lives usually aren’t able to do so with such regular success that they can feed their entire families, or entire communities. 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 probably wouldn’t even happen in the first place, as a lot of these people haven’t been hunting their entire lives, with some never having hunted before at all. No food, no hunting skills , and a loosening grip on sanity due to total societal collapse and extreme hunger. Plus, tricking other humans - who were also desperate and hungry - was simply easier than trying to hunt game, making pure convenience another factor in the choice to become a cannibal. It's sick and twisted, but after Robert Kirkman's explanation, it actually makes a lot of sense why cannibalism is so common in The Walking Dead.
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