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(Editor's Note: This interview serves as something of a second part of a story that ran at The Huffington Post. Check it out)
Max Brooks is an old school zombie lover -- which is to say that zombies terrified him. He was a child of the George A. Romero zombie, and the nightmares the director's movies caused served as a creative inspiration. Basically, Brooks wrote 2003's "The Zombie Survival Guide" as zombie therapy. He followed up that success with "World War Z" in 2006, and he's been something of the duke of the dead ever since.
Recently, while Hollywood is taking a crack at adapting his work, Brooks has been playing in the comics medium. He wrote the IDW comic "G.I. Joe: Hearts and Minds" and is currently working on "The Extinction Parade," the Avatar Press comic about vampires living in the midst of zombie apocalypse. But Brooks is also a creative force behind "Shadow Walk," a new Legendary Comics graphic novel about a group of soldiers, a scientist and clergyman who investigate the Valley of the Shadow of Hell -- a place that exists in his version of our modern world. I spoke with Brooks at length about "Shadow Walk" over at Huffington Post, but wanted to take a few minutes to chat about zombies with him.
What follows is a brief conversation where Brooks and I discuss the connection of zombies to religion, as well as to the prepper crowd, the longevity of the zombie genre and -- of course -- about George Romero. Please read the first part of our talk, which primarily discusses "Shadow Walk" and pick up the very cool graphic novel (co-created by writer Mark Waid and artist Shane Davis).