Rob Draugr: 7 things to do before the new season of the walking dead starts

Okay. Season Two is now definitively over. So amid the speculation, piecemeal leekage of infomation about the new season and impending buiild up to the the premiere episode in october, what in the name of George A Romero do fans like me, you, everybody do in the means time? Well here's a bunch of ideas I'm going to look into whilst I wait for my fix of zombie beat downs:


1. Watch both seasons back to back, either alone or with friends, relatives or an animal of some description. And why not? When is there not a good time to look back, look for clues, minute details you may have missed or simply to watch the glorious walker bashing that takes place over two fantastic seasons? Exactly, there isn't much of an excuse not to!

2. Read all the comic books. If you have already, then re-read them, or if you haven't, then I suggest taking a look. Not only does it weave a different tale to the TV show (In some respects, in others both parallel one another very closely) it is highly engrossing, terrifying, heart wrenchingly brilliant. The artwork by Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard can be visceral, gorey, desolate, stark, frightening, realistic, gritty and sometimes (not very much, but it does happen!) heart warming! Robert Kirkman's 90+ issues to date are a compelling narrative and what with the release of the new novel, Rise of The Governor, surely reading the source material that started it all has it's benefits. So go do it already. I'll wait for you to read them, then come back to this list. Go on.

3. Okay, so you've read the comics, and the novel, welcome back back. Lost for something to do now? Well you could always do what I did and make a  Zombie survival kit present for you or a loved one like I did this last Christmas.

This was both fun to do and was very well recieved. I have no idea how I'm going to top it this year, so if you want to be generous and give me some suggestions I would welcome them!!! To see the full article on this, head here.

4. Alright, you've painted some eggs to look like zombies and grown cress out of their heads for hair, and you've used up all your best Crayola wax crayons drawing zombie pictures and throw in some Twinkies and Oreo's and Mountain Dew "Whiteout" into the survival kit and now you're bored. You've done a good deed for a loved one, it's still not October, so what the fuck now? Well you could always play the Walking Dead video game or another equally zombie related video game? If you are the type to play Call Of Duty, then you can always whack on the awesome "Call of the Dead" zombie expansion for Black Op's, literally the only aspect of COD I liked. Then there's obviously the Left 4 Dead games, Dead Rising series and Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption. All perfectly good zombie games. All resplendent with shooting, punching, pickaxing, stabbing, chopping, shooting, exploding and shooting of said zombies within. Except perhaps the new Walking Dead game, which apparently is going to focus more on the Character rather than the explicit killing of zombies. Bold move boys.

5. Like guns? Like shooting things? Like zombies? Got nothing to do whilst the Walking dead is on hiatous? Well combine your love of them all and go to a shooting range and blow the living/dead crap out of some zombie targets? Seeing as how I live in Britain, we can't really go to gun ranges, we have paint balling and Laser Quest (Tag or however you lucky American's say it, with your AK's and your MP5's and your Howitzers) and nothing really we can go shoot live ammunition at, but ah well, we have the following...

6. A zombie mall experience day!! yes, for the measly sum of £119 you can go experience life inside a mall infested with dead heads, go on missions, have police training and generally enjoy the best part of a zombie apocalypse, yes that's right, looting! This is available for a limited time only over here, through Wish.co.uk so if you're English, have a spare few pennies in this time of econimic downturn and upheaval and need some practice before the impending zombie apocalypse, then this is the thing for you! Add it to your wishlist!! Before it's too late...

7. Finally, why not participate in a zombie walk, see things from the other side? I mean you could always buy brains from a butcher and see what life is like over the hedge, nomming down on brains and what ever! In Birmingham, UK there is an annual Zombie Walk every year, with it's popularity growing and growing! Why not set one up? Go forth and scare the shit out of your town/village/hamlet/swamp/dessert and gather up a horde of zombies and go on the rampage!

I'm sure after doing all the following, it will help kill some time before October comes and the Walking Dead restarts for us all to enjoy! Any other ideas, drop me a comment or tweet at me!