The world of “Game of Thrones” may be more about dragons, swords and incredibly stunted social and technological development (really, 8,000 years of history and nobody has decided that there must be something better than chamber pots?), but it has its zombies too. Sort of. We’ve never been sticklers for definitions around here.

When a White Walker, a monstrous race from the Lands of Always Winter (Mr Martin writes good books but is really bad at naming places), kills somebody they sometimes return as bestial wights. Like zombies they’re kind of slow, kind of stupid and kind of indestructible. Unlike zombies they really don’t mind taking a shot to the brain: they can only be killed by fire.

So, as the show winds down its fourth season, we celebrate reanimating the dead and making them do your dirty work. Admit it: if you could, you probably would.

We continue our comparisons of Walking Dead: the Comic to Walking Dead: the TV Show. We’re probably getting into spoiler territory here, but dammit, the comic is 10 years old. People die in it; like all the time.

Here’s GAR. He’s from the fifth issue of “The Walking Dead”, from February 2004, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore.

GAR was so worried about dating again. He had only lost his wife a short while earlier; she having taken a hatchet to the face just a few months prior. His friends all told him to “get back on the horse,” but was he ready? He wasn’t the kind of guy that women were normally attracted to. His left eye socket was full of clotted blood and puss. Ever since he coughed up his epiglottis, he had noticeable problem breath. He was bald. What woman would want him?

Amy was young, vibrant and beautiful. She was maybe half his age and totally out of his league. Could she love a former man like him? Would she be able to see past his faults into man he knew could be with her? He had only one move to try; if he could find the courage to use it.

He tore out her throat with his teeth.

The connection was electric; she responded instantly! “YEARGH,” she shouted! She shouted, “YEARGH” for him – it almost made his heart beat again! Then Shane shot him in the face.

We continue our comparisons of Walking Dead: the Comic to Walking Dead: the TV Show. Bear with us.

In the comic version Rick and Shane come across a zombie eating a deer carcass and soberly discuss whether or not the meat would be any good should they take it. They decide not to risk it and stoically dispatch the zombie.

The TV version is a little more dramatic and combines several scenes from the comic with the introduction of eventual fan-favorite, Daryl Dixon. After hearing Carl screaming, Rick, Shane and several others run to his aid. They find our featured shambler gorging himself on sweet, sweet venison. The group starts beating him, ineffectively, in a graphic display of their inexperience. Dale finally delivers a decapitating blow with an ax.

Emerging from the bushes, Daryl spooks the group. He’d been tracking the wounded, and now wasted, deer. Like a force of nature he moves through the scene chattering incessantly. He finally chastises the group for leaving Deer Zombie’s head alive as he puts a bolt through it. It’s a near perfect introduction. In his initial 30 seconds on camera we see nearly facet of his character. He’s gruff and tactless, but also concerned about the group and willing to listen. He’s devoted to his brother. He’s incredibly resourceful, but lacks social tools.

One of the reasons that Daryl has become so beloved is that his character has grown, but not changed, over the course of the show. Where other characters have has massive shifts in behavior and motivation, Daryl is a rock. Thank you, Deer Zombie, for introducing us to him!

We continue our comparisons of Walking Dead: the Comic to Walking Dead: the TV Show. It’s still difficult coming up with a clever zombie every week, but we’re thinking we can milk this for a few more weeks at least.

Here’s GUH, from the third issue of “The Walking Dead”, from December 2003, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore.

He’s a sharp, erudite, upwardly mobile fella with a lot going for him; or maybe a lot gone from him. He considers himself something of a “foodie” and immediately offers to share his bounty of gnawed deer carotid with his brand new friend, Shane and Rick.

They refuse. GUH, however, is nonplussed. Modernist cuisine just isn’t for everyone.

We’re going to take a break from our “Walking Dead” love-fest and bring you the story of Clairvius Narcisse. Clairvius is widely considered to be the first documented case of actual zombism.

On May 02, 1962 was pronounced dead by two American-trained physicians at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelle, Haiti. He had been ill for several weeks before. His sister attended the body and he was interred at a local cemetery shortly thereafter. However 18 years later Narcisse (or somebody claiming to be him) wandered into his village. He was able to convince his family and friends that of his identity.

Narcisse claimed that he was completely aware of his surroundings and lucid while he was pronounced dead and during the burial proceedings, but was unable to move or react. Shortly after his burial an evil “bokor”, or sorcerer, dug him up and revived him as a zombie slave. Forced to work for two years on a sugar plantation he escaped and wandered the country. Convinced that his brother had arranged for his zombification, Narcisse only returned home once he learned of his death.

Canadian scientist Wade Davis investigated the story and believes that the zombie experience can be explained via the use of various toxins. One that inflicts a death-like, comatose state on the victim and others used to keep the zombie in a tractable, trance state. While his work is controversial and has some valid criticisms his ideas see support from other cultures as well.

We couldn’t find any information about Narcisse’s death or current whereabouts (if still alive he would be 92 years-old now) but dead, alive or someplace in-between: this week is all for you, Clarivius!

We continue our comparisons of zombies from Walking Dead: the Comic to Walking Dead: the TV Show! Following up last weeks look at the comic’s GUK GLAKK here’s the TV equivalent, Bicycle Zombie.

Rick wakes in the hospital with no idea that he’s slept through the end of the world. He leaves the hospital confused and in shock. Just as in the comic, this is the first zombie Rick meets that’s significantly decomposed. Just as in the comic, the zombie makes an honest attempt to have a nice conversation with Rick. Just as in the comic, Rick steals her bicycle.

Just as in the comic, Rick comes back a week later and puts a bullet through her head. Rick can be kind of a jerk sometimes, uh?

We enjoyed our first comparison of zombies from Walking Dead: the Comic to Walking Dead: the TV Show so much that we’re going to make something of habit of it for the next few weeks. Or until we get bored. (Besides, after more than a year, it’s getting really difficult coming up with a clever zombie every week.)

Here we see the first seriously decomposed zombie that Rick ever sees from the very first issue of  “The Walking Dead”, from October 2003, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore. He,or maybe she – it’s hard to tell – introduces himself as “GUK GLAKK”. GUK has a short, one-sided conversation with Rick before the former cop steals his bicycle and rides away.

GUK would spend the next week or so wondering what he said that made the nice man ignore him and take his bike. He would lie eternally awake day and night running through the encounter over and over in his maggoty memory. Should he have really started the conversation with “GUH”? Was that too needy; too soon? And following it up with “GAR” – really what was he thinking?!

He worried over the entire exchange endlessly. That is, of course, until Rick stopped by on his way out of town and put a bullet through GUK’s head.

You may be ready to call shenanigans on us because, as you remember, we celebrated Jesus as Zombie of the Week last year. Well, apparently this Mormon Jesus is a different guy altogether!

This rabbit hole goes pretty damn deep, like China from Albuquerque deep. Not being theologians – or truly interested – we just got the gist. Apparently, the main argument revolves around unreconcilable doctrinal changes. One side says that Jesus is a god, all by his lonesome, while the other says that Jesus is a part of god, in an “I’m my own grandpa” kind of way. Mormon Jesus also spent a lot of time in upstate NY and was reportedly pretty racist. There’s also something about whether he had a bunch of wives and kids, whether Mary was a person or a god and, depending on who you ask, a bunch of stuff about other planets.

What both sides completely agree on is that both Jesus’s (and, we’re assuming, any of the other ones that may be out there) were zombies. They both died, they both reanimated later and they both want your brains.

So, to be as inclusive as possible, today we’re going to be celebrating the one that’s a god. Or maybe the one that’s not… it’s confusing. In any case, which ever one we did last year, this year we’re doing the other one. The Mormon one.

Since we celebrated UUNGH, the first zombie seen in the Walking Dead comics, last week, we decided it made perfect sense to celebrate the first zombie seen in the television version this week: Bunny Slipper Zombie Girl.

The pre-credit flash-forward shows a migratory Rick stopping at a desolate gas station clogged with abandoned vehicles, campsites and rumors of former habitation. The tension builds as he approaches and is disappointed to find no more gas available. As he turns to leave he hears a noise and drops to his belly.

From under the car he gets his first glimpse at Bunny Slipper Zombie Girl bunny slippers shuffling slowly past. He sees a small hand descend to retrieve a stuffed animal (which still seems odd for a zombie) and rises to see a small girl shambling away from him. He calls out, she turns and sees him. She rushes to introduce herself with teeth and he shoots her in the head.

As she falls backward and hits the pavement with a meaty bounce it was our first indication that this wasn’t going to be a watered down, sanitized version of our beloved comic: this was going to be the real deal. Oddly enough, Bunny Slipper Zombie Girl (played by then 10-year old Addy Miller), is listed as “Summer” in IMDB, but is uncredited in the show itself. To us she’ll always be Bunny Slipper Zombie Girl.

The fourth season of “The Walking Dead” was amazing. Thrills, chills, spills and all of the character development that a greedy fat-man like me could hope for. As we hunker down to wait for the beginning of season five, it seemed natural to pay homage to the very first zombie the very first Rick ever laid eyes on.

After being gut-shot by an escaped convict our hero, Rick Grimes, wakes up confused and alone in a hospital bed. He has no idea how long he’s been out but finally drags himself out of bed, dresses and tentatively strikes out to explore. Finding nobody and coming upon a mauled corpse does little to ease his mind. Coming finally the cafeteria he finds it boarded closed from the outside. Doing what nobody should ever, ever, do he removes the obstacle and goes inside.

That’s when he meets UUNGH and several dozen of his closest friends.

UUNGH, as seen in this panel, introduces himself. He then attempts to educate Rick regarding the new, “you’re food” rules of etiquette, but finds him a less than attentive pupil. After a brief discussion, one that ends with the accidental near decapitation of UUNGH, Rick decides to try his luck outside.

This comic, “The Walking Dead” issue number one, from October 2003, written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore, started the revolution and UUNGH was there to see it. For two-and-half pages, at least.