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it was too little too late. The city fell into turmoil, bodies littered the streets, and the casualties began to rise. Key sectors of the city infrastructure and government were plunged into anarchy. The "scratchers," named for the tell-tale self-mutilation they perform on their bodies and faces, made the streets sticky with shed blood.
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The power void left by a failing city government was the ideal ground for the
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photography instead of standard single-exposures, which the creators chose to create a flat, hyper-realized look of a comic book. This required three separate exposures for each image. According to Gibson, this requirement was difficult for action shots. According to the creators,
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described Volume One as "good zombie fun. The dialogue is painfully bad and the plot moves a little too slowly, but the photographs make everything a little extra creepy." A blog for the
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safety zone. Those who could adhered to their rule for the chance at a new life, and their numbers grew. Those who chose to blaze their own trail saw their numbers dwindle.
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