Telltale’s The Walking Dead was the game that alerted the wider gaming world to the talents of the now defunct studio. It released at the peak of the TV show’s popularity but borrowed heavily from the aesthetics of Robert Kirkman’s comic, which more than worked to its benefit.
Centre to the game was the relationship between Lee - a prison escapee - and Clementine, a child left behind by her family during the formative days of the zombie apocalypse. Together, they have to fight their way through the wasteland to survive, and it’s one of the most affecting father-daughter relationships ever seen in the medium.
Granted, the ending is a bit sad. Okay, scratch that, extremely traumatising, but that doesn’t take away from how good a dad Lee was. He fought for Clem until the bitter end, and that never-say-die spirit ensured her survival in the next few seasons.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
