The thing about WWZ is that it is one of the few zombie fiction that actually attempts to consider the grand scale logistics a zombie apocalypse would entail. There was very little zombie fiction at the time that considered this, and very little since. Reading chapters like the one with the Air Force pilot discussing her E&E training, or the Army veteran describing the radical changes in US military tactics and doctrine, or the Sinclair grandson describing the US war economy in the safe zone were a fucking blast considering most zombie fiction restricted and still restricts itself to "oh look the dumb selfish asshole wants to lock the twelve-year-olds outside to get eaten alive for no reason again".
A couple other banger chapters off the top of my head are the Big Pharma exec who made billions selling a fake vaccine (O_O) and the Chinese submariners who go nomad and briefly a boat society at Fiji selling their electricity
A similarly good examination of what it would actually mean to rebuild society that has slightly better politics is the later volumes of The Walking Dead graphic novel series. Late in that series after a major time skip the Alexandria alliance essentially do communism without saying as much.
The thing about WWZ is that it is one of the few zombie fiction that actually attempts to consider the grand scale logistics a zombie apocalypse would entail. There was very little zombie fiction at the time that considered this, and very little since. Reading chapters like the one with the Air Force pilot discussing her E&E training, or the Army veteran describing the radical changes in US military tactics and doctrine, or the Sinclair grandson describing the US war economy in the safe zone were a fucking blast considering most zombie fiction restricted and still restricts itself to "oh look the dumb selfish asshole wants to lock the twelve-year-olds outside to get eaten alive for no reason again".
A couple other banger chapters off the top of my head are the Big Pharma exec who made billions selling a fake vaccine (O_O) and the Chinese submariners who go nomad and briefly a boat society at Fiji selling their electricity
A similarly good examination of what it would actually mean to rebuild society that has slightly better politics is the later volumes of The Walking Dead graphic novel series. Late in that series after a major time skip the Alexandria alliance essentially do communism without saying as much.