I wasn’t amazed by it, but I was impressed. After reading these comments, I find myself wanting to defend Dead Patrol.

Logic this and missile that… Come on, let’s try some suspended disbelief… Let’s leave the nitpicking to virgins who still live with their parents.

I’m not a professional writer, but I do know that an unhealthy preoccupation with technical details can take away from the overall narrative and the development of characters and themes. I hope, and suspect, that the creators of Dead Patrol don’t let some people’s obsessive need for “logic” influence the natural (dear I say organic) development of their story.

1. It takes a lot of authorization to launch a nuclear missile. There are passcodes and things built into the system to prevent us from accidentally cauterizing Russia.

2. Even if you can launch a nuclear missile, it takes a lot of effort to aim one. Our ICBMs use technology that’s something like forty years old – you can’t just boot up NukeOS and change the target location. And there’s a good chance most of the people who know how to do that have been eaten.

3. You could, conceivably, take the warhead out of an ICBM and put it onto another missile that you *could* aim and fire more easily. The problems here are that such missiles tend to have shorter range, and they’re not designed to carry the warhead types in question. There are engineering difficulties which may not be easy to solve in a post-apocalyptic scenario.

I’m not going to say more about the series until I see more. But the missile issue came up so frequently that I had to address it.

One last thing: we don’t actually know if zombies would migrate out of the cities if they don’t find food. All the behavioral precedents we have are fictional.