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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
I'm actually starting to get into this series and enjoy it, despite my natural antipathy to the format.
Wow. This is the most brutal volume of the Walking Dead I've yet to read. Yeech!
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The treatment of Michonne in this one. Yikes.
*Trigger Warning*
I just don't think her being raped was necessary.
*Trigger Warning*
I just don't think her being raped was necessary.
I was so unprepared for this emotionally. While the previous volumes were full of angst to the highest degree, I feel... distraught. Nauseous. A little like I need to cry. The turn things have taken is so dark, but at this point I truly can't say whether I think it was for the best. When the Governor cut Rick's hand off, when he raped Michonne, when he sat in front of the dozens of heads he'd collected... I wished we could just go back to the prison, and be as cosy and domestic as a zombie apocalypse possibly can be. And then that happened, and it was admittedly dull. So Hershel nearly had the generator going. Woo hoo. So Carol is pretty out and out crazy and wants a polygamous marriage to Lori and Rick. Weird but... Michonne. Rick. (Admittedly, I loved Andrea just plain forgetting she's meant to be a mom to the twins now. Ha.)
I take back what I said about not "getting" Michonne in the last volume. She's brave and fierce and badass and I hope she gets the opportunity to tear the Governor limb from limb, agonisingly slowly. I really really like the Rick-Governor parallel that the doctor drew out. You can really appreciate how the paths they started on were similar, and in a way I think this was needed after Rick shooting Dexter. I also found it interesting how Andrea seemed to tacitly approve, practising her marksmanship up on the watchtower in case anyone came along to take "their" prison. I'm so worried about them all though, and I predict that I'm going to be a wreck before the day is through (because there's now zero chance of me getting anything productive done today. I'm going to be reading until my eyes fall out.)
I take back what I said about not "getting" Michonne in the last volume. She's brave and fierce and badass and I hope she gets the opportunity to tear the Governor limb from limb, agonisingly slowly. I really really like the Rick-Governor parallel that the doctor drew out. You can really appreciate how the paths they started on were similar, and in a way I think this was needed after Rick shooting Dexter. I also found it interesting how Andrea seemed to tacitly approve, practising her marksmanship up on the watchtower in case anyone came along to take "their" prison. I'm so worried about them all though, and I predict that I'm going to be a wreck before the day is through (because there's now zero chance of me getting anything productive done today. I'm going to be reading until my eyes fall out.)
LOVE IT!
I am so glad that I pushed through that last one, and gave the series another shot. This one is AWESOME!
The storyline focuses on the favourites, and barely mentions the background characters, of which there is an abundance - although I suppose Kirkman needs to have a little zombie fodder lying around, right? I thoroughly expect a few of them to become a delicious snack food in volume 6.
I am so glad that I pushed through that last one, and gave the series another shot. This one is AWESOME!
The storyline focuses on the favourites, and barely mentions the background characters, of which there is an abundance - although I suppose Kirkman needs to have a little zombie fodder lying around, right? I thoroughly expect a few of them to become a delicious snack food in volume 6.
Not as entertaining as the previous instalments, I feel this is largely setting up a longer storyline with a new ‘big bad’ by laying down the groundwork of hostility and suspicion.
As always, it’s the characters that intrigue more than the zombies, and the belief that nobody should be making themselves comfortable. Things can change in the blink of an eye, and the overall tension that permeates each page helps to increase this feeling of anxiousness. You never know when, or how, a character is going to die.
This is the last comic I have (the first 5 comics I found in a charity shop for 25p each!) but I’m sorely tempted to see this through to the bittersweet end. It’s definitely kept me more enthralled than the tv series, which started to sour after the groups arrival in Woodbury and too much deviation from a solid script in the comics.
As always, it’s the characters that intrigue more than the zombies, and the belief that nobody should be making themselves comfortable. Things can change in the blink of an eye, and the overall tension that permeates each page helps to increase this feeling of anxiousness. You never know when, or how, a character is going to die.
This is the last comic I have (the first 5 comics I found in a charity shop for 25p each!) but I’m sorely tempted to see this through to the bittersweet end. It’s definitely kept me more enthralled than the tv series, which started to sour after the groups arrival in Woodbury and too much deviation from a solid script in the comics.