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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
Holy mackerel. (I'm not sure I've ever used that term before, but it seems an appropriate time to start). The Walking Dead is getting unreal! The Best Defense is dark. Very dark.
It was almost a forewarning when Carl tells Lori not to worry about Rick, because he always comes back okay. I thought about that for a bit. Extended across however many books, that would get boring. When would something happen to him? Turns out, we need not wait long.
A helicopter crashes within driving distance from the prison and Glenn, Rick and Michonne go to investigate, complete with riot gear that had been found. Abandoned when they arrive, it is soon clear that someone else beat them to it, but who?
The trio set off to discover the other group surviving in chaos, and stumble across the Governor, in charge of his own little community. They sacrifice strangers to zombies for sport, and are ruthless in their treatment of outsiders. It, in contrast to the main group, is a dictatorship fronted by a madman. Insanity, it is assumable, may have been triggered by what happened to his daughter.
Taken captive and manipulated, the book really takes a darker road. Far darker than I personally thought the books were set to go. Hands are lost without a care, people decapitated and put on display, Glenn even finds himself emotionally manipulated by having to listen to the Governor repeatedly rape Michonne next door.
As said: dark.
And you think, fuck, where does it go from here? It's been realistic so far, and it's been generally safe. Hurdles come from walkers, but now it turns out that their notions of civilisation isn't universal.
Things have changed, and it's crazy. Interesting crazy, but fucked-up-the-world-has-changed crazy.
It was almost a forewarning when Carl tells Lori not to worry about Rick, because he always comes back okay. I thought about that for a bit. Extended across however many books, that would get boring. When would something happen to him? Turns out, we need not wait long.
A helicopter crashes within driving distance from the prison and Glenn, Rick and Michonne go to investigate, complete with riot gear that had been found. Abandoned when they arrive, it is soon clear that someone else beat them to it, but who?
The trio set off to discover the other group surviving in chaos, and stumble across the Governor, in charge of his own little community. They sacrifice strangers to zombies for sport, and are ruthless in their treatment of outsiders. It, in contrast to the main group, is a dictatorship fronted by a madman. Insanity, it is assumable, may have been triggered by what happened to his daughter.
Taken captive and manipulated, the book really takes a darker road. Far darker than I personally thought the books were set to go. Hands are lost without a care, people decapitated and put on display, Glenn even finds himself emotionally manipulated by having to listen to the Governor repeatedly rape Michonne next door.
As said: dark.
And you think, fuck, where does it go from here? It's been realistic so far, and it's been generally safe. Hurdles come from walkers, but now it turns out that their notions of civilisation isn't universal.
Things have changed, and it's crazy. Interesting crazy, but fucked-up-the-world-has-changed crazy.
Wow! Things are really kicked up a notch in volume 5 as compared to the previous volume. Here we met the Governor and Woodbury for the first time in the comics. Let's just say from the instant we meet his character we know he is definitely a bad guy without a doubt and I am looking forward to the character's arc as a villain. There are quite a few elements here that come to play in the tv show as well. Although the comics (and the show) have always been dark and grim, the Governor takes them much farther down the rabbit hole than we've been before!
4.5 stars...
So this one is my least favourite so far simply because some of the character plots were a little annoying with the original cast of characters... Seriously Carol, I'm looking at you.
Overall, the addition of Woodbury and the small cast of characters we've met there so far is pretty good... The Governor is just as much, if not more, of an asshole than in the show, and we still barely know the guy. I mean he keeps his zombified daughter chained to a wall in his apartment and has a shit load of severed heads on the wall...
Overall though, this one was another great continuation of the story. At 5 books in it's still as intriguing as when I started it. And it's still very different from the show.
So this one is my least favourite so far simply because some of the character plots were a little annoying with the original cast of characters... Seriously Carol, I'm looking at you.
Overall, the addition of Woodbury and the small cast of characters we've met there so far is pretty good... The Governor is just as much, if not more, of an asshole than in the show, and we still barely know the guy. I mean he keeps his zombified daughter chained to a wall in his apartment and has a shit load of severed heads on the wall...
Overall though, this one was another great continuation of the story. At 5 books in it's still as intriguing as when I started it. And it's still very different from the show.
The fucking trauma porn against Black people continues. Not to mention the gross dehumanisation of women. I’ve read a lot of books and comics where women are written terribly, but this series takes all of that shit to a whole new and utterly outrageous level. It does nothing but illustrate how much of a misogynist the writer(s) is. There’s being ignorant about women and then there’s hating women, which this franchise is definitely a representation of the latter.