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The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
by Robert Kirkman
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.)