Mixed Pickles - the Book log 2012

"HERE WE REMAIN"

They go out walking after midnight...

After the life-changing events in Volume 8, this one is a quieter affair, a time for Rick and his son to establish a new relationship.  Rick's crisis of confidence is not helped by his precarious hold on reality, but he still has the support and companionship of series stalwarts to help him as they meet freshh survivors and embark on a new mission - a trip to Washington in the company of someone who just might hold the key to resolving the whole zombie situation.

It would be easy to regard this as an extended breath-catcher between story arcs, but this is no bad thing.  We need time, as does Rick, to recover from the frenetic events of the previous two volumes, and to appreciate their effects on the travellers.


Unputdownability : A welcome, slower pace than of recent.