Mixed Pickles - the Book log 2012: Zombies

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Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - Walking Dead 13 : Too Far Gone

0 comments Posted by Mike at 04:52

Rick cracks up, but even in his worst moments still proves himself a leader.

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - Walking Dead 12 -

0 comments Posted by Mike at 04:51

A new home beckons - but is eveything in the garden as lovely as it is painted?

Rick continues to feel the pressure (and the isolation) of leadership in this increasingly compelling series.

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - Walking Dead 11 - "Fear the Hunter"

0 comments Posted by Mike at 04:27

I worry about Rick. How much longer can he hold it all together?

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - Walking Dead 10 - "What We Become"

0 comments Posted by Mike at 15:37

We become... addicted!

I try and keep away. After all, there are only six more volumes to go and then I go on to the six-monthly schedule that the comic publication dictates. But I can't wait. I have to see where this is going. In this volume, Rick becomes more and more aware of what the responsibility of running the group has done to him. And others are reaching their own conclusions. And one word: herd!

Unputdownability : Like a junkie with a limited supply, I want to ration it out, but I just can't hold back. Another one-sitting volume.

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - The Walking Dead Volume 9

0 comments Posted by Mike at 05:13

"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.

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn - The Walking Dead Volume 8,

0 comments Posted by Mike at 06:16

Don't come to this expecting the see all the characters that you know and love from the TV series: this is a different "Walking Dead" universe (see "Dexter") where just a few of the characters are the same, and some TV chums are no longer with us.

He's keeping an eye on you

Our heroes are ensconsed in their comfortable camp within a deserted prison. However, their interaction with the Commander and his followers is about to have violent repercussions. His description of their actions to his own community inflames them and sets them on a path of vengeance which has terrible repercussions.

I'm not going to say any more. If you have been reading this series, you'll have this one lined up waiting to go. If you have only watched the TV show, then start with Volume One (it will seem comfortable familiar) and then go on from there into a complex story less about zombies and more about how people cope and interact under extreme duress.

Unputdownability : Yes, I know my dinner's getting cold, but...