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This chapter finds Rick, Glenn and Michonne still imprisoned in Woodbury by the Governor, but with the help of a guy named Martinez they escape and they take with them the doctor and his female assistant. The doctor tho doesn’t make it. He gets bitten by zombies while exiting the city. The rest of them arrive to the prison just fine, but before they do so, Michonne stayed behind for a bit to brutally torture the Governor. When they arrive at they prison they find out that it’s filled with zombies and that one of the group got bitten. All together kill the zombies and clean out the prison. After they do so Martinez leaves to go tell the people at Woodbury about the prison, but Rick catches up to him and kills him. Almost at the same time Glenn proposes to his girlfriend who agrees to marry him.
This was by far the chapter with the most action and violence so far. There were many fights with zombies and a lot of running and killing. The scene where Michonne tortures the Governor is extremely graphic and hard to watch. I think that that’s the main reason why Kirkman made the Governor so hateable. So that when people read this they don’t feel at all sorry for him, something that’d also make them dislike Michonne. That being said, while I’m not at all a fan of violence, I hate to admit that I kinda enjoyed this scene, because as I said, Kirkman made the Governor as hateable as possible, so it was a true pleasure to see him getting brutally tortured. After all the torture she went through and after she herself tortured the Governor, Michonne is very psychologically unstable. She talked to herself before, but now she seems to be doing it more often and she’s closing up to herself. Also, she seems to be more disturbed by what she did, than by what was done to her, which I find very interesting. Another character who goes through a lot emotionally and psychologically in this chapter is Rick.
He seems to be very worried about how this whole situation has changed him and he’s scared from how easy it is for him now to kill another living human. Also, his son is very worried that he doesn’t love him, because he’s constantly leaving. All these things are very depressing and pessimistic, but fortunately there’s a more optimistic part in this chapter. Glenn’s relationship is very fan to read and compared to everything else, it’s also very heartwarming. It’s a little spark of hope in this dark sadness that fills this chapter. My biggest problem with this chapter tho isn’t the sadness, nor how pessimistic it is, I have no problem with any of that. My biggest problem is that the dialogues aren’t very well written. Most dialogues are very cheesy, contain a lot of exposition and honestly they just feel unnatural and unrealistic. I have a feeling that Kirkman at that point started focusing more on the action than on the dialogues.
The artwork is very good in this chapter. The action is all very exciting and the characters’ faces are very expressive and easy to tell apart. Also, I really love the way the zombies are drawn. They are a bit disgusting, but I think that’s appropriate.
Overall, this was a good chapter, but it’s probably my least favorite so far. All that violence just isn’t for me and the unrealistic dialogues annoyed me a lot. ù
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