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A helicopter crashes near the prison, so Rick, Michonne and another guy go to see what happened. When they don’t find anyone, dead or alive in the crashed helicopter they look around and they find a city nearby, with a bunch of people. This city is controlled by a guy who calls himself the Governor. When Rick, Michonne and that other guy arrive there, they take them in and torture them so that they can find where they came from, in order to go there and get everything they want. Back at the prison, everyone is very worried about the three people who left and Carol says to Lori that she wants to marry her and Rick. Lori react very poorly to that and that damages their relationship a lot.
This was a very good chapter and many things happen in it. For starters, we get introduced to the character of the Governor. Robert Kirkman clearly tried as hard as he could to make him one of the most hateable characters ever written. He cuts off Rick’s arm, he repeatedly rapes and tortures Michonne, he keeps in his house the heads of the people he kills or has killed and he looks at them like they are tv, he also keeps his daughter who has turned into a zombie and he’s feeding her with people he kills, he generally feeds people to the zombies, so that they’ll be calm (the zombies, not the people) and he also makes people fight to death surrounded by zombies, in order to get the inhabitants of his city satisfied. I guess I can understand the logic behind that last one (I certainly don’t approve it tho). He does what they did back in ancient Rome. If you provide food and entertainment for the people they’ll be satisfied and they won’t try to overthrow you.
While that has some logic, it’s still absolutely terrible and it’s been proven from history that after some time that tactic stops working. We learn from a doctor that before the zombie apocalypse, he used to be a good man, so I think that he’s a very good example of how this terrible situation can change people for the worse. In his character we can also see how Rick could’ve become if he wasn’t careful and if he was a bit more of a psychopath. In this chapter, Rick is way more calm and it’s obvious that without the stress of leadership he’s able to function much better. While I love Rick’s character, I have to say that his wife, Lori, really annoys me. I can understand the logic behind her actions and reactions, but I still don’t like her. I don’t know if Kirkman intended to write her as an unlikable character, but I think that she really is. In this chapter there’s a lot of action and it’s very well written, but equally well written are all the dialogues and monologues, although from what I’ve read so far I think that Kirkman’s true talent is writing captivating stories and creating very tense situations.
I love the artwork in this volume. The artists have a very good sense of how to properly “direct” the panels. The angles and points of view are always very interesting and work very well. Also, all the faces are very expressive and all the action scenes are awesome.
Overall, this was one of the best chapters so far. Some parts were hard to read, because of how horrible were the things the Governor did, but it was still amazing. It was all very depressing, pessimistic, stressful and captivating and I loved it!
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