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After the death of a certain character at the end of the last chapter, the members of the group of survivors decide to make Rick their leader and he decides that they should move further away from the city. Before they do so tho Rick’s wife announces that she’s pregnant, something that worries almost everyone. When they start moving, while driving, they find a guy named Tyreese, his daughter and her boyfriend. The three of them join the group and all together go in a small abandon town, but after spending a night at one of the houses they realise that the town is filled with zombies and they have to leave quickly. While leaving one of the members of the group, gets killed by zombies, devastating emotionally her husband and kids. Soon after, while hunting, Rick’s son gets shot by a stranger who was hunting as well. All together take him to the farm this stranger was living and the owner of the farm patches him up and let’s them stay there until he gets better. That’s what they do, but things at the farm don’t go very well.
In this volume we start really seeing how this zombie apocalypse has affected everyone. All the characters are in a terrible psychological condition and every moment they are about to break. They also are in desperate need of a romantic companion, so many of the members of the group start hooking up with each other. It’s said by one of them that what he wants is to have sex, but it’s very obvious that what drives the characters into getting together in romantic relationships isn’t horniness, but the need to have someone close to them, so that they won’t have to go through all of this death, destruction and sadness alone. Something that I enjoyed a lot in this chapter is that there isn’t really a lot of action and violence (at least not as much as you’d expect from a title like this).
There are many heated debates and arguments and the action is mostly internal. At some point, in one of these arguments, the owner of the farm that the characters spend some time in raises the ethical question, if it’s right to kill the zombies. He supports that they shouldn’t kill them, because they don’t know what made them that way in the first place and if there’s a cure. That’s something very interesting to think about, but unfortunately the comic doesn’t really give the reader much time to do so, because the answer comes a few dozen pages later, in a far too violent way. Another thing that I liked is that the characters grieve and contrary to many films and comics with a similar concept, it shows that death is nothing to treat lightly and present as entertainment.
The artwork in this chapter is done by a different artist than in the first volume and in my opinion it’s not as good. It’s very similar and it fits well in the story, but it feels a bit lazy and with less details. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not bad at all, but it could’ve been better.
Overall, this was a good chapter. A lot of things happen and some very interesting new characters and ideas are introduced. I don’t think that’s it’s as good as the first one, but it’s certainly very good and enjoyable.
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