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The Walking Dead #93 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Is this promise of a new colony a blessing or a threat? Five Things: 1. How do you know who to trust?  - I really do like how TWD continues to be about everything BUT [...]

The Walking Dead #92 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: New stuff pops up, but is this going to be a threat or an opportunity? Five things:  1. Glad to see something intriguing happen! - I was really hard on the last issue of TWD.  The [...]

The Walking Dead #91 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Life drags on inside the Arlington enclave. Five Things: [SPOILER WARNING] 1. What a bummer resolution to the Rick-Andrea situation!  Really?  Issue #90 ends with Rick and Andrea having a passionate kiss and then we [...]

The Walking Dead #90 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (penciler/inker), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: How will Rick respond to the plot against him. Five things:  As always, this is a FULL SPOILERS review…. 1). This was a really “meh” story cycle. This climax and aftermath to the plot against [...]

The Walking Dead #89 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Will the Alexandria survivors accept Rick & Gang as the leaders of the settlement? SPOILER WARNING What’s Good: It’s nice that Kirkman isn’t screwing around with the newest threat.  There have been times in the [...]

The Walking Dead #88 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letterer) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Life goes on in the Alexandria compound now that someone has woken up from a coma. What’s Good: As with all Walking Dead reviews I do, this review contains SPOILERS…. Honestly, there isn’t a whole [...]

The Walking Dead #87 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (creator & writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The survivors of the Alexandria compound set about rebuilding their walls and their lives. What’s Good: [The top portion of this review is spoiler-free.  I'll have discussion of the big "Oh crap!" spoiler [...]

The Walking Dead #86 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The survivors reestablish their status quo in the wake of the big zombie attack from several issues ago. What’s Good: Robert Kirkman is a master of the slow burn.  Every story cycle he starts out [...]

The Walking Dead #86 – PREVIEW

THE WALKING DEAD #86 story ROBERT KIRKMAN art & cover CHARLIE ADLARD & CLIFF RATHBURN How do we deal with what comes next? RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

The Walking Dead #85 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The humans clean up after laying a massive smack down on the zombies in last month’s issue. [SPOILER WARNING ] What’s Good: Comics can’t be breakneck all the time.  The Walking Dead is a marathon [...]

The Walking Dead #84 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: After the shocking events of the last issue, the survivors need to man-up. What’s Good: [SPOILER WARNING] If you thought that this issue would continue the bloodbath we got last month, you would be wrong. [...]

The Walking Dead #83 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (grays), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: As the walled enclave turns into a zombie-filled death-trap, Rick & Gang make a break for it. What’s Good: [Spoilers ahead.  If you haven't read the issue, just skim to the bottom, see the "grade" and [...]

The Walking Dead #82 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Zombies are breaking into the safe little enclave. What’s Good: [SPOILER WARNING] It’s amazing how an issue like this– that features the first full-on zombie swarm since around issue #58 or so– has so many [...]

The Walking Dead #81 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Attack of the zombies OR “You gotta sink those fence posts in concrete!” What’s Good: [This review contains spoilers] Kirkman has been teasing the hell out of us readers for ~6 months with this whole [...]

The Walking Dead #80 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Russ Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: No Way Out begins.  Will the zombies get a snack? What’s Good: This issue was a bit of a tease.  [SPOILER warning]  The thing that makes this comic series and book so special is that [...]

The Walking Dead #79 – Review

B y: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlies Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Russ Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: As life passes in the sleepy little enclave, danger is closing in. What’s Good: The tension was just palpable in this issue.  It’s hard to discuss without getting a little SPOILERIFFIC so you’ve been [...]

The Walking Dead #78 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones) & Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Chaos comes knocking at the door of the walled enclave, setting a very bad sequence of events in motion. [Spoilers lie below...] The Walking Dead is another one of those series that never flings out a stinker, ho-hum [...]

The Walking Dead #77 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones) & Russ Wooton (letters) The Story: An issue for cleaning up emotional baggage combined with a reminder that the zombie wasteland is still a pretty scary place. What’s Good: [Spoiler warning] If you follow the teasers released by Image, you know that TWD is [...]

The Walking Dead #76 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (grays), Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: After beginning to crack up last issue, what will become of Rick Grimes. Grade: B+ [SPOILER WARNING] What’s Good: Whenever I review a comic that I am scoring highly, there is this huge temptation to talk about what happened.  This [...]

The Walking Dead #75 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones) & Russ Wooton (letters) The Story: Is Rick Grimes… Our hero… Suitable for decent company anymore?  Or has he been so screwed up by his experiences leading a group of survivors through a zombie-infested countryside that he’ll never be the man he once was? [...]

The Walking Dead #73 – Review

The Story: Our plucky band of survivors continues to settle into an enclave near Washington, D.C., but are things too good to be true?  Or are the survivors too warped by their experiences on the outside to even know what “normal” is anymore? [NOTE ABOUT SPOILERS: Knowing how many people read The Walking Dead in [...]

The Walking Dead #68 – Review

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (pencils & inks), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: A mysterious new character, Aaron, makes our group a utopian offer.  But can he be trusted? What’s Good: With this issue, Kirkman begins his next big arc and it looks to be a great one, if [...]

The Walking Dead #67 – Review

By Robert Kirkman (Writer), Charlie Adlard (Pencils & Inks), and Cliff Rathburn (Gray Tones) The Story: Rick has a heart to heart talk with his son and the scientist reveals a little more about himself. What’s Good And What’s Not So Good: Despite being a slow, slightly boring read as a whole, The Walking Dead [...]

The Walking Dead #66 – Review

By Robert Kirkman (Writer), Charlie Adlard (Pencils & Inks), and Cliff Rathburn (Gray Tones) Some Thoughts Before The Review: It’s hard to believe that the “Fear the Hunters” arc ends with The Walking Dead #66. While it’s been really entertaining, I had initially expected it to run for longer than five issues considering how hard [...]

The Walking Dead #65 – Review

By Robert Kirkman (Writer), Charlie Adlard (Pencils & Inks), and Cliff Rathburn (Gray Tones) Some Thoughts Before The Review: While zombie stuff is definitely welcome, a showdown between humans in The Walking Dead always manages to ratchet up the intensity another few notches. I’m assuming the latest standoff will be no different. The Story: Rick [...]

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