Posted on January 25, 2012 by dfstell
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 [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #92, The Walking Dead #92 review, Zombies | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 16, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, Zombies | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 5, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #89, The Walking Dead #89 review, Zombies | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 17, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #88, The Walking Dead #88 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Zombies | 8 Comments »
Posted on July 20, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #87, The Walking Dead #87 review, Zombies | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 30, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #86, The Walking Dead #86 review | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 28, 2011 by SoldierHawk
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
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Posted on May 25, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #85, The Walking Dead #85 review, Zombies | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2011 by dfstell
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. [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #84, The Walking Dead #84 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Zombies | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 2, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #83, The Walking Dead #83 review, Zombies | 6 Comments »
Posted on March 9, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, Zombies | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #81, The Walking Dead #81 review, Zombies | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 5, 2011 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Russ Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #80, The Walking Dead #80 review, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 24, 2010 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Russ Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #79, The Walking Dead #79 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 20, 2010 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Russ Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #78, The Walking Dead #78 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 22, 2010 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #77, The Walking Dead #77 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 11, 2010 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image Comics, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #76, The Walking Dead #76 review, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 21, 2010 by dfstell
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? [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Robert Kirkman, Russ Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #75, The Walking Dead #75 review, The Walking Dead TV series, Walking Dead, Walking Dead #75, Walking Dead #75 review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 16, 2010 by dfstell
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Dean Stell, Image Comics, review, Robert Kirkman, Russ Wooton, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #73, The Walking Dead #73 review, Walking Dead, Walking Dead #73, Walking Dead #73 review, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 10, 2009 by paladinking
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Aaron, Abraham, Andrea, Charlie Adlard, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, community, horror comics, Image Comics, Michonne, Rick Grimes, Robert Kirkman, The Governor, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #68, The Walking Dead #68 review, TWD, Weekly Comic Book Review, Woodbury, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 11, 2009 by pozzyfreak
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Review, Image Comics, Kyle Posluszny, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead #67, The Walking Dead #67 Review, Walking Dead #67, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomicbookreview.com, Zombies | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 14, 2009 by pozzyfreak
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Fear the Hunters, Image Comics, Kyle Posluszny, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #66, The Walking Dead #66 Review, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomicbookreview.com, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 16, 2009 by pozzyfreak
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Cannibals, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Comic Book Reviews, Fear the Hunters, Image Comics, Kyle Posluszny, Rick Grimes, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #65 Review, The Walking Dead 65, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomicbookreview.com, Zombies | Leave a Comment »