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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 #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 Vol.1: Days Gone Bye – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer/letters), Tony Moore (art) & Cliff Rathburn (gray tones) The Story: A man wakes up from a coma to find the world has been overrun by zombies. Review: News Flash!!!!!  There will be a TV adaptation of The Walking Dead beginning on AMC on Halloween night (Oct. 31, 2010).  Unless you have [...]

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 [...]

Invincible #74 – Review

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Ryan Ottley (pencils), Cliff Rathburn (inks), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Our heroes run to the rescue as the Viltrumites attack the Coalition of Planets’ headquarters on Talescria. What’s Good: Man, it’s about time.  It feels like forever since the last issue of Invincible, but I guess the fact that [...]

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? [...]

Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark #1 – Review

Written and drawn by Jason Howard & Ryan Ottley.  Gray tones by Cliff Rathburn The Story: A grizzly bear living in the ocean, a killer great white shark living in the forest… Mayhem and chomping ensue! What’s Good: Everything!  This is the awesome sauce that I wish we got to see more of in the [...]

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 [...]

Invincible #68 – Review

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Ryan Ottley (pencils), Cliff Rathburn (inks), FCO Plascencia (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Dinosaurus attacks, Mark meets Eve’s parents, and several old foes of Invincible’s consolidate for their next big attack. What’s Good: Well, you certainly can’t get on this issue for lack of plot progression.  This is a very [...]

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 [...]

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