Posted on May 10, 2012 by dfstell
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Rick and his scouting party return to Arlington with news of the Bigger World. Recap/Review (with SPOILERS): As was the case last month, The Walking Dead shows how much better it works when the reader can see [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2012 by dfstell
Maybe we’ll start this as a new feature? I’ll flip through Previews, tell you what I think is worthwhile and you can tell me I’m a moron. Sound like fun? DARK HORSE - Axe Cop: President of the World #1 - At some point, this odd comic that is written by 8 year old Malachai Nicolle and [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2012 by dfstell
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: A finale to the Larger World story-arc hints at possible future conflicts. The Review (with SPOILERS): Yea!!! We have a direction for the story leading up to issue #100! That’s good and it’s in keeping with [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2012 by dfstell
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) and Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Rick and gang finally see the community called Hilltop. A Few Things: [as always....with SPOILERS] Glad to finally see this place. - Well, it’s taken us a long time to reach this Hilltop joint. At least 2-3 issues, right? For [...]
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 #95, The Walking Dead #95 review | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2012 by dfstell
Original Air Date: March 18, 2012 A Few Things: [SPOILERS] 1. Great first 30 minutes! - That first 30 minutes of the show during the zombie attack was tense and exciting as hell. What I enjoyed the most was how disorganized everything was. By the time our characters knew what was going on, the zombie herd was upon [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2012 by dfstell
Original Air Date: March 11, 2012 Five Things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Finally! - I wonder if TWD can almost “start over” after this episode’s big event (the killing of Shane). When this series first began in 2010, “we” all focused on how loyal it was to the comic book. I have almost stopped looking at the series that [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2012 by dfstell
Original Air Date: March 4, 2012 A few things…. [with SPOILERS] 1. This is what this show can do… - Critics (myself included) have focused a lot of energy on what this show doesn’t do well… But this episode showed what TWD can do as well as any show on television. Not many other shows right now are [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2012 by dfstell
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (grey tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The gang sets out to find one of these new cities that we’ve been hearing so much about. A few things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Too much writing for the trade. - There was a time when TWD was equally [...]
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 #94, The Walking Dead #94 review, Zombies | 10 Comments »
Posted on February 28, 2012 by dfstell
Original air date: February 26, 2012 Five Things: 1. Those zombies were great! – I’m not one who gets upset that every episode isn’t a full-on zombie attack. I like (or want to like) the human moments too. But, this show does have a knack for these big zombie scenes. The beginning of the episode was cool [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2012 by dfstell
Original Air Date: February 19, 2012 Five Things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Inconsistent behavior from Rick. - Okay, stay with me here. In Episode 8, we saw Rick make a snap judgement to kill those two men in the bar. He didn’t have a lot of information to go on, but he basically knew what was up, so BANG BANG [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2012 by dfstell
Original Air Date: February 12, 2012 Five things [SPOILERS]: 1. A pretty drab first 45 minutes… – Man, that was some seriously slow television. There were some high points, like when Andrea had to fetch the arm that mysteriously fell off the dead zombie, but there really wasn’t a lot going on. [Note to creators: [...]
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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 28, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: November 27, 2011 Five Things: [SPOILER WARNING] 1. Whoa! Sophia! - I made a note right before the final commercial break that this episode had a LOT of ground to cover to be a decent mid-season finale. And then, as we descended into the scene of Shane going nutso and busting open the [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: November 20, 2011 The Story: Everyone has secrets and it turns out that “can’t-live-with-’em-can’t-live-without-’em” saying about women is true. Five Things: 1. Man, Lori. - What an unlikable character she’s becoming! This really does mirror the comic where every time Rick had something important to do, there was Lori harping at him. Yelling [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: November 13, 2011 Five things: (Full SPOILERS) 1. Darryl’s incredibly crappy day. Man….that’s a bad day at the office, huh? About halfway through the show, I tweeted that they should have called the episode “Darryl’s really shitty day”. Fall off a horse (bad stunt work. No one falls off a horse that [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: November 6, 2011 Five things: 1. Nothing BIG going on, but lots of little stuff. This almost felt like an issue of the comic book. Anyone who reads the comic knows that the comic series delights in starting small smoldering fires and then fanning the flames for 5-6 issues until the characters have [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: October 30, 2011 Five Things: Full SPOILERS below… 1. I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you. Have you ever heard that punchline? I guess we got a small taste of humans being the true danger last season (Merle, that street gang), but the ending of this [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2011 by dfstell
Original air date: October 23, 2011 Five Things: 1). Much better pacing than last week’s episode. Even though this is Season 2, TWD is still a pretty young show. This is only the 8th episode total, so when the creators serve us an awkwardly paced episode like S2E1, it isn’t inappropriate for fans to get [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2011 by dfstell
Original Air Date: October 16, 2011 The Story: Having left the blown up CDC at the end of Season 1, the gang continues their trek in their beat-up 80′s RV on the wreck-strewn interstates around Atlanta. What Was Good: This is going to be a full-on SPOILERS INCLUDED review, so you were warned…. This episode [...]
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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 [...]
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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 »
