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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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Forward Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. In essence, this report card is a list of offerings we’ve enjoyed for the entire year 2010. There will probably be a lot to debate about– who got snubbed, or who really deserved it… So let us know if we’re out of our minds, [...]
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What’s Good: How about that grenade?!?! Didn’t we just know that would show up again? I’ll go ahead and give the obligatory SPOILER warning because it is hard to discuss what I liked about this episode without getting into the main “shocking” event of the episode. One of the things that made issues 7-12 of [...]
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The Story: The survivors leave tent-ville, and head out onto the road. [NOTE: SPOILER WARNING!] What’s Good: This is the kind of show that TWD really should be. Lots of good relationship stuff in this episode that was best summarized by Rick and Lori’s discussion about “next steps.” Neither of them knows what they should [...]
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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 [...]
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The Story: Did you really think that the only people to survive the Atlanta area were the 20 or so people we see in TWD? Also someone finally gets eaten by a zombie! What’s Good: This was pitch perfect for what we comic-fans want The Walking Dead to be, as it is adapted to the [...]
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What’s Good: Well, all the fanboys howling about last week’s episode can shut up: “The Walking Dead isn’t supposed to be about zombies! It’s about human relationships, damn it! This show sucks ass!” After last week’s intense escape from Atlanta (honestly, would the fanboys have been happier if the gang had thrown a rock down [...]
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The Story: Rick has to escape from a downtown Atlanta that is swarmed by zombies. What’s Good: The pilot episode of TWD was interesting in how much it followed the comics. It was nice that they started out with a pretty faithful adaptation of the comic (as a nod to us comic fans) before going [...]
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Review: Every comic book fan knows the feeling. The initial excitement when we hear that a beloved comic is going to be adapted into film or TV show followed by the awful ‘what if they fuck it up??’ feeling. We’ve had a lot of punches to the gut before where the product was just awful [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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If you haven’t seen it yet, you can catch the 17-minute making of The Walking Dead, here.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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AMC has a behind-the-scenes video for The Walking Dead, that describes the process of creating this “completely emaciated, dessicated corpse” in just three minutes. Click here to view.
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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? [...]
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Robert Kirkman Tours the Set Follow Kirkman through the set of a devastated gas station as he describes watching Andrew Lincoln portray Rick Grimes. Play Video. See how it all begins when artist Tony Moore’s original artwork is brought to life by the animators at Juice Films and voice actor Phil LaMarr.
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The Special Effects Make-Up Artist for Romero’s Day of the Dead and Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds describes getting the extras pumped in The Walking Dead and sizing up potential zombies over dinner. Q: You’ve been creating zombies for George Romero for years. What made you want to tackle The Walking Dead? A: I’ve been best friends [...]
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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 [...]
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