The Walking Dead #85Beginning with this month’s dramatic issue of The Walking Dead, I will be taking over the reigns to our site’s comic review coverage from long time writer, Geoff Arbuckle. I hope that I will be able to bring the same scope and thought that he has proven successful for so long, and that you, our readers, will bear with us as we make this authorial change with this month’s issue.
Following the horrific events of No Way Out, Carl is seemingly recovering, and the community is in a state of disarray. But the stand off in the last issue has given Rick a much needed realization, and it promises to be one that will change the series for at least some time to come.But Rick isn’t doing this alone. Contrary to Geoff’s suspicions presented in his review of the last issue, Rick has brought the entire community in to work together to make their home more secure, seemingly sidestepping the corruption that we saw in the Governor. And with the new plans being set up as a team effort, it will be interesting to see where the series goes from here, as the group attempts to rebuild civilization with the roamers now being considered little more than a periodic nuisance.
As a long time fan of the undead, I look at his issue in a way I’m not sure others will. It is a very interesting middle ground that we’ve never really seen before, and something Kirkman has pleasantly surprised me with time and again is his ability to revolutionize a genre so widely saturated. This middle ground that is being presented seems to be the imagined turn around that we were always left to ponder about in films that take place in the post-Zombie Apocalypse time frame when civilization has learned to deal with the undead (such as George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead). In such presentations we see civilized communities that have made due and rebuilt. Here, we seem to be on the precipice of seeing such come to fruition. And that makes me excited, not only as a reader of the series, but as the fan of the genre that I have been for so many years.
As for the immediate future of the series, I’m excited to see how Carl comes out of this. With the conclusion of this issue, I’m left thinking this could still go either way. He could live… he could die. Given his wound, he could live and be left without a memory, which could make things harder for Rick than if he were to die. Or he could never come to and simply become an anchor for Rick in the issues to come, that could lead to despair in the end. It is clearly an emotional time for our characters, and I can’t wait to see where things go from here.
A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConsWe seem to be entering an interesting time in the series, full of things typically unseen anywhere else in the undead genre.It seemed to be much of a stepping stone issue, though such things are needed at times. Rating85% You might also like...
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