Author: Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore, Cliff Rathburn
Year Published: 2009
Genre: comic/graphic novel
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As I wrote in one of the reviews about the games I recently finished, I’ve been completely immersed into the world of The Walking Dead. I’m still on Season 5 of the show, I’ve finished two of the four Telltale games and now, I’ve read the first compendium. This volume collects issues 1-48 of the original run plus a special one-off Morgan-centric one-shot. It has been very fun for me to read through this while watching the show and picking up how they manipulated the plots from the comic to fulfill whatever the made-up criteria for the tv series was. It would actually be difficult for me to separate myself from the show when thinking critically about the book, but the book was so compelling that it just made me enjoy the entire world even more. I’ve been enjoying the art style quite a bit - this is my first black and white book that I’ve read through and I was actually nervous that I wasn’t going to enjoy it, that it would not hold my attention but nothing could be further from the truth. Some of the other horror comics I’ve read do this thing where they don’t take into account where and which panel an ipactful moment lands so sometimes you turn a page and something BIG happens in the lower bottom of the right-most page and your eye goes right to it and it deflates the impact. And maybe this is because I’m reading the digital version of this but so many of the big, impactful moments land perfectly! And it makes the surprises surprising, the scares scary and helps carry more emotional weight.