The Walking Dead, Vol. 18 by Robert Kirkman

Nothing of our old world remains and there is this constant unknowing if there is a government still there and if society will return if at all. Trusting your fellow man isn’t an option and there are no laws or government. This is a sad and bitter world with people reduced to relying on survival instincts. So if the sheer length of it scared you, it is very easy to sail through it. However, something I really enjoyed was once I sat down and opened this sheer brick of a collection, it was very easy to be sucked in to the story. So lets get this out of the way first, this is a complete tome that is over 1000 pages and I was reading this for a while. *****Trigger Warnings for body horror, gore, mutilation, death of a parent, rape, physical and sexual assault, suicide, self-harm and domestic abuse****** With The Walking Dead #1-48, this compendium features more than one thousand pages chronicling the start of Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning story of zombie horror, from Rick Grimes waking up alone in a hospital, his band of survivors seeking refuge on an isolated farm and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot, The Governor. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. It’s taken me until now to read the comics. Then the show tanked, it got so bad and the only good things left were Michonne and Negan. I was sharing Daryl Dixon pictures on my Facebook page, I bought the Telltale game (which I have yet to play fully) and you can guess the rest. I was obsessed and I’m not even joking when I say that. I think it was 2014 or 2015 when I caught up with The Walking Dead TV show. You think that we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead? Don’t you get it? We are the walking dead!

The Walking Dead, Vol. 18 by Robert Kirkman