Image Comics
Robert Kirkman, writer
Charlie Adlard, artist
More bad stuff happening for Rick Grimes and crew. As usual, not everyone in Rick's latest blended group is satisfied with the former policeman's leadership. Despite the internal challenges, Rick, Jesus from the Hilltop community and King Ezekiel have agreed to join forces to eliminate the threat posed by Negan and his band of Saviors. The three make their plans for an attack and begin to train those among their ranks less used to fighting. But it is key to their plans to keep the attack a secret until they are ready to move.
That all goes out the window when Negan makes his regular visit to Rick's community for supplies and tribute several days early. A conflict breaks out before Rick's, Jesus' and Ezekiel's forces are ready, and things do not go well for our heroes in this latest volume.
There are a few scenes in this trade where a group is traveling from one place to another when they encounter a few zombies that have to be dispatched. Each instance is dealt with matter-of-factly while unrelated conversations continue. Most all of the real action of these issues, as is typical of this series, concerns the living and how they act and react to each other.
That is what keeps me coming back to this series trade after trade: a zombie apocalypse might have kick-started the events, but it is no longer the primary motivation or driving force of the series. Living, breathing humans are. Cruel, compassionate, helpful, savage humans. And Kirkman just keeps ramping up the tension and drama, book after book.
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