Product Description

Out on their own, danger lurking around every corner, our ragged band of survivors tries to live long enough to reach Washington D.C. Collects The Walking Dead #55-60.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3003 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Customer Reviews

Relentlessly grim
No-one is going to join the story at this point so the main purpose of this review is to assure those that have been on the journey so far that the high quality storytelling continues in this volume.
As others have said before, the real horror of this tale is not in the unrelenting backdrop of the zombie attacks but in the exploration of the darkness of the human soul. Without stability or the ability to settle down and construct a better future for themselves the survivors are all in various states of despair. They are damaged beyond endurance, surviving, like the zombies around them, on the remnants of their former lives. Killing to survive and resorting to violence against each other without hesitation or remorse.

Against this relentlessly grim backdrop, Kirkman does well to continue writing interesting characters and for the most part he avoids resorting to 'monster attack of the week' tactics to keep things moving on. Instead he has created a believable world where all that separates the living from the dead is the knowledge of what they have become.

Hell is empty...
Volume 10 continues Kirkman's fantastic zombie horror series. The plot and characters are now well established and continue to develop with the ever-present threat of attack from the living dead and more so from other survivors. Rick and the rest of the group are heading towards DC hoping to find... something.

There are no pious clichés or baseless optimism - just survival at any cost.

The survivors slowly head northwards...
Volume 10 sees Rick and Carl continuing their journey with the new group of survivors they met in the last book. By now, the group are more likely to discuss the reasons for the outbreak rather than simply shooting and walking on.
What I liked mostly what the way it is shown how numb the survivors have become to violence, even young Carl, and even one of the twins starts to show disturbing traits. Readers will be happy to see the tragic return of one of the earlier characters from the series.
I felt the volume could have been longer but then maybe its just because once you start reading, you must continue until the book has finished.
Can't wait for the next volume.