World Famous Comics: The Walking Dead, Book 8: Made to Suffer
The Walking Dead, Book 8: Made to Suffer
By: Robert Kirkman Publisher: Image Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Image Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 136 Publication Date: July 16, 2008
Product Description: The series that created the zombie movement reaches its most pivotal, series-altering arc yet! They thought they were safe in the prison. They were wrong. A force far more deadly than the walking dead is at their door and when the dust settles, their rank will be reduced by more than half. No one is safe!
Predictably Shocking Call me old fashioned, but there comes a point when criminals decapitating children, and infants getting blown away with shotguns is no longer fun. I have been a loyal fan of the series for a while, but I am debating whether this is where I quit following the series. It seems that the writers of the seriest try to shock the readers just for the sake of shocking the readers.In volume 8, most of the characters are killed off in horrific fashion, which left me wondering why am I reading this? It's like when you watch a movie with a terrible ending. I have started to notice a very predictable trend in the stories. The group meets up with a new person, the new person creates some kind of unreasonable drama, the new person goes crazy and kills someone or the new person is killed.It would be refreshing if they actually met a normal person, who created no drama, and lived or did something useful.The best thing about this book is that it ends the prison arc, which went way too long.
Gutsy, Brilliant, Shocking Kirkman's The Walking Dead series never fails to surprise - or to deliver. Again he shows that he'll pull no punches when it comes to delivering a shocking, unexpected and brilliantly entertaining story.
Volume 7 was a bit 'day in the life' - the band of survivors became accustomed to life within the walls of their prison home. Characters met, bonded, related, grew. But it was aptly named - the calm before the storm.
Whereas 7 was slow-burning and insightful, 8 is pure chaos - a surfeit of violence and bloodshed (or ichor-shed for the zombies). As with the previous collections, Kirkman shows that the real enemy of the living is the other living... while zombies are an unthinking threat, it is sentient human beings that present the real horror.
A fantastic collection. Worth reading immediately, then setting down, re-reading 7 (or 1-7!), and then reading again. Well done, and can't wait to see what comes next!
Holy @%#$ing @#$%! ...seriously ((((((DO NOT READ THE OTHER REVIEWS UNLESS YOU WANT THE PLOT SPOILED))))) I really don't think there is a way to describe the amount of talent that goes into this book without dropping some F-bombs. but I'll try... Speaking generally about the entire series so I don't give anything away... Lets just say that I honestly can't remember the last time words and images had this big of an impact on me. I work at a comic book store and I read everything. Honestly. My @$$ is kicked. This book has made the biggest impact on me than ANY other series I have read. YOU HAVE TO READ THE WHOLE THING. Kirman slows down the story from time to time but only if its necessary, and then pulls you right back in. You are in good hands. This book has EVERYTHING! If this review was the one that talked you into reading the series... your welcome =o)
Kirkman does it better than anyone else these days. Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Made to Suffer (Image, 2008)
The showdown between Rick and his people in the prison and the Governor and his people in the city has been coming for a couple of issues now, and it's finally here. Thankfully, Kirkman stays with the high quality he's set for himself and makes this far less a cinematic winner-take-all blowout than, well, an actual honest-to-pete battle; to say any more would give the game away, and I certainly have no desire to do that. After all, if you're not already reading The Walking Dead, you should be; while Kirkman long ago left the valley of the shadow of Romero, comparisons are inevitable where quality is concerned. Kirkman is the gold standard of zombie-dom when it comes to the graphic novel. When someone puts out better graphic-novel zombies, I will read them and rejoice. Until then, Kirkman gets my vote, as he has for the last seven issues of this brilliant piece of work. ****
This one is great...check this one out too.. The title is right. This series is amazing, you should also get RAISE THE DEAD hardcover. The art for that one is amazing, and the stories would make good material for a very good movie.
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