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The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out (The Walking Dead #14)
The survivors of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's Eisner Award-winning post-apocalyptic survival adventure have found relative safety in the confines of the community's walls-or have they? As conflicts continue within, the undead approach from the outside. Everyone is forced to make hard decisions, and this chapter of New York Times Best-Seller The Walking Dead proves a...more
Paperback, 136 pages
Published
June 29th 2011
by Image Comics
(first published November 2010)
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The Walking Dead series is soooooo dark….
“How dark is it, Kemper?”
The Walking Dead series is so dark that:
- each volume acts like a small black hole and immediately sucks all available light out of any room they’re placed in.
- it used to give wardrobe advice to Johnny Cash.
- Stephen King considered calling the Dark Tower series The Walking Dead Tower.
- people who have read it have then watched Requiem for a Dream to cheer themselves up.
- Andrew Vachss had to stop reading it because it was too gr...more
“How dark is it, Kemper?”
The Walking Dead series is so dark that:
- each volume acts like a small black hole and immediately sucks all available light out of any room they’re placed in.
- it used to give wardrobe advice to Johnny Cash.
- Stephen King considered calling the Dark Tower series The Walking Dead Tower.
- people who have read it have then watched Requiem for a Dream to cheer themselves up.
- Andrew Vachss had to stop reading it because it was too gr...more
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Love is in the air. It seems that surviving a violent attack is an aphrodisiac for this band of survivors. The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out moseys right along with people getting their groove on and settling into domesticity. Until...
HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
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This volume is filled with amazing zombie action. I love that whenever the shiz is about to hit the fan, there is a shot of Abraham's looming immense frame. You can almost hear the s...more
HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
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This volume is filled with amazing zombie action. I love that whenever the shiz is about to hit the fan, there is a shot of Abraham's looming immense frame. You can almost hear the s...more
update: Another bonus to the whole series is, if you line up all the trade covers next to each other, the zombies at the bottom make one big, long banner.
Here we go... a little sample below.
3/20/12
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To be honest, not much happens here. Nothing to look at, move along folks.
Just more hooking up between survivors, characters you barely had a chance to get to know getting eaten, characters you like being killed out of mercy, and then the final kicker at the...more
Here we go... a little sample below.
3/20/12
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To be honest, not much happens here. Nothing to look at, move along folks.
Just more hooking up between survivors, characters you barely had a chance to get to know getting eaten, characters you like being killed out of mercy, and then the final kicker at the...more
It's very obvious that something bad is about to happen in #14. If #13 didn't make that completely evident, there is more than enough foreshadowing in this book for the entire series. Still, even though Rick was clearly acting increasingly unstable, I was not expecting the event that made me gasp in shock.
I keep expecting the series to decline in quality and it never does. I don't know how Kirkman does it, but I love him all the same.
I keep expecting the series to decline in quality and it never does. I don't know how Kirkman does it, but I love him all the same.
When I heard that AMC was going to produce a television series based on the zombie epic "The Walking Dead," I was both concerned and delighted. A bona fide classic in undead lore, "The Walking Dead" graphic novels are brutal and surprising--not really what I would picture for a basic cable TV show. The first season ran with 6 episodes, and the ratings were stellar for AMC (a network known for terrific and prestigious shows like "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad"). With Frank Darabont of "Shawshank Red...more
Mar 22, 2013
Louise at Readers Confession
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of AMC's The Walking Dead
At the end of Volume 11, Rick and the gang face a small problem which is quickly resolved by Andrea's sharp shooting skills. What we saw in those last few pages is the set up to this editions crisis.
A few issues ago we were introduced to Abraham. At first I was a little dubious of him, but now he's quickly become Rick's right hand man, a guy you can rely on, with morals, almost like a Daryl Dixon. It's from Abraham we learn about how zombies move and gather and how they heard.. which is the thr...more
A few issues ago we were introduced to Abraham. At first I was a little dubious of him, but now he's quickly become Rick's right hand man, a guy you can rely on, with morals, almost like a Daryl Dixon. It's from Abraham we learn about how zombies move and gather and how they heard.. which is the thr...more
SPOILER ALERT!
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS FAR IN THE SERIES, DON'T READ THIS REVIEW!
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These books are starting to suck and piss me off, starting with this one. Whatever happens in this book already happened in early books. So, there really isn't a spoiler, actually. You've already read this story.
The survivors finally find a nice little community where they can try to rebuild society and have a somewhat fulfilling life. Of course they fuck it all up because they have this knack of gettin...more
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS FAR IN THE SERIES, DON'T READ THIS REVIEW!
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These books are starting to suck and piss me off, starting with this one. Whatever happens in this book already happened in early books. So, there really isn't a spoiler, actually. You've already read this story.
The survivors finally find a nice little community where they can try to rebuild society and have a somewhat fulfilling life. Of course they fuck it all up because they have this knack of gettin...more
Winter comes to the small community Rick and his friends have joined. Rick has been appointed constable but lets things go to his head and he more or less takes charge, so no one will screw up the good deal they have. They've got walls and homes and supplies and the semblance of a normal life. At the end of the last issue, the community was almost invaded by a band of roving humans but Rick and his people were able to take care of them.
The frayed nerves start to show. People are coming into conf...more
The frayed nerves start to show. People are coming into conf...more
Have you ever seen the movie 'Groundhog Day' with Bill Murray? Where he relives the same exact day over and over to the point of inanity? But only he knows that its the same day, and everyone else just keeps reliving and then he starts trying to kill himself in a number of diferent ways like driving off a cliff and a toaster in the bathtub and robs an armored car just to see what would happen. Its a great movie. I love it. but that's because the joke went on for 90 minutes and not 6 years.
The W...more
The W...more
This is another solid entry in the Walking Dead series. Anyone who has read the first thirteen volumes will expect that this one involves sympathetic characters being pushed to make impossible choices, with some potential gore and inescapable heartbreak. The series is always difficult to read, but also always so emotionally honest that it is completely worth the effort.
This collection explores the idea of safety in the new community that has been developing for the last couple of volumes. The ma...more
This collection explores the idea of safety in the new community that has been developing for the last couple of volumes. The ma...more
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Oh shit - finally, a herd-level mob of zombies converge on the community. This should be nice and bloody. It doesn't immediately turn into a running gun battle, which allows us to experience the dread and tension of a looming, massive, off-camera threat that we haven't had in quite a while - and the accompanying cracks in civil behaviour that always accompany crazy-making events like this.
The creators are keeping us properly in suspense (good plotting and scene-framing, as always), so I'm actual...more
The creators are keeping us properly in suspense (good plotting and scene-framing, as always), so I'm actual...more
Holy crap.
Every time I think this series is getting slow or redundant, Kirkman throws his readers another bone and my enthusiasm for the story is renewed. There's so much to mention in this volume. Rick's relationship with Jessie (and how it ended). I had a feeling she'd be killed off, but I love how it was done, with Rick forced to choose yet again between the life of a member of the group and his son's. Carl's injury shocked me and that particular image is now seared into my brain - I hope he...more
Every time I think this series is getting slow or redundant, Kirkman throws his readers another bone and my enthusiasm for the story is renewed. There's so much to mention in this volume. Rick's relationship with Jessie (and how it ended). I had a feeling she'd be killed off, but I love how it was done, with Rick forced to choose yet again between the life of a member of the group and his son's. Carl's injury shocked me and that particular image is now seared into my brain - I hope he...more
I’m rereading The Walking Dead up through just-released volume fourteen, and overall it’s been a treat. First volume? Okay. Second through eleven? Fucking amazing. Twelve through fourteen?
Hmm.
Here’s what I mean by that ‘Hmm’:
1. Apocalypse Stepford. Really? This little slice of oddly zombie-free suburbia is too, well, zombie-free. Not that actual zombies need to be showing up, grunghing and hammering their gooey fists on the walls – I’d buy that a group with that many guns and young men kicking a...more
Hmm.
Here’s what I mean by that ‘Hmm’:
1. Apocalypse Stepford. Really? This little slice of oddly zombie-free suburbia is too, well, zombie-free. Not that actual zombies need to be showing up, grunghing and hammering their gooey fists on the walls – I’d buy that a group with that many guns and young men kicking a...more
I think I've said this before, but I really wish I read this series before I had kids. I make it a point to plot out my zombie apocalypse strategy almost every time I get my hands on another Walking Dead book. Plotting it out now that I have little ones that I have to add in makes the entire idea of zombies even scarier. Add in the maternal instinct and the fact that of course I love my kids more than anything, and I'm just fucked. This volume really drives home the whole "kids slow you down and...more
Another solid installment of the Walking Dead. While this one was more the storm that Volume 13 set up, I actually enjoyed the quiet tension and unsettling dread of Volume 13 more than this splatterfest. Nearly half the frames in this volume are speechless frames of zombies getting brained, so there isn't a whole lot more going on here besides that. That said, I do love a good splatterfest and this set certainly delivered on that. While some pretty major characters bought it, they weren't the on...more
This was hands down my favorite TP thus far. This one felt much more fragmented than its tightly-knit predecessors, but in a way that enhanced the story; then, of course, it was all woven together masterfully in the end.
As I read this, I wished I could hand out copies of this particular TP to friends who either (a) wonder why I read the series, (b) persist in saying that zombie novels (etc.) are "about" zombies, or (c) say that graphic novels are what people who can't write have to set for.* Th...more
As I read this, I wished I could hand out copies of this particular TP to friends who either (a) wonder why I read the series, (b) persist in saying that zombie novels (etc.) are "about" zombies, or (c) say that graphic novels are what people who can't write have to set for.* Th...more
The survivors must come up with a plan to save the community from an oncoming horde of zombies. When they are forced to close the gates, a handful of people head out to rescue Andrea, who is trapped in the lookout tower outside the walls, while the rest attempt to reinforce the walls... to no avail. Everyone must look out for themselves when the community is overrun with zombies.
There are a lot of deaths in this volume and a big cliffhanger at the end. Will Carl survive or won't he? Rick's conce...more
There are a lot of deaths in this volume and a big cliffhanger at the end. Will Carl survive or won't he? Rick's conce...more
As was expected Rick assumes the leadership role of the new community and finally a few dull issues we get some real zombie action. A heard of zombies find the new community and the walls that was supposed to keep the zombies outside and not so zombie proof after all. Rick finds new love even though it is extremely short lived. Rick and others try to escape the zombies trying one of the earlier methods but it is not so successful and when a shocking incident occurs, Rick goes berserk and into a...more
And that's how you write a zombie book. Cover-to-cover terror as the undead breach the walled community. Not quite as shocking an ending as Vol. 8 (that was ridiculous), but maybe even a little more emotionally upending considering what the characters have been through. This also hammered home how much of a mess they have made of the TV series. The characters are just so much more alive on the page, less whiny and more proactive (cough cough Andrea).
I have to mention one negative that has been...more
I have to mention one negative that has been...more
So I screwed up and checked out volume 14 instead of volume six, and since I was on a roll, I went ahead and read it out of order.
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read in order on 2011, October 5
Library copy.
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read in order on 2011, October 5
Library copy.
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Living in a gated community can lead to serious problems, especially when there is a horde of zombies standing right outside the gate! people can get a little stir crazy. The only thing worse about having a zombie horde right outside the gate is when they break in and the survivors must fight once again for their struggle. for a while know Kirkman has given the readers a look into the actions of people put into stressful situation, not so much fighting zombies, but struggling to survive against...more
Another really good one. This one has a little more action then number 13 so I’m guessing that a lot of other Walking Dead fans are in heaven. I was glad to see that Robert hasn’t failed me yet again. This little town that was supposedly “safe” is just as susceptible to zombie invasion as the rest of the world. I also like to see that our main characters are just as in shape about dealing with them as well. No one is soft in this line up.
I’m not going to mention who but yet another person that R...more
I’m not going to mention who but yet another person that R...more
although i continue to love this series, wow did i hate most of this volume. i feel like it was phoned-in. the plot is not dissimilar to previous plot arcs. Rick, and to a lesser degree Michonne, do actions that seem to me to be antithetical to their characters. Rick's monologue at the end makes me want to poke my eyes out. this "revelation" is one he's had at least five times before. the art was okay, except for close-ups of faces. these faces all looked distorted and poorly-drawn, leaving me t...more
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I enjoyed this graphic novel. I would reccommend this to anyone who likes to read horror. The series is about a man named Rick who gets shot, falls into a coma and then awakes during a zombie apocalypse. In this volume of The Walking Dead, Rick and some survivors of the apocalypse are invited into a community of other survivors. At first Rick is weary as he has not had the best experience with other groups but then he sees that this new group is fine and they join the new community. At the end o...more
I read this comic several months after volume 13, to be honest I had forgotten about this series and what all had happened. But after the first 15 pages I remembered everything and understood what was happening. Let me say that this volume was more eventful than the last ones.
After Rick and co. had escaped the prison compound months earlier, they arrived at a 'safe' haven in Washington D.C. When being handed control of the community, Rick becomes determined to make it work for the sake of his...more
After Rick and co. had escaped the prison compound months earlier, they arrived at a 'safe' haven in Washington D.C. When being handed control of the community, Rick becomes determined to make it work for the sake of his...more
I love you, Walking Dead, I really do, and I'm glad that this volume mixes things up a bit.
But it's kind of getting to be like Veronica Mars, season 3, where you enjoy the characters and it's still fun to watch, but you know how good it used to be, and it's just not that good anymore, and you're kind of wishing someone would cancel the whole thing.
I'd like to see Walking Dead go on a couple more volumes, and then they can either kill Rick or somehow make him end up in Paradise, but no more drama...more
But it's kind of getting to be like Veronica Mars, season 3, where you enjoy the characters and it's still fun to watch, but you know how good it used to be, and it's just not that good anymore, and you're kind of wishing someone would cancel the whole thing.
I'd like to see Walking Dead go on a couple more volumes, and then they can either kill Rick or somehow make him end up in Paradise, but no more drama...more
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Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of...more
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