Trapped in a town surrounded by madmen, Rick must find a way out or die trying. Meanwhile, back at the prison, the rest of the survivors come to gr...
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Nov 16, 2011
Brad
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There is a redress going on in modern popular culture with which I am fascinated. Rape tales, tales of torturing women, tales of violence against women have been told for years with graphic detail. Many of these tales have been saying (either explicitly or implicitly) that these brands of violence are wrong or even evil, but many of them still offer up the vision of this violence to illustrate the wrongs and evils.
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Now a redress has come, and we have Lisbeth Salander avenging herself More...
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Aug 28, 2011
Anthony
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HUGE turning point in the story here, from volume 5 to volume 6 so much happens to change the groups dynamic at the prison.
Glenn, Rick, and Michonne were locked up at Woodbury when they find a few sympathizers who don't like "The Governor" and his crazy ways either. So they decide when everybody is distracted to get outta Dodge and escape. Without giving too much away they make it back to their prison safehouse only to find things vastly different from how they left AND tha More...
Glenn, Rick, and Michonne were locked up at Woodbury when they find a few sympathizers who don't like "The Governor" and his crazy ways either. So they decide when everybody is distracted to get outta Dodge and escape. Without giving too much away they make it back to their prison safehouse only to find things vastly different from how they left AND tha More...
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Oct 02, 2007
Joe
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If you're like me, one of your deeply-held beliefs is that the only problem with zombie movies is that they come to an end. With that in mind, Robert Kirkman has given us "The Walking Dead", a series which tells the ongoing story of an eclectic group of people trying to live in a world now ruled by the dead.
Kirkman's introduction says it best:
"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us R More...
Kirkman's introduction says it best:
"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us R More...
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Nov 04, 2011
Jough
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Wow, from cover to cover this issue of the Walking Dead was a violent and thoroughly engaging affair. I'm going to be optimistic and make this review about where I THINK Kirkman is going with this series.
I'm really liking the development of, what appears to be, a long-term antagonist in 'The Governor' and I'm interested to find out a bit more about his back-story. So far, Kirkman has shown him to be a ruthless killer who seems to 'get off' on the suffering of others. Despite that, th More...
I'm really liking the development of, what appears to be, a long-term antagonist in 'The Governor' and I'm interested to find out a bit more about his back-story. So far, Kirkman has shown him to be a ruthless killer who seems to 'get off' on the suffering of others. Despite that, th More...
Sep 15, 2011
T.w.
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How many happy moments can you expect when Volume Six of The Walking Dead series is titles: This Sorrowful Life? The trio of Rick, Michonne, and Glenn are still being held in the small, fortified section of the town of Woodbury by a man who calls himself Governor. Things are not going well.
You can’t unbreak an egg, and Robert Kirkman has stomped on the whole damn dozen. The level of disturbing imagery eclipses the previous volume: The Best Defense. The zombie makes a few app More...
May 27, 2011
Stephanie
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Sorrowful Life wraps up the lackluster Governor story arc in a gratuitously violent way. Walking Dead has always been a violent graphic novel series, but it has never had a solid 30 pages of torture, murders and pain, against people no less, not zombies. Such violence was completely unnecessary and didn't add to the story in any meaningful way. We understand that people have become savages and lost their humanity in the presence of animals. We understand that good and evil are completely subject
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Feb 13, 2011
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Nov 23, 2010
Sarah
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My first foray into the wonderful world of comics, or graphic novels, or whatever you want to call them. I chose this series as my first, because I’ve been watching The Walking Dead on AMC, and am a sucker for zombies and any kind of post-apocalyptic horror in general.
After finishing Book One (which encompasses Issues 1 – 12), I was left unimpressed, slightly annoyed, and pretty sure that I wasn’t going to read any further. There were some elements in Book One that seemed rather sexist More...
After finishing Book One (which encompasses Issues 1 – 12), I was left unimpressed, slightly annoyed, and pretty sure that I wasn’t going to read any further. There were some elements in Book One that seemed rather sexist More...
Sep 10, 2010
Luke
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This is perhaps one of the most gruesome comics I have read, and its not the zombies that are brutalizing the humans. After the super dark turn the last volume took, this series is not for the faint of heart. I am still undecided which volume was more disturbing. The torturer becomes tortured. While it seems just, after the horrible things he did in the previous book, but the extent of the torture makes one back up and cringe, flipping the pages swiftly, only to get an idea of what is happening.
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Jan 19, 2012
Eslam
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حقا لا أصدق ما أراه بعينى من وصول الرسوم الكاريكاترية إلى هذا المستوى
كم هى رائعة بما تحتوى من تفاصيل مذهلة تشعرك وكأنك داخل المشهد
بالإضافة أنه يروق لى أسلوب الحوار بين الأشخاص بشدة
قصة ذلك العمل تدور حول انتشار أحد الأوبئة التى جعلت البشر أشبه بالزومبى من آكلى لحوم البشر ويستعرض محاولات بعض الناجين البقاء على ظهر الأرض فى ظل عدم وجود أدنى أمل فى استمرار الحياة بقيادة الشرطى ريك
بالاستمرار فى القراءة أشعر بروعة متابعة الأحداث ، فالقصة مشوقة حقا
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كم هى رائعة بما تحتوى من تفاصيل مذهلة تشعرك وكأنك داخل المشهد
بالإضافة أنه يروق لى أسلوب الحوار بين الأشخاص بشدة
قصة ذلك العمل تدور حول انتشار أحد الأوبئة التى جعلت البشر أشبه بالزومبى من آكلى لحوم البشر ويستعرض محاولات بعض الناجين البقاء على ظهر الأرض فى ظل عدم وجود أدنى أمل فى استمرار الحياة بقيادة الشرطى ريك
بالاستمرار فى القراءة أشعر بروعة متابعة الأحداث ، فالقصة مشوقة حقا
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Oct 27, 2010
Lloyd
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any more shocking or visceral, writer Robert Kirkman ups the ante on this series.
Again, as in the past few volumes, this series continues to be more than just your run-of-the-mill horror book. The zombies are still there, but they've almost become a backdrop as we see Kirkman study the human bonds between his characters and also how much more monstrous a human being can be than a member of the shambling undead.
Some have said that the More...
Again, as in the past few volumes, this series continues to be more than just your run-of-the-mill horror book. The zombies are still there, but they've almost become a backdrop as we see Kirkman study the human bonds between his characters and also how much more monstrous a human being can be than a member of the shambling undead.
Some have said that the More...
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Jun 26, 2007
Jordan
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This volume wraps up the very lackluster Governor story. Michonne gets an entire gratuitous issue to exact torturous revenge with all manner of sharp instruments, but everyone else is just spinning their wheels and I am left struggling to find a reason to be interested in these people anymore.
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Jan 13, 2012
Darcy
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I really enjoyed the first few books in the series, but it starts to take a nosedive for me. And it's not because the writing is poor, it's because the plot starts to take the predictable: "You think zombies are bad, wait til you see the humans!" I am so tired of this plot line. It's been done, and it's been done better.
I think I might have read #7, but that was about it for me. And it's not that the violence is too much, I'm fine with violence, torture, etc. But a t More...
I think I might have read #7, but that was about it for me. And it's not that the violence is too much, I'm fine with violence, torture, etc. But a t More...
Apr 30, 2011
Andy
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After the events and darkness of volume 5 there's very few ways this could have gone. Darker it is then. There are some fairly unpleasant scenes in this volume making for difficult reading, justified or not.
I was expecting more but somehow by the time we get to the end not a huge amount seems to have happened and rather than getting closer to characters I'm feeling more distant from them. The plot seems stuck with recent events highlighting the problem with The Walking Dead trades More...
I was expecting more but somehow by the time we get to the end not a huge amount seems to have happened and rather than getting closer to characters I'm feeling more distant from them. The plot seems stuck with recent events highlighting the problem with The Walking Dead trades More...
Sep 27, 2010
logankstewart
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Wow. This Sorrowful Life starts immediately after Volume 5. Rick is recovering from his maiming. Glenn is confined to a cell, forced to listen to the brutality Michonne endures. And Michonne...
Volume 6 of The Walking Dead focuses on the capture of Rick, Glenn, and Michonne, as well as those left behind in the prison. The trio is left wondering when and how they will die. They have revealed no information on the prison, but how long can they endure torture? And what about the r More...
Volume 6 of The Walking Dead focuses on the capture of Rick, Glenn, and Michonne, as well as those left behind in the prison. The trio is left wondering when and how they will die. They have revealed no information on the prison, but how long can they endure torture? And what about the r More...
Apr 11, 2010
Ryan
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The zombie apocalypse is just the crucible wherein human emotions, beliefs, and morals are heated until they change into other forms. This is the key to good apocalypse stories, and Kirkman knows it, embraces it, and turns that Bunsen burner all the way up.
Y'all know what undead apocalypse is, so I won't get into that, but this band of survivors, led by ex-cop Rick, look to take over a prison where they can try to grow food, keep out the rotters, and try to cobble togehter some sembl More...
Y'all know what undead apocalypse is, so I won't get into that, but this band of survivors, led by ex-cop Rick, look to take over a prison where they can try to grow food, keep out the rotters, and try to cobble togehter some sembl More...
Jul 06, 2011
Larry
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Volume 6 wraps up the events of volume 5 with a bloodbath (or two). This volume is dark, even by zombie standards, and a lot of it wasn't really needed.
We get revenge on the governor and his cronies, but it seemed gratuitous and some of it seemed a little silly as well. The conclusion is a little to neat and quick and the moral of the story is a bit heavy-handed. We've all lost our humanity and are no better than the zombies, we get it. That's been the theme since the beginning o More...
We get revenge on the governor and his cronies, but it seemed gratuitous and some of it seemed a little silly as well. The conclusion is a little to neat and quick and the moral of the story is a bit heavy-handed. We've all lost our humanity and are no better than the zombies, we get it. That's been the theme since the beginning o More...
May 02, 2008
Ryan
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It's kind of sad to see how far this series has fallen. Where it used to rely heavily on atmospheric horror and character empathy, now there is just empty gore for its own sake. This book felt hollow.
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May 31, 2009
Erik
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Volume six, This Sorrowful Life, is the bookend to the horrific events that unfolded in the previous volume. Just when you thought matters could not get any worse, they do. Having escaped the heart of darkness known as Woodbury, Rick returns to the prison home of his fellow survivors to find that the seemingly impenetrable double-fence perimeter has been compromised – resulting in a desperate retreat deeper into the prison facility.
This is not just a series that won’t let up, but on More...
This is not just a series that won’t let up, but on More...
May 25, 2011
Zach
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"This Sorrowful Life" was a return to form for "The Walking Dead," and it was everything that "The Best Defense" should have been. This story picks up right where the last left off; several of the main characters are in mortal danger, poor decisions from the previous installment are going to create a multitude of life and death scenarios, a villain is ready to be expanded upon, and Rick Grimes is on the verge of sinking even more deeply into his inner darkness. Th
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Jul 04, 2011
Matt
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The story continues to be good, there's no getting around that. But this issue had such a graphic scene of violence, that I actually considered not continuing on in my reading of "The Walking Dead." This wasn't zombie violence - this scene depicted one human mutilating another human in order to seek revenge. I'm not saying that the character didn't have it coming, and I'm not actually going to stop reading "The Walking Dead," but I'm giving this book a lower rating because
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Feb 09, 2012
Angela
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The art in this volume was hard to look at, and as many others have said, the scene with Michonne and the Governor was pretty intense, but I feel like she was raging not only against what he did to her, but also the whole situation and everything she had lost, so I get it.
Also, we don't yet know exactly what she witnessed when she was on her own for months on the outside. We know she lost everyone in her family, but we don't know the details and what happened to her after. She is More...
Also, we don't yet know exactly what she witnessed when she was on her own for months on the outside. We know she lost everyone in her family, but we don't know the details and what happened to her after. She is More...
Jul 10, 2011
Jennifer
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The Walking Dead graphic novels continue to shock and amaze me. While this is a gritty ongoing zombie story, the depth of the human factor is with horrific realism time and again.
In This Sorrowful Life Rick finds a savior among the Governor's people, but as it is often the case, things that seem too good to be true often are just that. Rick strays farther and farther from his original role as lawman, but does so in the name of protecting his people. More than just a dark and grisly h More...
In This Sorrowful Life Rick finds a savior among the Governor's people, but as it is often the case, things that seem too good to be true often are just that. Rick strays farther and farther from his original role as lawman, but does so in the name of protecting his people. More than just a dark and grisly h More...
Sep 15, 2010
Morgan
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I was equal parts disgusted and cheering as Michonne took her revenge on the Governor. She's most likely crazy (even before all of that happened to her), but especially now she has every right to be. I really want to know what the deal is with her talking to herself, because she's done that from when she showed up outside the prison to help Otis.
I really hope that the Governor is dead or dies (although part of me wants him to live on and suffer in misery day after day), because I More...
I really hope that the Governor is dead or dies (although part of me wants him to live on and suffer in misery day after day), because I More...
Apr 27, 2010
Fizzgig76
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Reprints The Walking Dead #31-36. Rick, Michonne, and Glenn work to escape from Woodbury and the Governor's control. Walking Dead is pretty consistant but not much seems to happen issue to issue. As collections it works, but I don't think I could justify buying it as a comic. The art is rather bland and the black and white often makes it difficult to recognize characters or sometimes understand what exactly is happening. It isn't a bad comic, but I don't think it is all it is hyped to be.
Jan 03, 2010
Nissa
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Mar 13, 2011
Frank
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The weakest book in the series so far. Really just resolving the storyline from Vol 5, and too quickly IMO. I admit I was a bit put off by the level of torture porn. Sure, it's a justfiable revenge, but it plays a little too over the top. If anything it brings up the horrific treatment of the avenging female character in the last book and I don't know if this payback is enough to make up for that exploitation. I get what Kirkman was trying to say but it's not his finest work.
Jun 24, 2011
Ben
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This volume was really dark, even by zombie standards. That's not to say it isn't good. On the contrary, I like that Kirkman is making us wrestle with the morality of the choices some of the characters make in this one.
6 volumes in and I'm absolutely loving this series. I can't get over how cool it is that there's an epic, character driven, zombie series that does such a phenomenal job exploring deep issues in each and every volume. I can't wait to see what happens next!
6 volumes in and I'm absolutely loving this series. I can't get over how cool it is that there's an epic, character driven, zombie series that does such a phenomenal job exploring deep issues in each and every volume. I can't wait to see what happens next!
Jul 06, 2010
Colin
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Now with a solid core group of protagonists for a little it was nice to see interaction with other survivors and witness how they are handling everything. Both of these volumes were quite disturbing and at times horrifying but I found it interesting that it wasn't because of the zombies, it was because of other demented survivors. I flew through both of these in literally one night, mistakenly right before bed.
*This review is for Book 3 (Vol. 5 + 6) in the series.
*This review is for Book 3 (Vol. 5 + 6) in the series.
Aug 04, 2011
Wow! Another very dark volume. This book was really about revenge and reunion. You have to begin to wonder how much violence can one person do before it seriously affects their psyche. Our main characters are seriously showing the wear, but compared to so many other they have met along the way, they are still the good guys. It was nice to see the gang reunited at the end, but now you have to wonder how long will it be before they are discovered.
