The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer

The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer (The Walking Dead #8)

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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.
Paperback, 136 pages
Published April 1st 2008 by Image Comics (first published October 2007)
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Lou
The pace does not let up in this volume. I must say there is one bad ass femme fatale with a sword in this story. She takes it to the Governor and oh boy some real torture ensues a real gore feast. But she rocks!
They return eventually to the Prison with one person missing a hand and the zombies are still popping out of the woodwork. Loved to hear more from the brutal Governor.
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Dominic
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Ashley
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Robert Beveridge
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...more
Brad
Aug 10, 2008 Brad rated it 5 of 5 stars
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This book is brutal, but brilliant. I had to read it cover to cover in one sitting. At first, I had the same quibbles I often do with new volumes of the book--there are too many almost-anonymous characters and a bit too much grisly violence--but Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard keep up their gritty storytelling. This storyline pays off the build-up from the last two volumes where our Rick and his band of prison-dwellers face off with another camp that watches zombie fights. I thought the Govern...more
Lucy
Nooooooooooooooooooo

In the immortal words of Anakin Skywalker, DO NOT WANT!

Augh.

Way to find a bad guy more terrifying than zombies, Robert Kirkman. And way to take away any false sense of security you ever created.

Augh.
Michael Hawk
On the top of this review box it says "what I learned from this book." What I learned from Vol. 8 of The Walking Dead is not to fall in love with characters. In a series where the cast is introduced and killed off on a fairly regular basis, this collection is absolutely brutal to the regulars. Seriously, when you get to the final panel, the series as you know has wholly and completely changed for good. This story is about battle and loss and a writer who has the guts to destroy his own creation...more
Matthew Kelley
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Renee Nicole

I've been debating on five stars or one star for this one. For that fact alone, I can only rave about it. (Find the reason why I gave four stars in the spoiler, if you dare).

If you're reading this series, you know what you're expecting in this volume. You know this is going to be it. It's Woodbury or The Prison.

We see The Governor's recoup from... a'hem... Michonne before it all goes down, which I liked. We see our guys kicking major ass early on, which was awesome. We even see a retreat, which...more
Tyler Hill
I've enjoyed Walking Dead overall, and there's no doubt that -with regards to the ongoing story- this volume is HUGE. Still, it's hard to recommend something that is effectively one big blood-bath. I'm going to side step particulars so as not to spoil things for readers... but, man... There's some brutal, brutal stuff here. And, if you've been reading along for the last 7 volumes, here's hoping you're not too emotionally invested in a lot of these characters.

Beyond the actual events in this stor...more
PATRICK

The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard

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Hey, guys!
For today, I’ll be talking about the eight volume of the greatest comic book series of all time The Walking Dead, which is written by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn in 2008.
As for the television series that was created by AMC, the show is in its midseason break that will come back in February. As for the comic book series, I am only halfway to its latest publication s...more
Meagan
This is the volume where I started to feel like the choices people were making were not really well thought out. A few volumes ago when the decided one person wouldn't decide everything any more, that seemed like a fair way to go. However, after seeing how the war between Woodbury and the Prison pans out, and more importantly the decisions made in the down time between the two battles, I've really got to question it. Everyone makes their own choice and does their own thing, and this is one of th...more
Brittany
Jul 18, 2012 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Walking Dead fans - TV or book
How I Came To Read This Book: Luckily upon yesterday's cliffhanger, I discovered Volume 8 was waiting patiently for me at the library, so another lunchtime was spent devouring (ew) another instalment of TWD.

The Plot: The battle all of the characters (and the reader) had come to expect for quite some time explodes across the pages in this instalment, with one of the biggest bloodbaths to date, and hugely questionable outcomes for the majority of our characters.

The Good & The Bad: I was clos...more
Nenia Campbell
i definitely did not like this book as much as the others.

1. there wasn't really any character development. true, andrea proves once again that she is a loyal badass who's a better person to have fighting on your side than lara croft, but i already knew that from her development in previous chapters. the other characters...eh.

2. unlike previous chapters, where the violence served some kind of plot point, this seemed gratuitous. like kirkman knew he was running out of steam and wanting to buy a l...more
Yolanda Sfetsos
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Shannon McEwen
MAJOR SPOILERS in my review!

So my husband, who I count on to warn me when really, really bad things happen in this series, didn't think it was important to tell me that Lori and the baby get shot and killed near the end of this book. They do. Also, most of the rest of my favorite characters were gone by the end of this one.

This volume centers around our gang of protagonists defending their prison against the Governor and his followers. It's good stuff and yet...

I find myself really frustrated...more
T.W. Brown
The eighth installment of The Walking Dead should be titled: Santa ate the Easter Bunny, then raped the Tooth Fairy and hung himself. Robert Kirkman chose to go with Made to Suffer.

In case you didn’t get it…this story is all bad. I challenge you to have an ounce of happiness left in your soul after reading this chapter. I couldn’t smile for a week. Suffice it to say, set this one down and find a quiet place and get all your cryin’ done before trying to be around other people.

No I won’t even giv...more
Craig
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Eslam Daoud
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
لا عجب حين تكون الصورة الأصل مبهرة هكذا ، فتكون ال...more
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he previous volume in The Walking Dead series, The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before, promised us a coming storm, and "Made to Suffer" certainly delivered. But instead of a storm, we got a tsunami. The story opens with a flashback in Woodbury, with the Governor still alive and intent on revenge after his extreme torture at the hands of Michonne. He gets his revenge...in a worse way than I could have imagined. With each scene, I was thinking, "Did THAT really just happen???" Kirkman tore apar...more
Matti Karjalainen
"The Walking Dead" on tällä hetkellä ilmestyvien kauhusarjakuvien ehdotonta aatelia. Kahdeksanteen osaan edennyt tarina on kuvaa pienen ihmisjoukon pinnistelyä romahtaneessa yhteiskunnassa, joka on mystisen zombie-ruton saastuttama. Elävien kuolleiden lisäksi syytä on varoa myös kanssaihmisiä, jotka saattavat olla susia toisilleen, mikäli oma selviytyminen on siitä kiinni.

Kuvio on siis melko perinteinen ja tuttu jokaiselle, joka on katsonut George A. Romeron elokuvia. Kirkmanin tapa kuvata tapah...more
Samantha
Note: Yes, I am going to use the same review for all of the Walking Dead comics I've read. Don't judge me too harshly; I have a lot of reviews to write.

What I liked:
-The art. It was simple yet beautiful and strong. It painted a clear picture and it even had me smiling sometimes, like Rick’s face when he got hit with the shovel. It made me giggle.
-Character death. I love that the creator isn’t afraid to kill off a character without any notice. You never know who will live and who will die, and it...more
Philip
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Katie
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Crazyjamie
Eight volumes in, and this story gets what could really be called a 'season finale'. The last volume was slower and more sensitive than the volumes before it, with characters preparing themselves for the fight to come. That fight arrives in this volume, and it hits hard and without mercy.

Kirkham has proved in the past that he has no issue with killing characters, but he really reinforces that in the starkest terms in this volume. The crescendo at the end of this installment pulls no punches, an...more
Melissa
The end of issue 48 is the closest this series has come to making me cry yet. (view spoiler)[I knew it was going to happen. I knew it before I ever began reading, and yet Carl's "Where's Judy?", the tears in Rick's eyes, they had me welling up. I had my doubts about this arc before it kicked off. It's all well and good to proclaim that no-one is safe, but there was a lot of dead-weight in that prison I won't miss... Axel, Patricia, Billy - they were okay, I didn't dislike them, but their deaths...more
Larry McCloskey
Well, I didn't see THAT coming! The Governor story arc comes to a fiery conclusion in this volume and honestly, I'm not sure if the series just jumped the shark in spectacular fashion.

The volume itself is incredible. The action is non-stop, as is the tension. Kirkman giveth and Kirkman taketh away, pulling out all the stops to make absolutely certain that reader comes to grip with just how brutal this new zombie-infested world is. The fact that he can convey that dread, terror and loss while the...more
Ian
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Bruce M
If the last volume was a sketchy 5 stars, this volume's stars are solid. This is probably my favourite volume of the series, with 1 and 6 coming close behind.

Volume 7 is slow paced and sets the stage for the events that take place here. There is action, and human drama. There are decisions made which have effects that rock the foundation of the group.

My biggest (only) problem with this trade is that I really feel Andrea acts out of character by not trying harder at (and not succeeding in) convin...more
Suzanne
I recognize the author meant to wrap up several things at once here, but it was a bit too much of a bloodbath for my taste. I found it unsatisfying.

I'd give the series up to this point just three stars. Early on, I suspected that much of the depth I was assigning the characters came from the AMC series. As the graphic novel progressed, it became clear this was the case. I have to give the tv writers some credit -- even with the show's imperfections, they did some great stuff with the source mate...more
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