First published 2009
Rick Grimes and his group are moving. Washington, D.C. is the destination, a rumored place of safety that keeps them putting one foot in front of the other. But the road does not care about hope. Every mile brings fresh threats, and the people who started this journey are not the same people walking it now. Rick watches the group around him, the ones he is supposed to protect, and the question that keeps surfacing is not whether they will reach Washington. It is what they will have done by the time they get there. Choices accumulate. Violence leaves marks. The survivors make decisions that would have been unthinkable back when the world still made sense, and those decisions stick. This volume, collecting issues 55 through 60, sits at the heart of what the series does best: it forces characters to act, then makes them live with it. The emotional weight here is not in the zombies. It is in the people, in what they are quietly becoming as survival grinds them down.
Genres: fiction, drama, survival, graphic-novels, horror, post-apocalyptic
Vibes: dark, emotionally-heavy, gritty, intense, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: character-deterioration, found-family, moral-compromise, survival-against-odds
Setting: Washington, D.C.
136 pages · Comics · Image Comics
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence, violence