Part of The Walking Dead
First published 2010
The prison is as close to home as Rick Grimes and his group have ever managed to build since the dead started walking. There are walls, routines, neighbors. Kids go to class. People fall into roles. For a moment, something almost resembling normal life takes hold inside the fences. But Rick is not at peace. He moves through the community wound tight, reactive, unpredictable. The people around him notice. They depend on him, and that dependence has its own weight. He helped build this place. He has killed to protect it. Now his own state of mind has become the thing most likely to tear it apart. The others watch him. They weigh their options. At some point, loyalty stops being automatic. Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard push Rick to a breaking point that forces everyone in the group to ask how much they will tolerate from the man who led them here. This volume collects issues 73 through 78 of the Eisner Award winning series.
Genres: drama, graphic-novels, horror, thriller, post-apocalyptic
Vibes: dark, gritty, psychological, suspenseful, tense
Tropes: descent-into-darkness, found-family, internal-conflict, power-struggle
Setting: The Prison
136 pages · Paperback · Image Comics
Content warnings: death, gore, violence