First published 2011
Rick Grimes and the other survivors have spent weeks building something rare in this world: a routine. Inside the walls of the Alexandria Safe Zone, people sleep in real beds, argue over chores, and almost forget what waits outside. Then the dead start gathering at the fence line, drawn by noise and numbers, pressing harder each night. Inside, the tension is just as dangerous. Alliances are fragile. Trust is a resource people spend carefully. When the walkers finally breach the perimeter, the community faces a crisis that no amount of careful planning can absorb. People act on instinct, on fear, on love. Some choices save lives. Others end them. Rick has kept his group alive through worse, but Alexandria is bigger and messier than anything he has managed before. The people here did not all earn their survival the way his group did. Some of them are not ready for what a real emergency looks like. Volume 14 of the New York Times bestselling series strips away the illusion that walls are enough and forces every character to answer the same question: when everything collapses at once, who do you become?
Genres: fiction, survival, horror, thriller, post-apocalyptic, graphic-novels-comics
Vibes: character-driven, dark, gritty, suspenseful, tense, visceral
Tropes: found-family, internal-conflict, leadership-crisis, survival-against-odds
Setting: Alexandria Safe Zone
136 pages · Paperback · Image Comics
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence