Part of The Walking Dead
First published 2011
The walls of the Alexandria Safe-Zone are down. Bodies are scattered across ground that was supposed to be safe. Rick Grimes moves through the wreckage of No Way Out, the assault that proved every promise he made about survival was fragile. He helped hold the community together once. Now he has to do it again for people who watched it collapse in front of them. Some survivors made it through. Others did not. The ones still standing grieve in different ways, and not all of them believe another attempt at normalcy is worth the cost. Rick has spent years arguing that walls and rules and hard work add up to something real. That argument is harder to make when the walls just failed. Collecting issues 85 through 90 of this Eisner Award-winning series, Volume 15 stays close to the survivors during the stretch after catastrophe when the fighting has stopped. The dead are not the problem here. The problem is deciding whether the people left alive still want to build something together.
Genres: drama, survival, graphic-novels, horror, post-apocalyptic, comics
Vibes: dark, emotional, gritty, introspective, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, rebuilding-civilization, survival-against-odds
Setting: Alexandria Safe-Zone
132 pages · Comics · Image Comics
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence, violence