First published 2006
The prison has started to feel like something worth protecting. Rick Grimes and the survivors have walls, a routine, and enough stability to almost believe the worst is behind them. Then a helicopter goes down on the other side of the fence. Rick cannot leave it alone. He takes a small group out to investigate, walking back into the open world they spent months trying to shut out. What they find is Woodbury, a town that looks like order but runs on brutality. The man in charge goes by the Governor. He is not interested in allies. He is territorial and methodical, and the violence he deals out is calculated in a way that no walker has ever been. Rick, Michonne, and Glenn are taken captive. Back at the prison, no one knows where they are. The threat in this volume is not the dead. It is a man who has decided exactly what kind of world he wants to build, and what he is willing to do to anyone who wanders into it.
Genres: fiction, drama, graphic-novels, horror, thriller, post-apocalyptic
Vibes: claustrophobic, dark, gritty, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, moral-ambiguity, siege-warfare
Setting: The Prison, Woodbury
136 pages · Paperback · Image Comics
Content warnings: death, gore, graphic-violence