But I’m not a fan of this new approach of cramming the pages with 12 panels ostensibly to show in four panels at a time the various subplots Kirkman’s got going on.

I thought he might try some shenanigans but nope, even Negan’s dull in this one.Ĭharlie Adlard’s art is good, especially some of the splash pages showing the numbers of the dead the Whisperers have at their disposal. Not even Negan roaming free among Rick’s group - with weapons! - livens up the story much. Carl and Lydia have relationship problems - snooze. Repetitive fighting takes up most of the book with little else going on. I’m surprised they went out to fight hand-to-hand at all when they could’ve just dug in, sat on the wall and shot at the enemy with their rifles but I guess Robert Kirkman needed to manufacture “tension” somehow. Guess who wins? Yup! The Whisperer War is barely a couple of battles, let alone a “war”, and a boring volume to boot! Sure, Rick’s side loses a few peeps (nobody anyone will miss) but it never felt like they were in any trouble.

Yeah, I loves me a good one-sided fight, really puts you on the edge of your seat, that’s why the Ronda Rousey/Amanda Nunes fight was the best ever! Damn, already broke my resolution to be less sarcastic this year. It’s Rick’s crew vs The Whisperers, the nutters who wear zombie skin and live among the zombie herds! Rick’s guys have guns, swords, horses, and walled communities The Whisperers have bows and arrows, knives, zombies and live in the woods. It's not bad, but I wish Kirkman would just stick to one (or three!) plotlines at a time. But if you were hoping for something different from Volume 27.? If you're fine with that (and most days I am) then I think you'll love this installment. The gist of this volume is that these guys have to not only fight zombies but each other.Īnd, let's be honest, that's the plot of every one of these volumes so far. <-and it doesn't actually look easy at first! But with all the survivors spread out in the different communities, and all the infighting and backstabbing, banding together to fight the horde isn't as easy as it first looks. The group is now looking at a full-scale attack from the Whisperers, thanks to Negan. But seriously? 10,000 of these little nobody I give a shit about panels really worked my nerves by the end of the book. I know they're from that weird Kingdom place where they dress up like extras from Medival Times. Instead of focusing on one or two plot threads, Kirkman kept hopping back and forth between random characters that I didn't even know to give me snippets of conversations that I didn't care one way or the other about. It seemed (to me) that with a cast of characters this huge something got lost this time around. Which is odd because I normally love this title no matter how little action is happening on the pages, but this time around I just.eh. Even Negan's awesomeness couldn't quite drum up the usual amount excitement for me in this volume.

The walking dead volume 27