This week saw the publication of the seventeenth Walking Dead collection, Something to Fear. Robert Kirkman really is the absolute master of holding out a tiny, frayed thread of hope and then snatching it away from you. For years I’ve read these books, watching this vivid, gripping world turn to ruin and cruelty and entropy; cheered for the small, bright moments; dared to hope that things were going to improve, the dark give way to dawn.
Yeah, like that’s going to happen. If you’re following the TV show, you’ll have met the Governor, who is a king-hell villain of the first water.
He’s not a patch on the bad guys in volume 17.
Further, deponent sayeth not.
The Walking Dead Vol 17: Something to Fear