The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire

1998 • 136 pages

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Rick et son groupe de survivants ont trouvé refuge dans un ancien pénitencier. Après avoir investi et nettoyé les lieux, ils font la connaissance d'anciens détenus et découvrent alors que l'ennemi n'est pas forcément celui que l'on croit. Après avoir neutralisé la menace immédiate d'un dangereux serial-killer au sein même de la petite communauté, Rick, en leader naturel, tente d'établir les nouvelles lois d'une société à visage humain. Œuvre fondatrice du genre en bande dessinée, Walking Dead s'impose par sa qualité d'écriture et son attention portée aux relations entre les personnages de cette incroyable aventure humaine. En effet, au-delà des scènes où apparaît la menace des morts-vivants, les auteurs nous entraînent dans un récit où la survie est l'affaire de tous les instants, et où la moindre erreur peut s'avérer fatale...

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The Walking Dead is a 34-book series with 33 released primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn.

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Cody Scot LaCrone

Now I LOVE these first volumes. Really everything up to Alexandra is some of my favorite comic stuff out there. But I have to knock this volume in a minor way and that's purely because of how it rushes to close out the Prisoner storyline, the rushed way it handles a love triangle, but overall the fight between Tyreese and Rick is great, and of course this volume ends with the titular "WE are the Walking Dead" line from Rick, so it's an important set of issues going forward, it's just not many of my favorite.

It's still awesome

Volume 4 of Kirkman's zombie series watches the characters slider further into despair and moral ambiguity as they attempt to re-build their lives inside the prison that they started to occupy in volume three.[return]The zombies are featured much less in this volume, allowing our human characters a little bit of ‘down time'. In that time, though, we see Kirkman engage in discussions on the sanctity of life, one's place in society, the possibility for redemption, and the role of laws within society. If he keeps up the quality of writing displayed with this book and the last, I think this might end up being the greatest piece of zombie fiction ever created.

March 31, 2008