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

It's still awesome

Yeah, I could handle the other volumes, and I'll continue to read this. But I'm over Rick. I'm over the ladies being pathetic. I'm over the stupid pointless introductory drama with Michonne, who should just be a cool bamf. I spent most of this book disliking multiple characters. And I LIKED Tyrese quite a bit, but I'm over the man who can't control his horniness and lets someone blow him because she tempted him, and he couldn't say no. Overdone trope that makes men seem stupid and incapable of rational thought. I'm more angry at that bloody trope than the fact that he cheated on Carol. And why is Carol a bloody trainwreck? And why do none of the women want to have a say in what goes on in the jail? Nope, this volume was annoying on many levels, and it isn't because the characters are going through hard times. Some of them are just annoyingly written.

The inconsistencies with the continuing story and random actions of the characters have made me decide to quit reading the series. I enjoyed the first season of the TV series and for now will continue to watch it. It diverged quite a bit from the comic books.

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.