Walking Dead #58

The Walking Dead #58 - Spoilers Included


Are you kidding me? Two months into the new year and Robert Kirkman should be named best writer of 2009 because the past two issues have been unreal. The art continues to be amazing and makes me appreciate the book so much more with a grit and sense of gloom that haunts the survivors.

So this issue we have Rick and Abe playing a game of "you think that is bad, well one time I...".

Abe's story really was heart touching in the sense that here is a guy trying to protect his family and they end up getting raped, hurt and then turning on him when he seeks revenge. You hear these type of stories and the first question that runs through my mind is "what would I do in that situation?" To me that is the sign of incredible writing. I can actually relate to these characters.

I never pictured all that Rick did as that bad until he starts telling all of it at one time and you starting thinking - "Rick you are one crazy dude". He kills a person here and there over 58 issues and you don't think much of it but then you hear it all at once and realize that he has done some bad things.

I love that in the whole game of "I am worse than you" Carl jumps in and trumps both Abe and Rick. This could be laying down a plot line for Carl to do some messed up things especially if Dale & Andrea try to leave the group as they stated.

The group at the camp was relatively quiet other than Dale wanting to leave and Andrea calling Eugene a punk for having a mullet. I still think he is crazy and has nothing to do with the zombie situation.

Good to see Moran again but I really thought he would be a zombie and Duane would be dead. That was another sad moment to see that Morgan was killing people and feeding them to his son. At least he hadn't pulled out his teeth to kiss him (Governor you are missed). So Morgan is going back with Rick and Abe so we have our token black male to prove Kirkman isn't raciest.

I cannot recommend this book enough to people. This is comic books at there best and even beyond that it is writing and visual art at the top of it's game. Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard thank you for each and every month giving me the best $3.00 investment a person could ask for. The Walking Dead - that is my economic stimulus plan