WALKING DEAD #48
Review by: Nate
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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
SPOILERS. Big time.
This might end up being more of a rant than it is a review, but I feel compelled to at least make a statement.
I do love this book, and pretty much have since I started picking it around the second story arc. While the last few story arcs have been meandering, this one has really kicked up the tension as well as the action. The shit has truly hit the fan here and everything is falling apart, literally and metaphorically. As a whole, this was a great topper for this story and really makes you feel like anything can and probably will happen. While the characters have been in the prison for the last 20+ issues, the series has slowed way down. While some may feel that it got boring, I felt that it added to the overall tension, because we all knew it wouldn't last. Well, Kirkman did it and has written a great story and the Charlie Adlard art was excellent in places as always, but other parts, maybe a little exploitive. Which brings me to my point.
Since when did it become cool to show kids and babies being brutally killed? I understand it happens in real life and that sucks, and I know it has to happen in stories sometimes to show that even in a fake world sucky things happen. I even understand that movies, comics and Tv are not real, and these are not real people, but still... Look at "Gindhouse" where a kids pops himself in the face with a gun, or last month's issue of Crawlspace where a zombie is literally chowing down on babies, or in Alien Vs. Predator 2 where we see a pregnant woman have an alien chew through her abdomen which of course also chews through the baby. Even a show like Battlestar Galactica (which I also adore) loves to have kids die (look no further than the pilot, as well as dream sequences and even a fake baby death). Have we shocked people with everything else that we have to resort to cheap tricks to get a response? And maybe it's because I'm a father and it changes my perspective on things more than it would have 3 years ago.
I don't have a problem with the character of Lori and her baby, Judy, die. It sucks obviously for the reader, I think it's terrible for them and terrible for Rick and Carl, but it is important to the story. However, I did not need to see her as well as the baby's guts being blown out on a full page splash. In fact, this entire issue was kind of ridiculous in it's portrayal of violence. Usually Adlard is more reserved in his renderings of carnage, but this felt more like the over the top cartoon work of the old Avatar Comics issues of Friday the 13th with it's eyeballs flying out in mid air along with bits of brain and flying teeth.
Now, I'm not going to stop reading this book, 1, because it's good and 2, this didn't offend me per se. I just felt that this could have been done a better and more tasteful way, instead, what should have been a meaningful and emotional issue came across as crass and cheap.
Am I the only one who felt this way?
Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 3 - Good
Art: 3 - Good
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*** WARNING, THE COMMENT HAS MAJOR, MAJOR SPOILERS TOO! JUST BE WARNED! ***
Hmmm…that totally wasn’t my reaction at all. The violence was pretty intense, but this book has always been that way. I mean, check out that issue where Michonne tortures the governer. Christ, I had to grit my teeth a few times that issue.
So yeah, the violence was definitely front and center this issue, but that full page splash where Lori is shot totally had the effect it was supposed to have on the reader. Kirkman had done his job, drawing our attention to Carl, who I was sure was mere moments from getting a bullet to the brain when you turn the page and BAM…it hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m home alone, and I still said "No way. Nuh-uh! He did NOT!" out loud. It was horrible, graphic, intense and exactly the gut punch that the story called for. I really don’t think it was over the top.
That being said, I’m not a father, so I’m sure that would have some extra effect, but it’s probably testament to the power of this story that it caused such a visceral reaction in you that it caused you to jump on here and write a review about it.
*** WARNING, THE COMMENT HAS MAJOR, MAJOR SPOILERS TOO! JUST BE WARNED! ***
Hmmm…that totally wasn’t my reaction at all. The violence was pretty intense, but this book has always been that way. I mean, check out that issue where Michonne tortures the governer. Christ, I had to grit my teeth a few times that issue.
So yeah, the violence was definitely front and center this issue, but that full page splash where Lori is shot totally had the effect it was supposed to have on the reader. Kirkman had done his job, drawing our attention to Carl, who I was sure was mere moments from getting a bullet to the brain when you turn the page and BAM…it hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m home alone, and I still said "No way. Nuh-uh! He did NOT!" out loud. It was horrible, graphic, intense and exactly the gut punch that the story called for. I really don’t think it was over the top.
That being said, I’m not a father, so I’m sure that would have some extra effect, but it’s probably testament to the power of this story that it caused such a visceral reaction in you that it caused you to jump on here and write a review about it.
Yeah, I can see your point as well. Just goes to show you a good story can bring out all kinds of opinions and reactions that get people talking.
WARNING… SPOILERS
Like Popmatic I too did not feel the same way. If you look back at the full page splash of the big shock the blood and guts is below the baby. I thought maybe the baby was still alive and it was not till the woman crys about "killing a baby" that I knew for sure the baby was dead.
The most that we see of the baby is her hand reaching out from under her mother… now that shot was painful.
With all that said I do agree with you that its a sad day when the only way to shock us is with the death of new born babys.
-Charlie Blix