A change of pace in this volume. This has a much more relaxed pace than the previous volumes. Our heroes are well and truly settled in the prison. As you might guess from the cover, the pregnant character (Rick's wife Lori) is about to give birth.
Other than that, they go on a successful foraging trip that nets them plentiful supplies and a brief skirmish with more Woodbury folk.
However, there's an underlying tension. This is the Walking Dead after all. Something's got to be on its way. The last page fulfils the promise of the title. This is the calm. The next issue is going to be one hell of a storm. One of the best cliffhangers to date.
This issue also proved that knowledge of the tv series is no guide to what's going to happen here. Lori's birth in the tv show was a traumatic affair. In this it was a happy occasion. Meanwhile, one of the mainstays of the tv show died quite horribly. No one is safe any more. The only death I know for certain when it happens is now poor Glenn.
I know what happened in the tv version when it got to this point... what's going to happen next is suddenly a mystery.
These are such good cheat reads, and I think there's something like 40 more volumes. I wonder if I can read them all by the end of the year.
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