Numbers 5 & 6 - The Walking Dead vols 31 & 32

 

And finallly, the saga is finished. 

You could argue that Kirkman cheated on the rebuilding society bit by having Rick and Co stumble across the Commonwealth which was three quarters of the way there and just needed a nudge in the right direction and you'd probably be right.

But that flaw in the storytelling aside, this was a worthy and unexpectly emotional end to the series, I wasn't good enough at escaping spoilers to avoid learning about the major death in one of these two volumes but still when it came it was a real shock.

the final story arc, after the last time jump was a really nice way to tie up all the threads left behind.

These will be making regular trips down from my bookshelves over the coming years.  It's been a great series, the pace it's kept up and the knowledge that not a single character in it is safe has been amazing

I'll soon be returning to the tv version to see how that pans out. In the meantime, I foresee these coming down from the bookshelves for an easy exciting read on many occasions in the coming years.  

I'm genuinely going to miss these characters and that's about as high a compliment as you can pay to a series like this.