Great Comics! I love the fact that Kirkman isn’t afraid to kill off anyone.

Why were the twins allowed to roam the prison unsupervised knowing 4 inmates, who for all they really know are pedophiles or worse, are roaming the place?

When they arrived at the helicopter and the survivors appeared to have been taken away by an unknown number of people why would you follow them. Consider it is getting darker and you do not know the intentions or character of the people you are following and in the dark you are likely to stumble into a superior force. You know where the helicopter is, you know the general direction those people went, so you know where their camp might be, withdrawn and return to the prison. The camp would be there the next day or the next week. I would have thought they’d be more leery of strangers by this time. In a survival situation there is a simple rule, “Go with what you Know!” The unknown kills and walking into a situation you have zero control over get’s you dead or worse.

After they escape from the Governor they know those people are going to attack. Rick even says it may be weeks or months but they are coming and we have to be ready. Why didn’t they fortify their position? A prison is designed to keep people in not out. A prison’s big open courtyard is empty so an escaping prisoner has no place to take cover/hide. I mean didn’t Rick learn his lesson about breaking cover in the fist issue. (by the way 2 people cannot surround someone, they can possibly flank them but not surround). Shouldn’t they have used pillowcases to make sandbags, brought all the cars in the parking lot into the courtyard for cover and had an escape plan? There were two busses in the garage they could have used, remove the seats sandbag the inside have it gassed up and ready to go if they are overrun. Over two months is a pretty long time to prepare for an attack you know is coming. Basically they are caught in the open playing basketball.

In the middle of that whole mess the Tyreese beheading made no sense. Rick knows what kind of man the Governor is, why would he believe for a second Michonne is a prisoner? Knowing the Governor you would assume she is dead and even if she were a hostage you would know giving in will mean a death sentence not just for her but everyone, so the only option is to open fire on the Governor and his henchman. Everyone start shooting at him, people with Rifles go for the head. Standing there and watching Tyreese’s head get cut off was dumb. The Governor was there with one other guy, it was their best shot at killing him, and instead they just stand there. I know how good a shot I am and I can tell you even with a rifle with iron sights within 50 yards I could put a bullet through his eye or the patch if you called it and at 100 yards I’d still hit his head.

I can understand where Kirkman wanted to go, I was just disappointed with how he got there. The tank ultimately trumps any makeshift defenses they would have erected and the end result would have been Rick and company fleeing for their lives but I think even a small town deputy would have put up a better defense and fight than the one portrayed in the comic.

And about the series being a bummer:
That’s what zombies are all about!!!

Ever since the first zombie movies zombies have always been the same way. They are a slow death that continuously haunts you until it eventually gets you. It doesn’t matter what you do or where you go, they eventually find you and kil you. That’s why the survivors always lose their heads. They keep on trying to survive and that usually gets them killed. Just look at the new dawn of the dead. Although running zombies went a long way to ruin the zombie feeling the survivor’s were faced with a situation where they were going to die eventually but could hold out for an extremely long time. They, like all others who are faced with the inevitability of their deaths, couldn’t handle it and sought another way out.

That actually sums it up pretty well. Zombies in fiction are a metaphor for death. They are always there and never let up and no matter what you do, they are going to get you eventually.

its not perfect but the fact is, art is subjective and as far as zombie comics goes, the walking dead is pretty good. And complaining about “artists” is pointless. there have been decades of fantastic artists but that doesn’t mean they’re gonna sign up for “B-ROLL” comics. get over it and understand it for what it is or go read something “pretty”.