A review by jcschildbach
The Walking Dead Book 4 by Robert Kirkman

4.0

To this point, I've given five stars to each of the other volumes. I am a bit unclear as to whether I'm giving four stars as a quality issue on this one, or because I was a little too distressed by the level of chaos and violence that closes out this volume. Maybe I was just caught up in the story and hoping that the band of survivors would hold on to a sense of safety and security a bit longer. There is much left hanging at the end of this volume, including several characters who may or may not be dead--and several who weren't even tracked at all during the final scenes. But potentially worse is that some of the main characters--good and bad--are taken out rather quickly when it might have been more satisfying to have had more made of their passing. Of course, others are taken out slowly and in pretty graphic detail. At the same time, even as I write this, I can clearly call to mind the specific illustrations and panels in which each of the characters were taken out. Hmmm. Maybe I should put five stars up on this one, too. Even in the midst of the chaos and violence, and rather rapid pace of those last sequences, the book was powerful enough to make an impact I didn't realize it was making.