This is more of what I wanted in the last 2 volumes, but it still suffers from the now-rote Walking Dead cycle of quiet calm, build, build, explosion of action and tension, wash, rinse, repeat. Just like the title says, this is a March to War. There is some absolutely brilliant dialogue contained within these pages, and a few good art spreads, but we are on the road to war - still building. Now, I don't need my comics to be all action, all the time, but The Walking Dead seems to be at its best in the quiet moments of reflection on human nature and suffering, and in the middle of balls-to-the-wall survival action. We've been building towards this conflict for several volumes now and my patience is wearing thin.If you've been reading The Walking Dead for nineteen volumes now, I'm sure you'll read it anyway just like I did. But the longer this series goes on without spending more than a few pages here and there growing the characters or moving the plot forward is more justification for me to borrow it from the library rather than buy it for my shelf. I wanted to rate this one 4, because it was very good... but I just couldn't. This series is so terribly plotted overall that it just creeps into everything. The big bad guy here is just the Governor with some different artist choices. The zombies only crop up in maybe one real scene? It just.... it feels like the series is trying to better than it is. I had a feeling in this issue that the author was attempting to channel some GRRM and some SM Stirling and this author just isn't either of those two greats.
What do You think about Walking Dead, Tome 19 : Ézéchiel (2014)?
on of the few books so far that ends in a hopeful note, so of course next one will be horrific. ;)
—eibbed
The battle for survival continues as does the great story and amazing illustrations!
—hamdala
