The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer (v. 8) | Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer (v. 8) | Robert Kirkman | Volume 8 goes off the rails

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	The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer (v. 8) Robert Kirkman Image Comics, 2008 - 136 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More Bodies & Tears than any Previous Volume.

Made to Suffer,
and suffer you shall.
More characters die in this one volume than all the previous volumes combined!!!
So many that your heart and your stomach will take-up permaneant residence in your throat!!
By the concluson, I GUARANTEE you will shed tears like a cumulonimbus!!!
This volume has ensured that this series is in fact the greatest zombie story ever told!!
Better than World War Z?!?!?!
YES!!!
Better than Night of the Living Dead!?!?!?!
YES!!! It's better than anything Romero has ever touched!!!
Here's why:
Neither a feature-length movie,
nor any given novel (IMHO) has the time to develop it's characters like an ongoing comic does.
And that's the most important aspect of horror, is it not??
the attachment to it's characters soon to become fodder.
And this series has created characters you WILL love
& you WILL dearly miss when they meet their inevitable, gorey demise.

If you are a zombie fanatic and you don't own this series yet,
your status in now under evaluation.
Do I have your attention yet!?!?!

This volume has almost nothing to do with the undead.
But it has everything to do with the living.
Last we saw Rick and company,
the Governor was at the prison gates,
......with a tank.
This volume depicts the pandemonium that ensues.
The battle for the prison.
And man I gotta tell ya....it is obscenely psychotic.
The insanity never lets up for even a page.
Halfway through I nearly hyperventialted!!!
This is the most intense volume of the series,
This is the volume that changes everything,
and with it we the reader, as well as Rick and company,
are made to suffer through the artocities of man.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Even in a world of blood-thirsty zombies...
Man is still the greatest monster of all.

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Volume 8 goes off the rails

First the series as whole is one of the greatest looks not only at what happens during a zombie apocalypse, but what happens after as people try to pick up their lives. It is very character driven and really the zombies are just a supporting role, Kirkman's macguffin. So really just go get the first one if you have not already.

On to this installment, spoilers below for previous installments, but not for this one.

When we last left our heroes they were back in the unsure safety of their prison. They had survived, barely, their last brush with the governor. Now the governor returns with a vengance, having barely survived his brush with the bad a**, sword wielding Michonne.

What can I say, if you thought the volume 7: the calm before was a little slow, this is your payoff. I don't know how this volume could have suprised me more. I don't know what I will do until the next one comes out. Maybe I will have to start getting the comics as they come out faster than the combined volumes. Everything you thought you knew about the rules of horror stories is thrown out the window. Good becomes bad, bad becomes good and no one is safe.

First this series really seemed a morality tale of how a good cop like Rick could turn into someone who would do evil to protect his family. Now morality is thrown out the window. Everything is about survival.

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Pure carnage

For zombie story splatter-fans who may have felt that this book was getting a little plot-heavy and lacking in the gore department, this volume provides all the blood, guts and exploding heads you could ever want. It's not the slow-moving zombies who are doing all the killing, though: this time it's all about human-on-human violence, as a militaristic rival band of survivors -- led by their pure-evil, super-sadistic Governor -- descend on our hero Rick and his band of refugees. All the character development that author Robert Kirkman has invested in the series pays off in horrific emotional dividends, as one hero after another falls prey to the madness of war. Indeed, you'll be busier trying to figure out who *didn't* get killed than the other way around.

This is a harsh storyline, cruel, unrelenting, unapologetically tragic -- and genuinely gross. Indeed, there are at least three grueling sequences that literally made me nauseous while reading them. If you want some real, hardcore horror, Kirkman really delivers on this one. And, boy, I can't wait to see what happens next! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews)

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Wow - almost too much!

I've been a huge fan of the series - and while obviously a zombie series is going to be a gore-fest, this one left me almost taken aback. It feels like every panel contains a brutal, often unexpected murder. It created a dichotomy of feelings for me - on the one hand, I was rivetted by what was unfolding. On the other hand, I found myself thinking "did they really just show that?" and "did that just happen?" and definitely felt a bit uncomfortable about some of it.

And yet obviously it did something right because I *can't wait* to read the next one, but it almost felt like a giant RESET button was pressed. Let's just say, nothing was sacred here - anyone was fair game.

I will say that I look forward to the "biters" becoming the main danger/focus again after all these struggles with the other surviving camp.

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A New Direction

This title keeps getting better and better. Robert Kirkman wants to shake up the story a bit here and bring it in a different direction. I am looking forward to seeing what happens next.

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