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4.5
There are spoilers below so if you don't want to know please stop reading now.I was first introduced to the Walking Dead by the TV show and fell in love with it immediately. It was well after I'd gotten pretty far in to the show I learned it was based off comic books. After seeking out the comics and starting to read them I discovered they are similar but yet very different from the TV show. In this 3rd book our group of survivors are safe and snug in the prison. But then on a routine zombie clean up they see a helicopter and see it crash. So they go after it. Now Woodbury is discovered and Michonne, Glenn and Rick are taken captive. Rick's had gets cut off, this was a real shock to me, in the TV show it was Darrel's brother who loses his hand. Also the Governor does horrible things to Michonne. Rape and torture are his main goals. In the TV show it was Maggie who was almost raped by him and Glenn who broke down in front of them. I also notice that the time is flying by in the books but it doesn't seem like it should. I'm just missing where each comic stops and then the next starts. I did enjoy Michonne's payback to the Governor and the things she did to him. When she pulled his nails off I flinched. The thought of that just turns my stomach. And how he loses his eye is very different from the TV show. Still there is no Darrel in the comics and I do miss him. He is my favorite survivor. Also Michonne is different from the TV show. The comic version she talks to herself, like she has split personality and she just seems very off. The TV version of her was much more together, she didn't strike me as being crazy. I still don't like Lori, which hasn't changed from the TV show. Her constant being ticked off because Rick is being leader and leaving is driving me crazy. I'm wondering if she's going to die in the comic like she did in the TV show. Also Carl is much younger in the comic. He doesn't behave grown up and responsible like he does on TV.As I've said in my reviews of the other books, if you are a Walking Dead fan, than you need to read these. At the end of this comic I'm leaning towards liking the TV show better. But the comic was excellent and I look forward to the next one in the series.
