The Walking Dead Volume 8: The Storm

Description

The series success continues. The Walking Dead has dominated the US sales charts in recent years: in 2012, 7 of the top 10 spots were a The Walking Dead volume. In this 8th volume, the Governor is back - with a smaller army too.

Foreword by Sara Bergmark Elfgren

"Killing him made me realize one thing – made me see how much I've changed. I was a police officer – my job was to uphold the law.

Now I feel more like a lawless savage – an animal.

Rick puts into words a feeling that many of the characters in The Walking Dead share: beneath the civilized surface of man lurks a beast. Without society's laws and rules, man turns into a drooling beast. The wild. A grunting caveman who clubs down his rivals
and takes what he wants.

Perhaps, in a sense, you can say that it is civilization that has turned us into drooling beasts? If so, it is the brutality of contemporary man that is laid bare in The Walking Dead. I think there is something in it. And I think that's one reason why the series is so captivating and terrifying."

- Sara Bergmark Elfgren

Reviews

"It's one of the darkest, if not the darkest, so far in the series. It hurts to read it. And no, I'm not kidding. It hurts the hell out of me."
- Jonas Knutsson, bookfetischist.se

"The fact that one of the best horror series on the market right now has become even better does not make matters worse."

- Alexander Sanchez, The Kulturen newspaper