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Rated 5 starsA MOMENT TO BREATHE, BUT JUST A MOMENT
The Walking Dead Vol. 5 "The Best Defense" continues the epic zombie saga as it collects issues 25 - 30 of the regular comic series. Volume 5 is a bit lighter than previous volumes and has a more leisurely pace to it as the survivors have been able to find safe haven in a deserted prison, safe behind layers of chain link fences. The men search the prison to find and destroy the last of the zombies in order to secure the...
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Rated 5 starsThe Best Defense brings new dangers to our small band of survivors.
The fifth volume in Image's The Walking Dead zombie series has finally been released after a very long delay. Does the story collected within this volume worth the long wait for fans of the books? I would say with a definitive yes that it is and was worth the wait. The Best Defense brings the story back to its horrific roots while keeping enough of the emotional travails of Rick and his band of survivors. This graphic novel...
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Rated 5 starsThe road goes ever onward
This ongoing saga continues and continues to impress. Rick and company have settled in at the prison and although there have been numerous traumas both related to the walking dead and to the interpersonal dynamics, the little community seems to be in fairly good shape nowadays. We get our first taste of another survivor group that is not too far from where Rick and company are encamped. Unfortunately, this group is larger...
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Rated 5 starsAnother great chapter in this zombie epic
It's too short, though....! I had just started to get back into the groove of the story when, bam! it was over, with a MAJOR cliffhanger ending. In this fifth volume of Robert Kirkman's magnum opus, the survivors of a zombie invasion have shored up their stronghold in an abandoned penitentiary prison, and things are starting to look up. The emphasis of the first half of the book is on interpersonal relations among the...
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Rated 5 starsWell worth the wait...
Well, it took forever for Image to release "Walking Dead 5: The Best Defense." Thankfully, it was worth the wait. Our heroes are still holed up in their prison fortress, and they're trying to make it homier by restoring electrical power. Glenn and Maggie have discovered some riot gear, which leads to the idea of siphoning gas for the generator from abandoned cars in the prison lot. However, during that operation Rick...
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Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, came out April 19. Swift has a long history of including literary nods in her music and this title suggests her most bookish album yet! Back when she announced the track list, we made some predictions about things. Let's see how we did and explore all of the literary references in her latest lyrics.
Watching the Oscars this weekend? If so, you’ll want to catch up on the literature that served as inspiration for some of the nominated movies. Plus, we share some of our favorite book-to-screen best picture winners from the last quarter century.
The pandemic put many exciting film releases on hold, but movies are back, baby! And, in keeping with our key interests, we've put together a list of upcoming book-to-screen adaptations that we can't wait to see. (But only after we read, of course.)
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