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| The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made To Suffer (Walking Dead) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn
Publisher: Image Comics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 6.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1582408831
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781582408835
ASIN: 1582408831
Publication Date: July 16, 2008
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The series that created the zombie movement reaches its most pivotal, series-altering arc yet! They thought they were safe in the prison. They were wrong. A force far more deadly than the walking dead is at their door and when the dust settles, their rank will be reduced by more than half. No one is safe!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 The just and the unjust perish together... July 9, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been following "The Walking Dead" since the first trade paperback. I'm so devoted to this series that I bought a newly released collection while on vacation in Sweden a couple years ago because I couldn't wait to catch up. I wasn't sure what direction Mr. Kirkman would take after the last collection's apocalyptic final page, but he has certainly gone to the dark side with this volume. That man has *no* mercy. Wow.
In a flashback we see The Governor, body horribly maimed by Michonne but hateful soul intact, marshalling his forces against Rick's enclave using blatant lies and force of will. Suffice to say that he's more twisted now than ever, especially given the depths he's sunk to in his relationship with the little girl zombie he keeps leashed up at home. Between her and his "entertainment system," we see that he's more comfortable relating with the undead than with the living.
After we return to his assault on the prison, things get even nastier. No quarter is asked, and none given. Familiar characters are brutally murdered, badly wounded, spiritually broken, or flee for their lives. What makes this volume so devastating is that many longtime players are lost or forever damaged, even some that have been around since day one. And of course, the undead feast on anyone unlucky enough to get in their way (talk about survival of the fittest). As with most zombie stories, the undead aren't really the villains. Indeed, the living are more gruesome and do the most heinous deeds by far.
In the end, we have yet another of Mr. Kirkman's trademark cliffhangers, one that tops all the previous ones in its horror and desolation. I don't know what Mr. Kirkman snorts while writing these stories, but it must be some hardcore stuff. Absolutely recommended - but not for kids or the faint of heart.
Governor of the Dead July 8, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Most of the folks here already know that The Walking Dead saga is a compilation of stories by Robert Kirkman that expand on the story that is well know to any zombie movie fan....The main story. The one started in earnest by George Romero in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead [and was later remade in 1990 (the version that I prefer) by Tom Savini (with Romero oversight)].
The Walking Dead Volume 8 continues the story of former Normal-World Police Officer Rick Grimes and those that he comes in contact with in a New World...a world that has been over-run by zombies.
I'd agree with you if you thought that maybe The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before took a major pause in the epic series to focus less on zombies and more on what happens to society, its morals, laws and standards when government is lost and the planet becomes mostly uninhabitable.
You'll probably recall that previous volumes in the series showed how venturing out of the confines and security provided by the characters' home (established in Volume 3) are less than safe. The new zombie-infested world is dangerous not only because of the hordes of undead, but outside the gates await unfathomable chaos and horror in the pockets of societies of other survivors (see Volumes 5 and 6)....Especially in Volume 6 where survivors in desperate situations do the unthinkable to stay alive (or entertained).
By the end of Volume 6 we thought that one of the major threats to the primary group of survivors that the series follows had been removed. But what fan of the series can forget the cliffhanger of a last page from Volume 7? Volume 7 was appropriately named "The Calm Before", because Volume 8 is indeed a storm. Volume 8 picks up right from the shocker of a final Volume 7 page and relentlessly presents a war...not between the undead and man...but between two societies of the living in a world gone mad.
There's real, heartfelt emotion in The Walking Dead series combined with believable scenarios. I was never a big comic book guy prior to this series. Now I'm singing a different tune. This comic book series blows the doors off of a lot DVDs that I've wasted time with, and it's introduced me to a whole new entertainment media.
Anyway, the volume releases of The Walking Dead are like reading a screenplay with storyboards of a version of Night of the Living Dead that began simultaneously, but in a different part of the country (much like George Romero's late 2007 release, Diary of the Dead). Yes, The Walking Dead is kind of a rip-off of a story (stories) already told, but the key is that it's done very very well. The zombies are true to the original Romero creation: slow and stupid as opposed to the fast and thinking "infected" in (28 Weeks Later / 28 Days Later) or the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Each Walking Dead volume only takes about an hour to get all the way through, and they leave you wanting more. And they seem to keep coming; I think that issues 49 - 55 will likely comprise Volume 9 (with issue 55 due in Sept '08), so unfortunately, as of this writing, only #49 - #53 are published. The wait begins.
Volumes 1 - 8 are all available individually. A hard cover combination of Volumes 1 & 2 is out (The Walking Dead Book 1, a hard cover combination of Volumes 3 & 4 is out (The Walking Dead, Book 2), and Volumes 5 & 6 are now combined in Hardcover (The Walking Dead Book 3).
Anyone in need of a very well done zombie fix that you don't put into your DVD player should absolutely get down with The Walking Dead sickness. Add it to your cart, but be sure to start with Volume 1 and read them chronologically.
More Bodies & Tears than any Previous Volume. July 23, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
The most brutal chapter yet July 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Robert Kirkman continues to amaze with this saga. This Volume is by far the most brutal, gut wrenching, and in a lot of ways, most satisfying of the lot. There are no punches pulled here and no one is safe when the Governor comes riding up to the prison gates where Rick and company have lived in relative safety for quite a long time.
We expected this and it has finally come. I do not like giving away details or spoilers but I think no one should be surprised that things change dramatically and quite permanently for all the characters.
I can't help but believe that from what I have seen with this story that this is arguably one of the best, if not the best zombie story ever written or filmed. That it is not over (and I have no idea when if ever Kirkman plans on bringing things to a close) only adds to my fascination with it.
 I'm done with this series. August 11, 2008
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've been reading Walking Dead for some time now; it introduced me to Kirkman's work with Invincible and a friend of mine loaned me Marvel Zombies and the Ash crossover which were both entertaining.
However, this book ended my interest in the series. I will not read another Walking Dead comic or pick up another trade. I simply don't care anymore.
Many reviews mention that prominent characters die, that bad guys come back, etc.
The work is gory (it's a zombie comic, I wasn't expecting Little Lulu) and says a lot about humanity (as much as I'd love to think that EVERY human would band together in a situation like this, I doubt that will happen because some people ALWAYS want power).
However, The Walking Dead had settled in somewhat as a comic about how life can continue when everything falls apart - while there's no reason to think that life wouldn't be filled with conflict, struggle and drama, ESPECIALLY in that world, we had grown to know these characters, care about them, etc. They had found some semblance of safety.
And Kirkman blew it all up. While not doing anything would have basically turned the comic into a serial / soap opera about who was sleepig with who and who ate more than their share of tomatoes, Kirkman destroyed their sanctuary, killed off roughly half the characters and turned the rest loose into the wilderness.
All of which is fine and dandy, but killing off characters that I had come to care about in the context of the comic turning the rest loose doesn't mean I have to follow. While almost all of the reviews of this book on Amazon are glowing, I don't know anyone who was reading Walking Dead who kept reading it after this volume came out, and I also know people who were reading who - after being warned - stopped before this volume. The standard warning given out at the local comic shop lets people know that it's a bloody, savage, unpleasant end for most of the people and that new mothers ESPECIALLY might want to avoid it.
Honestly, I wish I was one of the people who had avoided it, but I picked it up about two days after it was released and that warning wasn't being given out then.
I'm not arguing that this collection is not worth reading because of gore or morals or anything of the sort - I'm simply saying that if you enjoyed this series, if you enjoyed the characters, that many of them die in brutal, horrifying ways and your reason for reading this series will be significantly reduced, if not eliminated. Take that for what it's worth.
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