Storyline: The Walking Dead #50
Date: June 25, 2008
Price: $2.99 US
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Rus Wooton

Synopsis: The five-oh. It’s been a long time coming, but Kirkman has made it to issue 50 with the little zombie book that could. In this issue we follow Carl, left slightly alone since last issue. Read catch up, because I’m not spoiling it for anyone who waits for the trades.

Anyway this issue sees Carl dealing with the ramifications of last issue, as well as coming into his own as a character. It’s been a long time coming. In all honesty, I’ve never cared for Carl until this issue. He’s always seemed like a pain in the ass background character with a cowboy hat. Not anymore. Not at all.

Opinion: I want to let it be known that I love zombies. Anything to do with zombies I tend to read, absorb and spit back out in a morphed form in a story. The Walking Dead is perhaps the only good zombie story currently being printed and it deserves all the praise it’s fan base gives it.

Kirkman has a way of portraying the zombies as a background character and bring humans to the surface. You don’t see this too often in stories following the ambulatory deceased. Normally it’s the same old crap over and over again. Dead rise, eat the living and all we get to see is some action story without any heart.

Read my full review after the jump.

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