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The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living.
Life in the prison starts to get interesting for Rick Grimes and the rest of our survivors. Relationships heat up, fizzle out, and change entirely almost overnight. By the end of this volume, relationships between key characters are radically changed, setting the stage for future events in TheWalking Dead.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image Comics; Illustrated edition (November 30, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1582405301
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1582405308
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 0.4 x 10.1 inches

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First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time and is the #1 show on television among the coveted 18-49 demo. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success.

Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week’s episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.

He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Kirkman’s popular demonic-exorcism comic, Outcast, was adapted, produced and airs on Cinemax.

For the big screen, Kirkman will produce Invincible based on his long-running popular comic book. The project will be written, directed and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Universal Pictures. Other credits include AIR featuring Norman Reedus and Academy Award nominee, Djimon Hounsou.

Additional Kirkman comics include Super Dinosaur, Battle Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves.

Robert is also the Chairman of Skybound Entertainment. Robert, an advocate for creator rights, co-founded Skybound alongside his longtime business and producing partner David Alpert in an effort to ensure creators are able to maintain their intellectual property rights and creative control.

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Adam Mahler

We are the walking dead

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 11, 2023

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Rick made good points with his actions this time. The group might not agree but the world has changed for the worse.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2023

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This is so easy to read and good to understand

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Introducing Michonne and a Prison Smack-down

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2012

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Taking place immediately after the events of the previous volume, SAFETY BEHIND BARS, WALKING DEAD, VOLUME 4: THE HEART'S DESIRE collects issues 19-24 of "The Walking Dead" comic books. The book opens with a prologue of sorts and features a hooded woman with katanas and a couple of chained jawless zombies behind her following the sound of gunshots. The shots come from Hershel's son Otis, who remained on the farm to take care of the animals, but is now headed towards the prison for safety. He's surrounded by zombies, but with the woman's help, they are able to fend them off. The woman is Michonne and she will become a major character in the ongoing storyline.

Meanwhile, back at the prison, Dexter, one of the former prisoners, has given Rick and his crew an ultimatum: leave or be shot. However, Dexter's companions aren't as intelligent as he is and they didn't close and lock the prison doors after getting weapons from the armory. That forces Rick's group and the prisoners to join forces to fight back the swarming zombie hordes. In the confusion of the firefight, Rick shoots Dexter in the head. Tyreese sees this happen, but keeps silent. Shortly after, Otis and Michonne arrive at the prison and Michonne asks if she has earned a place with the group. Rick agrees, but only if she agrees to temporarily give up her katanas and kill the zombies on chains. The rest of the book deals with the drama that has been boiling up among the group for several issues back. This volume concludes with a hard-core fight between two core members, a changeup of the group's leadership, and the declaration that the real walking dead are actually the living humans.

THE HEART'S DESIRE moves at a slightly different pace than the previous volumes in "The Walking Dead" series. There's not as much action as in the other volumes and, like SAFETY BEHIND BARS, almost the entire story takes place at the prison. The overarching story arc is focused more on the interpersonal relationships of the characters and there's a lot more soap opera-type drama that happens. The main thing that makes THE HEART'S DESIRE stand out is that it is the volume that introduces Michonne.

Overall, THE HEART'S DESIRE contains more drama and not as much action as the previous volumes in "The Walking Dead" series. However, despite the soap opera feel through much of the book, the introduction of Michonne and the fight between two of the characters makes the book a worthy entry into the series.

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Cleaning (The Big) House

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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 4 continues the story of Police Officer Rick Grimes and his band of normal-world-refugees as they settle into their new home. And it's time to clean house. Clean house of some bad prior residents. Clean house of some undead residents. And clean house of rules made prematurely...like, "You kill, you die." That rule clearly just won't do in The New World.

In volume 4 relationships are forged and strengthened, and relationships are betrayed and broken. A new character (Michonne) is introduced, and she brings with her a strange (split?) personality, a dose of unrest for the gang and--most oddly--an unexplained ability to seemingly tame the undead.

I'm not a regular comic book reader. But I was drawn to The Walking Dead by the volume releases that bring the convenience of being able to get several chapters of the story without the month to month waiting for each issue. And I am now hooked.

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. Yes, it's 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 28 Days Later (2002) or 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead fast and thinking zombies.

Each volume takes under an hour to get all the way through, and they leave you wanting more. Volumes 1 through 5 are all available individually. A hard cover edition of volume 1 & 2 is out and a hard cover edition of volumes 3 & 4 is scheduled for early 2007. Volume 6 is scheduled for release the last week of February 2007; I have no info on a hard cover release of volumes 5 & 6, but I'm sure that it will happen if you prefer to wait.

So 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.

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Fran Baker

It's Like A Whole Different Story

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I love how this graphic novel is so very different from the show. I love TWD on AMC don't get me wrong, but reading these graphic novels.... Man, it makes the characters on the TV show seem like marshmallows. SOFT.

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All the pressure is finally starting to get to Rick and everyone can see that he is starting to crack. Him and Tyreese become at odds with each other after tragedy strikes and the whole camp is building with tension. The prison is a great place for them to be compared to the RV, but it is not without it's own challenges.

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amazon app is not good at all

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2013

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Ok the title might seem misleading.
I bought this book on my ipod they say that i'm eligible to get one day shipping. One day shipping that would be cool. but if only they told whats the price. Jeez, I bought the book and its only nine buck but the shipping is like twenty dollars, not worth the one day shipping. I don't mind waiting to save an extra buck. I just wished that amazon could of gave me an option just like on the PC version to see the prices and choose an shipping option. It's annoying especially you thought you were going to save money and you would thought they would give you convenience because its on a app.

my three starts goes to the book it would be 4 but the price for the shipping is stupidly high
p.s. I live in Washington and just so guys know amazon is stationed here and they shipped it FROM Seattle. I mean COME ON 20 bucks for an hour drive from one location.

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kevin williams

walking dead

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 18, 2006

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Not since reading Lucifer Wars by Stuart Vowell have i been so gripped. robert kirkman certainly knows his stuff when it comes to zombies and this is no exeption to the series. Each magotty creaking stiff that almost comes out of the page will make your flesh crawl. If this one doesn't make you laugh then you're already dead.

Hades123

The Walking Dead Volume 4

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2013

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Make no mistake - this is one of my best "buys" of recent months. I hadn't read any of TWD comics before but had heard many good things about them. I therefore decided to buy the first four volumes as a "taster". I loved the books and actually ended up buying the much larger Compendium books (volumes 1 & 2) which collate the all of the "Volume" books up to Volume 15 or thereabouts. So my suggestion is: if you are intent on buying this, go ahead - the quality of paper, binding and print is fantastic. That said, if you think you might get "hooked" on these comics, you may want to go for the two Compandium books, which are even better value for money.

Vj

Good character development

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 16, 2015

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I decided to read the comic books after being an avid fan of The Walking Dead tv series for years.
Volume 4 looks at the characters in probably the most detail so far in my opinion. A couple of major things happen but nothing gorily-action packed. The stand off at the end of Volume 3 is wrapped up pretty quickly and the character development really gets pushed to the forefront. As with most shows/ book, some characters are just more interesting than others. Here, I would say there are more interesting characters than boring which makes for some interesting dialogue throughout.
Overall, a well timed development of the central characters.

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H M Reynolds

Zombies!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 23, 2015

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Liked these books, although the TV adaptation has refined them into something better.

Found this series a little tiring in a way, because all the characters die after a while, so you sometimes wonder what the point of following them is - at least on the TV series they occasionally have a few weeks of peace on a farm or starting a community in a prison.

But my main complaint is that I did not think of the idea first - I started writing a zombie novel only to discover these graphic novels had got there first, rendering my idea redundant!

Jordan Louise Scott

This one frustrated me a little

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 2, 2020

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This book, the characters in it really did my head in. They actually infuriated me with their decisions. But I think that was where the author was headed with this. But for me personally, it pushed me away from emotionally connecting with the characters.

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