Iambaytor Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 wait, is he having an ongoing mini, or is in it the book proper? can't be the latter, i don't think i'm more than an issue behind https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/15736169/Here_s_Negan_(1-4) It's a back-up in issues of Image+, it's meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) Negan mini is okay, but frustrating as it's being released in 4pg increments each week. I think the story totals 48pgs. I also saw these mini issues on youtube of all places. Negan totally fits as a coach before the zombpocalypse. The affair and how it ended was a good bit of character development, too. Interesting to see how he developed his odd code of morality before the dead began walking. Anybody reading Whisper Wars? Part two just came out today and I'm about to dive into it... Edited September 8, 2016 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I was hoping it was going to be a weekly like the Negan wars one but the letters column said not to expect the next issue until the first week of October so that sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) Yeah, my bad on that. It's being published monthly. Image Comics and Diamond Comic Distributors are pleased to announce Image+, an all-new monthly magazine which will feature Image’s upcoming releases, as well as bonus creator-owned comics content. Each issue will be distributed with Diamond’s PREVIEWS Catalog each month, with the first issue of Image+ available in May. Each of the first twelve issues of Image+ magazine will feature an original, four-page THE WALKING DEAD story concerning Negan’s origins, and created by New York Times bestselling team Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, for a total of 48 pages of backstory. So it'll be next May before the origin story is over. I'm guessing Kirkman will publish a standalone collected volume or maybe put half in The Whisper Wars trade and the other half in the trade following after that. Edited September 10, 2016 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I think I'm still a few issues behind, but I had to get a little caught up Just saw Negan cutting off Alpha's head. I'd love to see this be an actual development for him toward a (twisted) path to redemption. It's fun either way, but the reader has seen him alone and he seems legit with wanting to get in good with Rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 I think I'm still a few issues behind, but I had to get a little caught up Just saw Negan cutting off Alpha's head. I'd love to see this be an actual development for him toward a (twisted) path to redemption. It's fun either way, but the reader has seen him alone and he seems legit with wanting to get in good with Rick. After seeing Negan's use of Lucille in living color on TV, I'm hoping Rick makes good on what he said to Negan back when they first met. Take Michonne's katana and hack him to pieces, Rick! Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Whisper War is over. Issues 163 & 164. Daaaaamn! Especially #164... This may be my favorite issue in years. Kirkman really stepped up the writing and gave some fantastic character moments to Rick, Negan, Carl, and even fucking Eugene! Coupled with some well paced action and an ominous cliffhanger, well, what more could you ever ask for from a single issue of a comic? Color. The answer is color. But I'm still good with the graytones. Srsly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Issue #167 I admit the deathbed pep talk went on a bit to long and Andrea's toughness to the bitter end was simultaneously frustrating and enjoyable. I was waiting for her to just be vulnerable and show emotion, but you gotta also respect how she was taking car of people even as she died. And no lie, I got a bit misty when Rick walked outta the house and collapsed into Carl then the group shoulder thing was pretty cool. I think the TV show has definitely influenced how they handle "big" deaths in the comic. I swear when I read the letter from Kirkman at the end of the comic I heard Chris Hardwick's voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Looks like I've been talking to myself in this thread since 2016, so it's time for the yearly update. So I just caught up on The New World Order arc that ends with issue #180. I really dig where this is heading. First, it's great to get an arc which has Michonne as the A-story lead. It's also a fairly happy arc for her, until #180. Second, Kirkman is expanding the book's scope beyond tribal wars and basic human reactions to extreme survival situations and more into an examination of what makes not just a community but a society function. I dig it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 yeah...honestly, i needed to drop more books a few months back, and this was one of them. god knows i've dropped it several times over the years & come back later, felt like it was about halfway through new world order and i just realized the cast keeps growing & i don't really care too much. maybe having Invincible finally tie up this year made me feel this one should as well? but kirkman's said for ages now he could practically do this one forever, and god knows even after the show $ stops (well, the main series anyway) i don't doubt he will. watch some big shit go down for issue # 200 and lure me back in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 #192 Spoiler Huh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 Yeah, big shit went down about 8 issues early, innit. #192 RIP Rick Grimes. Taken out by a damned fuckboi. Long Live Carl Grimes. May he reign for another 200 issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 yeah, id dropped the book a while back, came back just to watch this go down - kirkman always warned us it could happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 #193 Spoiler Double huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 Moore>Adlard 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 On 7/3/2019 at 12:46 PM, alive she cried said: #193 Hide contents Double huh. I didn't get to read it b/c my local shop sold out day one. Usually they have two or three issues left, but I missed the hoopla over it because I was preoccupied with life. Now I gotta wait for a second printing like some fucking n00b. shitmyhat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 (edited) I'd recommend torrenting it to avoid spoilers. p.s. Shit all our hats Edited July 9, 2019 by alive she cried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 i mean kirkman wanted out instead of waiting for the big issue #200, and i can't blame him - this could've wrapped up nearly 100 issues back, or he could've dragged it out another 100, it wouldn't have made much of a difference to me. the formula was stale and the cast so ever-expanding that i kept dropping it, and for being a fan of stories reinventing themselves, this felt like an anime that built towards negan and then had post-game filler forever after that. the last issue just jumps into carl's somehow-not-sociopathic future, and hints that heavy is the head that wears his father's crown but he's doing alright, and things will be okay. it's a fine sendoff i guess but it really did kinda feel like this book limped along until kirkman was done checking out. the first page of this thread trips me out now, reading myself hyping this book to everyone 15 years back - but honestly? it didn't need to go 15 years, and i don't say that as much as a slam on kirkman's opus here as the fact that most stories don't need that long, however successful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) On 7/9/2019 at 8:55 AM, alive she cried said: I'd recommend torrenting it to avoid spoilers. p.s. Shit all our hats Luckily I managed to avoid spoilers and torrenting. A friend of mine came through a few weeks back and I got a first print of #193--and a second print that I actually put my greasy fingers on to read. Now I just gotta get that SDCC 2019 variant, right? Seriously though, that SDCC cover just pops so much better. Anyway, as for issue #193... I dug it. It was a bit clunky and overly exposition-y in places, but that's Kirkman's writing style anyway. I think the whole Herschel being a post-apocalyptic pseudo Prof. Marvel from Wizard of Oz was an interesting twist. Maggie basically showing the same weakness as the previous Commonwealth "ruler" in being a pushover for her kid made for some good drama. Seeing Michonne as Uber Judge Judy was also fun--as was Eugene being the great "re-unifier" of America with the re-birth of the railroad. But I think the best part of #193 was how it encapsulated one of the book's main themes so beautifully in one issue--society is fragile, and our memories are short and need constant reminding of its fragility. "The Trials" were not a decade or so gone when people started to forget and get too comfortable or "soft," as Maggie says at one point. Carl Grimes needed to remind them--and he did so in true Grimes fashion--like a fuckin' boss. As much as I would've like 200 issues of Carl kickin' ass across America, I can dig this ending. Kirkman's explanation for it at the end of the book in his editorial was solid. And as Kevin Smith mentioned in a podcast not long ago, Kirkman left a TON of money on the table by not announcing or soliciting #193 as the final issue. Dude put his art ahead of his pocketbook, which is admittedly easier when you're already a millionaire. But it's still fuckin' baller. Respek. Edited August 12, 2019 by Mr. Hakujin booyakasha 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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