The Walking Dead Volume 9: What Doesn't Kill

Description

The group splits when they are forced to leave the prison, Rick is down for the count and left alone, Carl is surrounded by the living dead...

Afterword by Pär Thörn

"In the current volume of The Walking Dead, escapism runs like a red thread. The rational thing in this very grim zombie-filled world becomes, paradoxically enough, both to be completely aware of all dangers, but also to try to escape the seriousness of the moment, to imagine that it actually exists a hope, despite the fact that the situation is experienced as completely fruitless.Even if this flight touches on the absurd, almost insane, it is an attempt to keep the real madness at bay.

"Despite the eternal darkness of The Walking Dead, I would consider it a hopeful series, though not in the direct action, but on a meta level: That while reading we can reflect on our own situation. Reflect on the necessity of moving between memories and forgetfulness, realism and escapism, rationality and irrationality. The necessity of tapping into our chaotic interiority, our fragmented selves, our hope and our hopelessness."

- Pär Thörn

Review

"A deep exploration of the human interior that, to my knowledge, no other comic book has ever come close to."

- Jonas Knutsson, bookfetischist.se