The Walking Dead Vol. 8

By Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn

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 decimated. No one is safe! Collects issues #43-48.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Image Comics, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 25, 2008
• ISBN: 9781607065401

Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer. His first creation was Battle Pope, which he co-wrote with Tony Moore, and in 2003 they began the comic book series The Walking Dead, set in a George A. Romero zombie movie-inspired world.

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Reviews for The Walking Dead Vol. 8

[m_k_m_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Well that was bleak.It's always been one of The Walking Dead's main strengths that it doesn't shy away from the consequences of the situations into which its characters are placed. When you're under attack from overwhelming numbers and bullets are flying, there is no miraculous escape. I respect the series for that and it means the storytelling has a much more dynamic structure than most ongoing series; as in life things don't subtly evolve, they settle into something that in retrospect looks like stability – but only once some huge event (a birth, a redundancy, a massacre) comes and throws things off in a completely different direction.This is the massive end of a massive chapter of The Walking Dead and the significance of the events perhaps masks the fact that there isn't much substance to this volume beyond death – but given there are now many, many different lumps in which to consume the series I'm sure that's a feeling you only get if you're reading it in these six issue chunks. In any larger volume this will more obviously be a denouement than something that is satisfying in its own right.With only two of the main characters definitely surviving, I've genuinely no idea where the series goes from here. That's terrific storytelling, but it might also mean I have to go and listen to some happy music for a while.

[norabelle414 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

We learn what the Woodbury leadership has been doing in the month or so of relative peace. And what inevitably happens next.Really violent and chaotic, this one. Even as the reader I'm not sure who is still alive and who is not.

[diovival · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Holy f***! Do. Not. Get. Attached...to anyone. The final battle between the prison community and the Governor's Woodbury fighters is brutal and proves that no character gets a free pass to safety.

[akmargie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Giving this issue a 5, just for going there.

[suzemo · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Hooray! Stuff happened! Fast pacing is back!


The governor has some sort of pedophilia/incestuous thing going on with his zombie daughter? Whu? I hope I just read that wrong.

Woodbury attacks! People die all around! The damn baby dies! Lori dies! They are forced to leave the prison!

It's like Walking Dead Christmas for me!



Lots of change, lots of forward momentum, lots of death. Yayz.

[5eva5 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Governor gets patched up after Michonne's "visit," Woodbury finds the prison and attacks repeatedly, Rick is hit but recovers to find half the group gone and grabs whoever he can to get out before Woodbury breaches completely, and two terrible casualties lead to the Governor's end. Such a hectic installment - the stakes are extremely high since the Woodbury people are so well armed and it's such a loss to give up the prison. And then one of the saddest moments in the series take place in this installment too - not sure if it's even possible to read this with dry eyes, but at least the Governor makes up for it a little. A "segue" installment that makes the reader wonder, "Where do we go from here?"

[clark7hallman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Walking Dead, Volume 8, Made to Suffer is a really action-packed and shocking chapter in the Walking Dead saga. The war with the Governor’s town ignites in a deadly and devastating way for Rick’s little band of survivors. The aftermath of the battle leaves the group mourning their losses and makes the reader pessimistic about the survival of the group. It’s a truly great volume in this excellent doomsday-by-Zombies graphic-novel series.

[teewillis1981_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Although I have been on the edge of my seat with The Walking Dead, I must say that Kirkman's quest for realism has left be extremely jaded. Without revealing the end or spoiling this book, I must say I was blown away by the end. I read this one in less than an hour, literally devouring each page. This has got to be the best horror comic I have ever read. READ THIS WHOLE SERIES.

[kayceel_4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Wow. Oh, jeez. Just...wow. This one was good, but oh, jeez did things go badly. Sigh.

[simonlarsen_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This series is getting darker and darker. Without revealing anything about the plot in this one I've just say that I was unpleasantly surprised by one of the plot twists herein.

[teharhynn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazingly written, but traumatizing.