4 Stars.
Pros: This is one of the more surprising volumes, it definitely keeps you guessing.
Cons: This volume is not for the faint of heart/Also Lori's overreactions and bitchiness towards Carol could be blamed on pregnancy hormones or she's just a bitch, not sure which it is.
Full Review:
Time has passed and friendships are more or less mended. The group has made their way through the prison and are more or less setting up shop. Glen and Rick go to siphon gas out of the cars in the prison parking lot to put into the generator when they see a helicopter in the sky. They watch it crash and so Rick, Glen and Michonne decide to go and see if there are any survivors.
While they're gone, Carol makes an interesting proposition to Lori, who basically calls her insane, cause yeah, it's a weird proposition. And the rest work on target practice and getting the generator turned on.
Of course the real action is while Rick, Glen and Michonne find the wrecked helicopter, they also find a large amount of footprints in the wreckage, which means there were other people there, close by, to find the survivors. So they follow the trail until they reach a small town, a mile away, called Woodbury. It's led by a man who's deemed himself the Governor.
The town has everything, even electricity and it turns out that they hold special "fights" for entertainment purposes. They let two people go into the arena, beat the Hell out of each other and whoever doesn't make it, is fed to the zombies that are chained up in the arena. Rick, Glen and Michonne are horrified at the fact that they're keeping zombies around and actually "feeding" them and when asked what it is that they feed the zombies, the Governor replies with, "strangers."
He knows their "story" of having just simply survived in the wilderness is bullshit and he wants to know where it is they come from and what it is they have. Rick refuses to talk and so, the Governor promptly cuts off his hand. Michonne attacks the governor and bites off his ear before she and Glen are dragged away. The Governor takes Rick to the infirmary to have him patched up so he doesn't bleed to death, as he wants him alive so he can get all the information out of him.
The Governor then goes and pays a visit to Michonne and Glen can hear everything in the cell next door. After his visit with Michonne, the Governor goes back to his place and it turns out that his daughter is a zombie but he's keeping her around and feeding her flesh. He also has the severed heads of people mounted in aquariums along his wall. He is truly a sick, sick man.
Rick eventually wakes up and manages to get the story out of the doctor that patched him up. The Governor was the leader at first but then he just kind of went sideways and it was obvious he was demented. The doctor does what he asks because he keeps the people at Woodbury safe. The Governor comes in at that moment and tells Rick that he doesn't have to worry about anything anymore, that he let Glen go and he knows exactly what he'll go now that he's been released. He'll go back to the prison that they're staying at.
It's all a ruse though. Someone comes back to the prison in the riot gear that Glen had found at the beginning of the volume but it's Tyreese, who had gone out looking for Rick, Michonne and Glen. He's convinced they're still alive and until he sees their bodies, nothing will convince him otherwise. Meanwhile back at Woodbury, the Governor knows that he's convinced Rick that he knows about the prison, just from the look on his face, and so he'll start asking around and see if anyone knows anything about a prison in the area.
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