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The Walking Dead (Volume 8) Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman

 "The Governor attacks the prison and the consequences are dire."

3 Stars. 

Pros:  The Governor gets his in the end, not as painful and slow as you would want, but, he gets his. 

Cons: Every issue seems to contain "what devastating injury can Rick sustain but still survive from" this time, it gets old/Even though I didn't like her as a character, Lori's death came way out of left field, also to kill a baby, yeah, it's just wrong/I feel like the writers just needed a way to conveniently kill off a huge chunk of the group and this was how they did it. 

Full Review: 

The Governor has managed to fill the people of Woodbury's heads with lies about the people from the prison. Saying that they killed Martinez, tortured the Governor and stole all sorts of supplies, so it's only just that the people of Woodbury fight back. That's how he gets them to follow him. 

Meanwhile, back at the prison, the group survives the first attack, but just barely. Rick is, of course, shot but he survives. After the initial attack, Dale, Andrea, Glen and Maggie decide that it's high time they actually went through with their plan and just left the prison. It's not that they want to abandon the others, they just know its' not safe, and since they're now looking after Carol and the twins, they need to do what's best for the children.

Michonne and Tyreese have also taken it upon themselves to go after the Governors men and take out a few of them, as payback. I don't know why they thought that was a good idea. Tyreese is caught but Michonne escapes, though  her whereabouts are unknown.  When Rick wakes up after his surgery, he's devastated to find most of their group gone. 

They do what they can to fortify the prison, knowing that the people of Woodbury will be back. And while they're doing this, a truck pulls up. It's the Governor and he hauls Tyreese out, demanding that they let him into the prison now. He has Michonnes katana and to demonstrate how serious he is, he cuts off Tyreese's head. The group does nothing, they just watch, even though they're horrified and Rick explains that if he had let the Governor into the prison, he would have killed them all eventually anyway. 

The Governor returns to his people and explains that Ricks group are even more savage than he thought. He lies and says they shot their own man (Tyreese) so he couldn't be used as leverage instead of just letting the Governor in. So they decide to attack the prison again. And even though Andrea comes back to try and help, no one makes it out alive, except for Carl and Rick. Even Lori and the new baby Judith are killed. 

The woman who killed them is enraged, calling the Governor a monster and attacking him, saying that he made her shoot a woman and her baby. The Governor turns on her but soon the zombies are surrounding them and they either have to fight each other or the zombies. The woman manages to shoot the Governor and kick him into the crowd of zombies, telling the rest of the people of Woodbury to follow her into the prison. The last we see is an open door with zombies shuffling in, so it doesn't bode well. 

Carl and Rick escape the prison and run into the woods, having to leave Lori and Judith behind.

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