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The Walking Dead (Volume 21) All Out War Part 2 by Robert Kirkman.

"The Saviors and Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom have their final showdown."

4 Stars

Pros:  It wrapped everything up well pretty much. So now we just wait for the next bad guy to come along. 

Cons: Rick's whole "hero" monologue of "we can fix this world, together" gets real old, real fast. Though, his terms did come with a "surprise." 

Full Review: 

Rick makes a full recovery after suffering a concussion from the grenade blast. And he has to move quickly to get everyone gathered together and over to the Hilltop. While waiting to see if the commotion has died down, the group in the ammunition workshop are overrun by zombies and have to flee. They're caught by Negan and taken prisoner. 

Negan, of course, threatens Eugene but he doesn't give in. And when he's gone, Dwight explains that he's doing what he can from the inside to make sure Negan fails. One of the Saviors overhears Dwight but it turns out that he wants to leave as well. So they start making their escape. 

Once Rick et al are at the Hilltop they combine their forces and await Negan's arrival. He comes, as expected and a firefight ensues. But he's brought in a new equation to the situation. He's had all his men infect their weapons with excretions from the zombies, so that even a scratch from one of their weapons will turn the victim into a zombie. In the fray, Rick is shot in the back by a bolt from Dwight's crossbow. And others who are injured start to fade fast but Rick shows no signs of illness. He's sure that means that Dwight's on their side. 

So he takes a huge gambit and goes out to meet Negan face to face. He explains to Negan that he doesn't want this. That he wants to work together with him to make this world better. To make everything better. He wants to rebuild, not destroy like Negan does. And for a moment it seems as if Negan agrees, that he thinks perhaps it could work. Then Rick cuts his throat and says that the Saviors can either accept Rick's terms, they'll let Negan live and can continue to exist in peace together, or they can continue this senseless war. 

Dwight takes up Lucille and asks the Saviors to follow him the same way that they followed Negan. While everyone's thinking this over, Negan, who isn't quite down for the count, tackles Rick. A fist fight ensues, Negan breaks Rick's leg but collapses soon after. Once Negan's down, it seems that the Saviors have decided not to fight. That they'll accept Rick's terms. 

Once he's all patched up, Rick talks his plan over with Andrea, Carl and Maggie. And though they're not all in agreement, they eventually come to terms with what Rick has in mind. When he goes to visit Negan's bedside, who's alive, he tells Negan that he's going to fix what Negan broke, that he's going to make this a better world and Negan will rot in jail for the rest of his life, forced to watch as Rick does what he couldn't. 

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