The Walking Dead (Volume 22) A New Beginning by Robert Kirkman.

"Rick has more or less made a new world, just as he promised. But as always, there are bad guys out there."

4 Stars.

Pros: It's interesting to see Negan acting the way he is and if he's actually "changed" as a person or if he's just putting on act. Rick is convinced that he's "neutered" Negan but I'm not so sure.

Cons: You can only go so far with a series like this until it starts to become repetitive. Good group has good thing going, bad group wants what good group has. Fights ensue. People die. Zombies.

Full Review:

Rick has managed to do as he said and make a new world. With the cooperation of the Hilltop, the Kingdom, the Sanctuary and Alexandria, they have a mill, a blacksmith, ammunitions, patrols. He's created the world he said he would. And he also kept his promise to Negan, who's being kept in a cell in a house, on his own.

While steering a herd of zombies away from the borders, Jesus and others come upon a new group. Their leader is Magna and they bring her group into the fray. She has a feeling Rick is hiding something and when she and her friends go in search of answers, they find Negan. He tries to convince them that Rick is a madman but they don't buy it and they leave him.

Having agreed to let Carl move to the Hilltop so he can apprentice under the Blacksmith, Earl, Carl and Rick head there and visit with Maggie. She's had her baby and named him Hershel. Sophia is now a teenager and they all share a moment together to watch the sunset. It's a good feeling, realizing that they're happy and relatively safe.

While working on charting out more territory, two men from the Hilltop lose their horses and have to try and make their way back on foot. While hiding from the dead, they hear them whispering. Days later, one of the men makes it back to the Hilltop and is rambling about the dead talking. No one believes him and they leave him in the infirmary to rest up.

Maggie sends men to go out and search for Ken, the man that was left behind. They're overrun by zombies but this group is different. Some of the zombies are holding knives and actually attack the Hilltoppers. After defeating them, the last remaining man realizes that the zombie he just killed isn't a zombie at all. It's a person wearing the skin of a zombie over his face.

He's then held at gunpoint by another person wearing zombie skin. Enter the Whisperers.

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