The Walking Dead (Volume 32) Rest In Peace by Robert Kirkman

"A fitting end to the series. "

5 Stars.

Pros: With a surprising but understandable twist, the series is wrapped up. We learn of some characters fates while others are a mystery but Kirkman respects the reader enough to let them decide and not continue to write a story long after a good ending point has been reached.

Cons: There are or course questions that want answering but nothing so vital that you can't make your own guesses. Aside from the choice of President in the end (seemed kind of convenient), this was a good ending to a good series.

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Of course the people of the Commonwealth rebel and tensions erupt. Rick tries to keep the peace, Pamela Milton is at first suspicious but then she decides to surrender. And it seems that thing will end peacefully. There's talk of an election and Rick, is of course, an obvious candidate for leader. But he's decided that his place is in Alexandria, that he doesn't want to stay in the Commonwealth, that he wants to go back home.

He's not given the option though, when Sebastian, Pamela's entitled brat of a son, sneaks into Rick's bedroom with a gun. He says Rick has ruined everything, that his mother built the Commonwealth, that everything was perfect until Rick came around. Rick is calm, collected and simply tells him to not do what he's thinking of doing. But he does it anyway. That was both surprising and not surprising at all. It was necessary.

Carl decides to bring his Father back to Alexandria, to lay him to rest beside Andrea. And all the people of the Hilltop, Alexandria, the Kingdom etc, join him in a funeral procession from the Commonwealth. It's a heart wrenching scene and when Carl collapses in tears, saying that Rick had fought so hard for so long and the world is finally what he wanted it to be and he doesn't get to see it, the reader is in complete agreement that it really isn't fair.

There's a time jump where the world really has continued. There's government, industry, the world is expanding and improving and zombies are now few and far between. It's a good, better world where people work hard and enjoy their lives, where they truly live. And as Carl reads his daughter a bed time story, all about her Grandfather, the great Rick Grimes, the reader knows that it is because of Rick Grimes that this world was possible. It's rote but fitting.

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