The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1: 01

Finally received my book after a long wait. The shipment was delayed unfortunately. Now, as far as the book is concerned, this is a must have for any TWD fan. The illustrations look beautiful in black and white. The book is really heavy covering more than 1000 pages. I would've preferred a hard cover for this price but its an excellent graphic novel. You dont have to think twice !

This rather thick, but still comfortable to read, tome includes issues 1 to 48 of the series. It is more economical to get this instead of buying the individual volumes. Even if you're not into the "zombie/horror" genre, you'll find this to be a real page turner. I frequently found myself staying up late at night just to read "one more spread". The art is entirely black-and-white, but well done. Being somewhat "untrained" in reading graphic novels/comics, I tend to mainly focus on the text. There is a fair amount of gore, as one may expect, and I couldn't bear to look at some of the frames. That said, the violence never seems out of line and the story holds nicely. Needless to say, I got compendiums 2 and 3 as well, in addition to the TV series on DVD, and am eagerly waiting for compendium 4 to be released!

The story and the book quality, both are top notch!

This is my first Compendium purchase. I usually go for hardcover absolute editions. I must say the books are huge!!! Heavy but robust and neatly binded. The pages are glossy and illustrations are clear, crisp and beautiful. This is the best Walking dead collection available. If you are a fan, there is no reason to not buy all the sets. I brought the three compendiums and left single volumes to complete the whole released volumes.

"So far hundreds have already reviewed this title so I'm not likely to say anything new or particularly interesting but I did want to put in my handful of bullet points. * The 12 and 14-year-olds in the house love the television show and enjoy graphic novels so when I got this I thought we could all read it. No way in hell. The show is violent and so is the compendium but the sex and language in the book is just too much. Today's teens may be desensitized to violent stuff going down but the amount of sex and innuendo is just too much. Plus the language is far too... realistic. Great for me, great for them when they're 20. * When I consider the amount of artwork that went into this thing I'm just flabbergasted. Sure some people like to draw but this is 1000+ pages. Wow. You have to respect that. * I'm a bit of an anal retentive book nerd so when I got this I was in mortal fear of the binding. It's huge. It's heavy. I expected a split spine within 200 pages. Not so. I've come to the end and the binding is as perfect as ever. Color me relieved. * I've seen the series. I've read the first compendium. On the series the characters do seem somewhat better developed; probably because it's been pretty hard for me to tell people apart. In the compendium the theme seems to be better preserved. We seem to see these people spiraling down into depravity with greater acuteness. Could be my imagination too but that's just my sense. * In general I don't do a lot of graphic novels and it took me a while to adjust to the reading order for the bubbles and I still don't pay nearly as much attention as I should to the illustrations. I'm just reading bubbles 90% of the time. It may be perhaps useful to the uninitiated to suggest slowing your reading pace to take in the whole thing rather than just racing through the words. * From a plot standpoint the story for the show seems to stick to the general outline of the original but only vaguely. It's recognizable as derived from the same source but that's about it. Don't expect to find all your favorite characters. In summary, I can see what all the fuss was about."