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The Walking Dead: Compendium Two Paperback – October 16, 2012

by Robert Kirkman (Author), Sina Grace (Editor), Charlie Adlard (Artist),
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  • Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The Walking Dead, collected into one massive paperback collection!
  • This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC: over one-thousand pages chronicling the next chapter of Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror — beginning with Rick Grimes’ struggle to survive after the prison raid, to the group’s finding short solace in The Community, and the devastation that follows. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living.
  • Collects The Walking Dead #49-96.
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    The Walking Dead
  2. Print length
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  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Image Comics
  5. Publication date
    October 16, 2012
  6. Reading age
    16 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 2.3 x 10 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    9781607065968
  9. ISBN-13
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About the Author

First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success.

Additional Kirkman comics include Oblivion Song, Die!Die!Die!, Invincible, Outcast, Super Dinosaur, Battle Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves.

Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week’s episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.

He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Kirkman’s popular demonic-exorcism comic, Outcast, was adapted and produced for Cinemax. His second longest running coming book series Invincible is currently being adapted for a live action movie for Universal and an animated series for Amazon. Kirkman will serve as Executive Producer on both adaptations.

Robert is also the Chairman of Skybound Entertainment. Robert, an advocate for creator rights, co-founded Skybound alongside his longtime business and producing partner David Alpert in an effort to ensure creators are able to maintain their intellectual property rights and creative control.

Charlie Adlard is the Eisner award nominated artist and co-conspirator on The Walking Dead. In his spare time he’s co-created books such as Rock Bottom, Codeflesh, White Death, and many more in his twenty plus year career to date. He’s drawn the French album Breath Of The Wendigo and plans to continue working for that market with more bande dessineés planned. He also plays the drums in his band Cosmic Rays…

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1607065967
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image Comics; 42972nd edition (October 16, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1068 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781607065968
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607065968
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.6 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 2.3 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time and is the #1 show on television among the coveted 18-49 demo. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success.

Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week’s episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.

He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, and the Korean pre-apocalyptic drama, Five Year. Kirkman’s popular demonic-exorcism comic, Outcast, was adapted, produced and airs on Cinemax.

For the big screen, Kirkman will produce Invincible based on his long-running popular comic book. The project will be written, directed and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Universal Pictures. Other credits include AIR featuring Norman Reedus and Academy Award nominee, Djimon Hounsou.

Additional Kirkman comics include Super Dinosaur, Battle Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves.

Robert is also the Chairman of Skybound Entertainment. Robert, an advocate for creator rights, co-founded Skybound alongside his longtime business and producing partner David Alpert in an effort to ensure creators are able to maintain their intellectual property rights and creative control.

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The Unremitting Cycle of Death Continues...
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The Unremitting Cycle of Death Continues...
By the time readers get around to wading through the one-thousand-plus pages of The Walking Dead: Compendium Two, they’ll see that Robert Kirkman's hard-hitting world of the zombie post-apocalypse has hit its stride, and the ground rules firmly established. The vast majority of mankind has long since been wiped out by an inexplicable pandemic, one that has left hordes of shambling corpses in its wake. Society has crumbled. Supplies are scarce. No one is truly safe—anywhere. Characters die with heart-breaking frequency…and once decent, law-abiding individuals must now commit heinous acts just to keep breathing.The Walking Dead: Compendium Two, which collects Issues #49-96, is an excellent companion piece for fans of the monumental TV adaptation, though these collected comics make the show look lightweight in terms of sheer brutality. Here, we see how Kirkman has driven Rick Grimes and his ragtag group further into the darkest recesses of humanity. Rick’s tortured son Carl struggles to mature in an unforgiving world wherein innocence is stolen and daily survival remains the unwritten code. In the wake of the deadly prison onslaught, new allies are gained in the form of ex-military type Abraham Ford, Rosita Espinosa, and Eugene Porter (who claims to hold the key to curing the infection and thus restoring order to this bygone world). Survival is paramount as Rick and Co. face new threats, amongst which a small band of desperate humans who’ve decided to forego whatever canned goods still remain and hunt bigger, more convenient game: other humans. Even as the survivors find sanctuary in a lively oasis called the Alexandria Safe-Zone, the unremitting cycle of death continues.While the artwork remains consistently impressive—though it’s still occasionally difficult to distinguish some of the characters at times—the tone dark and gritty, but the awful dialogue and paper-thin characterizations are even worse than that of the previous compendium. Kirkman uses the word “just” a lot—and I mean A LOT! The narrative takes some familiar turns though not without throwing an occasional fork in the road. Still, this compendium is not without its share of tedious plot rehashing. For instance, on two distinct occasions, the group encounters a new character with a proposition that seems too good to be true, and Rick’s response is to sucker-punch the character, subdue them, and squabble for numerous panels before eventually accepting the newcomer’s offer. There’s also a weak amnesia storyline that only serves to compel Rick and Carl to retread familiar introspective territory. Despite being a good, sprawling adventure, these abovementioned flaws prevent this hefty tome from being a mammoth achievement.
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Cpark
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome read
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I love Walkimg Dead and getting the compendium makes it a breeze to read.
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Paladin75
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm not a Zombie-phile
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013
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Despite my being prepared for the eventual Zombie Apocalypse, I'm not really into all things zombie. Sure, I like Resident Evil video games (not the movies so much, they go off on a tangent somewhat) and I've seen most of the major zombie movies but they all share one thing in common- the people are so much fodder for the zombies and the zombies themselves are all of the same ilk.

Leave it to a comic book to get such a story right. I say that because of all the movies I've seen, and the few stories I may have read, not a single one of them dealt with the complexities that have to arise when the world as we know it changes unalterably like it does in these comics.

This compendium deals with issues 49-96 (I got Compendium one as part of a package for the game The Walking Dead, which was a surprisingly awesome and engaging game, despite not being a FPS with slick visuals and tight controls, but I digress) which tells the story of the group after they've been ousted from the prison. If you haven't read the first one, stop right now and go read it. All of what comes next will make more sense.

As I was saying, unlike most zombie stories or scripts, the most attention is paid to the people who have to live through this horror; their separate motivations and needs, their struggle not only to survive, but to hang onto whatever remnants of civilization they can w/out regressing into feral savagery. You'll find yourself rooting for them - if only because in the same situation, you could only hope to have a similar group of individuals of differing skillsets that could afford you the chance to survive such an epidemic.

The show, while it does depart from some of the mythology of the comics, does stay true to the tone of the books- for me, it is one of the reasons why I continue to watch it. Truth be told, they didn't need to change a thing- I know Hollywood has a tendency to do this because they think it'll make this or that movie or show better, more watchable, more dramatic- but the comic books were frightening, original and imaginative enough w/out further alteration. These people were very realistic- not a single one struck me as extraneous or BS; I could see people having to make these sorts of decisions with the same kind of soul-searching, gut-wrenching that I would if I were forced to do so. It is hard not to empathize, even if that isn't in your nature. Having read the books and seen the show, I honestly can't see why they changed or altered characters, but done is done.

If you're into zombies and love a good story, get this book- but get the first one first and read it through. I found that it didn't take long at all...I waited longer for this to arrive than it took me to read it- its that good.
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Reggie H
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a sucker for The Walking Dead
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
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My wife and I bought the 1st compendium by complete happenstance. We were at Wal-Mart one night, bored, looking through the books section and saw it. We had already become fans of the show thanks to Netflix and a co-worker who told me about it. Neither of us are comics fans; we didn't read them as kids and didn't plan to as adults with adult children, but we both absolutely loved the 1st compendium, so of course we had to order the second one as soon as we finished the 1st. My wife has finished the 2nd compendium, and I'm about 10% through, but I already love it. I think these books are far better than the TV show, and I love that the characters are given more opportunity for development in the book. The one thing that complicates matters is that you never know if what you're reading is going to be a spoiler for the tv series. I am just now reading about Abraham, and I saw the episode where he was introduced a couple weeks ago, I believe. Even though the show doesn't follow the book verbatim, there are lots of parallels in the storyline, and with the characters. My only gripe about these compendiums is that they are so heavy to the point that they're not comfortable to read while lying in bed, or on the couch. You pretty much need to be at a desk b/c the books are unwieldy enough b/c they're paperbacks, on top of the fact that they must weigh about 5 pounds each. I do love the feel of an actual book in my hands (I love hardcovers) but I would be fine with these in eBook form just because they're so weighty. I read Stephen King's "The Stand" unabridged edition which was around 1200 pages, and it wasn't nearly as heavy as this thing. I'm a big guy, and I have no issues carrying my sleeping wife up a flight of stairs, but to hold this big book for an extended period of time sort of pulls you out of the story b/c you'll be reminded of the spine of the book digging into your lap or belly. Aside from that, it still deserves 5 stars b/c Robert Kirkman is an excellent story teller with a great talent for creating believable characters that you can't help but care about.
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Fran Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars Not TWD I expected...
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023
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Usually the book is better. In this case it is in many, many ways, better than the show. However, there are many characters that don't exist in the story that are in the show and those characters are AWESOME... Darryl for example, gotta have my Darryl! With that being said, Compendiums 1 & 2 have been awesome. Very graphic, very detailed and very unexpected. Loving the art and the story. I've been enlightened!
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Deborah J Havrilchak
5.0 out of 5 stars Dead Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
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My Grandson loves it
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vale la pena conseguir los 4 tomos
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Reviewed in Italy on September 29, 2018
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Ottimo prodotto acquistato per un regalo, ed è piaciuto tantissimo!! Per un appassionato come raccolta è ben rilegata... ovviamente è un bel mattone essendo tantissimi albi riuniti, ma secondo me è un ottimo prodotto. lo consiglio.
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Pallavi Banerjee
5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy
Reviewed in India on October 17, 2017
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Compendium are cheap and robust. Their binding is strong and the art is nice. If you are planning to collect the books... better to go for the compendium than the individual ones.
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Marta Escriu de Gracia
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Spain on February 13, 2018
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El cómic es perfecto igual que su predecesor, ilustraciones muy buenas y de calidad inmejorable y en ingles como yo lo quería.
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