Walking Dead: Fear the Hunters (Vol. 11)

Walking Dead: Fear the Hunters (Vol. 11) written by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard consists of issues 61 through 66 of Walking Dead.

Walking Dead is a really good ongoing series about the consequences of a zombie outbreak. Instead of focusing on a zombie outbreak and seeing how the protagonists survive, in this comic we get to see what happens over a long period of time. The greatest aspect of Walking Dead is that anything can happen to the characters, the status quo changes all the time.

This collection of issues introduces a group of people that eat others to survive. While what they do is horrible and it threatens the protagonists, what the protagonists do is horrific. This comic really explores how survivors of a zombie outbreak would lose their humanity little by little. The greatest enemy stops being the zombie, but becomes the lack of trust between different people and the search for survival at any cost.

I think this series is great and I should also point out that the art is fantastic. Charlie Adlard does a great job of giving each character life and of making the world feel real.

My one complaint on this collection is in the final chapter (issue 66). I find the resolution a little over the top and I also have some issues with too many splash pages (including two double splashes). I think splashes and double splashes are great and that one strength of the series is the ease of reading, using the art to tell a big part of the story, but this issue went a little too far with that, without the story demanding it.

I recommend this series, a good place to start is the big Compendium which has the first 48 issues.