{"id":4386,"date":"2014-03-22T23:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T05:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:10:48","slug":"the-walking-dead-all-out-war-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead: All Out War Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wd-cover-Vol20-dressedsm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Wd-cover-Vol20-dressedsm-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wd-cover-Vol20-dressedsm\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The problem with reviewing <a title=\"The Walking Dead Volume 20: All Out War Part 1 by Robert Kirkman, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Walking-Dead-Volume-20\/dp\/1607068826\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Out War<\/a> isn&#8217;t the usual one where, oh no, the series has gone on for twenty volumes, how am I supposed to talk about what&#8217;s going on now without massive spoilers? Either I care less about spoilers than I should, or else something about these books doesn&#8217;t cause the typical problem. No, the problem with the review is the same thing that&#8217;s a strength of the book. It doesn&#8217;t really feel like a new book at all, more like just a new comic. That makes it sound like the storyline hasn&#8217;t progressed, and it definitely has. It&#8217;s just that the last few books, pretty much ever since Rick was asked to remove protectionist warlord Negan from the world, have felt a lot more like a single coherent storyline than the Walking Dead used to.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon that the title reveals both a) that the plot is going as I&#8217;d anticipated and b) that they&#8217;re taking a little longer to get there than they could have. Which is fine. In a case of becoming more wishy-washy than ever, the strength of Negan&#8217;s character (which, yes, continues to compel) and the strength of the current plot are buying me enough goodwill to no longer hope it wraps up soon. Intellectually, I know that&#8217;s <em>why<\/em> Kirkman needs to wrap things up on this high note more than ever, but, screw it. If he doesn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll cave and stick around for a while until the high points come back yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with reviewing All Out War isn&#8217;t the usual one where, oh no, the series has gone on for twenty volumes, how am I supposed to talk about what&#8217;s going on now without massive spoilers? Either I care less about spoilers than I should, or else something about these books doesn&#8217;t cause the typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,30],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}