We’ve seen his radio contact with someone from another community, and a decision is made to reach out and make personal contact. The reason for the road trip is down to Eugene. As always, Adlard is solid, and possibly undervalued. There are also new characters to be designed, and kept distinct from the existing cast, and the return of a couple of old favourites. Much of Lines We Cross is a road trip, and he’s afforded a chance to draw some great scenery and some stunning urban decay. Unusually, artist Charlie Adlard gets to strut his stuff long before the usual end of the volume battle. One thing’s for certain, despite the tragedy seen in the previous volume, there’s a growing number of people unhappy at Rick’s decisions. That, though, is just the prelude to Robert Kirkman’s emotionally drenched opening chapter where a lot of resentments and secrets are aired, and that’s before he begins to address the main story. Is he right in believing Negan has changed? His father Rick has raised concerns about a more recent line crossed in A Certain Doom. Carl, then still a child, solved the problem by killing him. Carl Grimes recalls the community’s discussions about what to do with a child who’d killed his brother, yet without fully understanding the consequences. Lines We Cross opens with two lines crossed in the past.
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