As always with Kirkman you can never be sure if he’s about to pull the wool over your eyes, but the odds are he has something planned with the introduction of three new characters that threaten to shake up the group and probably for the better. Enjoying this issue a lot more than the last one where we finally get to see who survived the RV raid in the prison and who didn’t and Kirkman works at tugging at our heartstrings by bringing us our favorite characters again, but with considerable distances.

I'm still hurting from Tyreese's death. Herschel is gone; a religious fanatic with good intentions. And Sophia is two strings short of a full rope, and even Rick is at a point in his sanity where he’s clearly not fit to lead anymore. What we get here is another arc; the start or a new arc that focuses on the claiming of Herschel’s farm that can now become another sanctuary for the few remaining survivors of the core cast of “The Walking Dead” and this gives us a chance for Rick to think back to his regrets, exchange some apologies and sulk on what could have been.