By my money, I consider James Ellroy’s “LA Confidential” to be one of the greatest crime dramas ever made. It’s an elaborate, morose, and brutally intelligent display of respective talents and truly keen storytelling that gets better with every single viewing. “LA Confidential” was not a real hit with me upon the first viewing; in fact I found it painfully mediocre once the credits began to roll. Suddenly, I found myself watching it repeatedly and soon discovered that it was a stellar piece of filmmaking that grew on me once I opened my mind a bit.
This is one of the first issues–in fact it’s the only issue–that has kind of disappointed me since I started reading. I mean I wasn’t too crazy on the issue telling the story of the Governor, but I learned to enjoy it. With issue 52 of “The Walking Dead” I was kind of disappointed. With Rick now hopefully on the way to recovery from his stomach wound, he and Carl are now alone and he’s teaching the lad how to drive. We open the issue with a humorous, terrifying, and touching moment between the two where Carl learns how to drive crashing in to three of the walking dead and in comes Michonne to the rescue.
