Name: Miles Behind Us
Rating: 4 (70 reviews)
ISBN: 9781582404134

Robert Kirkman

Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.

Miles Behind Us

Nicole Goldstein

Having watched the show before starting the comics, everything in the comic seems much funnier and faster paced. But I enjoy it. It feels different and yet the same. The characters feel new yet I recognize them. I have a long road ahead of me with them but I think it will be a good journey.

Nelson Zagalo

One of the best comic series, with such a terrific writing that all adaptations made — tv series and videogames — were able to benefit from it.

courtney garrison

This volume you really see everyone tested. They are not who they were before and you see if they can stay stable or if they completely lose it, which who could blame them if they did. This volume has some depressing scenes as you would expect in a zombie apocalypse, but you watch as they learn how to carry on and cope with what happens. Everything that is thrown at them they overcome and keep going, cause only the strong survive right? The Situation at the end really hits you and I think it played a really good part in the story. You see Hershel wants to hold onto his family so badly even though there's nothing he can do to help or heal them. He can't let go of them or the past. From a humanity side of this world, I thought it was well done.

Courtney ✿ @librarycutie

second read: April 23, 2020

new rating: 3 stars
kind of the same thoughts as before—fast paced and all that. i didn’t love this but it does get gritty and show that anyone can die in a *snap* and you can’t control it. also, the tyrese’s daughters bf is super sketchy.



  first read: March 8, 2015

old rating: 4 stars
Volume 2 contains Issues #7-12

I noticed that in the first two volumes of The Walking Dead, an entire season of the show has passed... It's really fast paced and i'm not even sure how much time has passed. It does give you everything that you need to know, and not any of the boring information. But for scenes like Glenn and Maggie exclaiming their love for one another, It seems like it happened so fast, like in a few days. More than likely they were at Hershel's for a few weeks, and their relationship expanded over that time. It just seems like it all happened so fast. That's the only problem that I could find in this Volume.

Let's talk about one of the new characters, Hershel. He seems like a respectable guy, instead of killing the already dead zombies, he has hope that these flesh eating things are just infected, and will heal soon, or the government and scientists and doctors will heal them all. He has so much good in him, and everything seems to fall apart so quickly that he snaps. He loses control of himself, and he hasn't really been exposed to the outside world. He let a group of strangers into his home while they fix Carl's wound and until he's healed. Everyone thought they were safe, that they found a new home. They had hopes, too!

Miles Behind Us sounds like a matching title, to me! This volume is basically where they leave camp, find somewhere to stay, having hopes to make the estates a new home for them, and then get mobbed by loads of zombies, and then find another place, Hershel's farm, and are kicked out, finally ending the volume with them overlooking a big prison. Also, Shit happens!


  I decided to take all the spoilers out, so I changed my review.

Wren Hardwick

So the art changed in this book, and I am pretty sure the rest of the series is drawn this way. It is really something. I wish I had enough talent in me to draw.

Welcome to a version of season 2 of The Walking Dead AMC. Where the barn is full of walkers, Maggie is annoying as ever (she gets better, don't worry), and Hershel believes that everything is just a phase and a cure will be drawn up soon.

Maggie has a lot more siblings, Otis isn't cutely over weight, Shane is already dead, Tyreese has a daughter and she has a boyfriend (that got awkward) and Carl was still shot.

Maggie is as forward and annoying as ever...



I liked this version more than the show. No. I liked it differently than the show. I liked Hershel in the comics more. He was a little more vocal about his opinions than passive. You know, the strong silent type. 

What I did miss about it though is the epic walker-take-over. The group splits at the end for reasons. But they find a type of salvation at the end which opens up the third volume for lots of activities -- and probably lots of deaths.

Sonia Flores

Robert Kirkman pretendía dejar ver la situación y la reacción de las personas ante estas circunstancias, pero me gusta mucho que a pesar de ello esto no parezca una novela con más drama del necesario (como si hiciera falta), porque es necesario avanzar y no estancarse en un mismo sitio (la granja), donde a su vez se estaría estancando la trama y la evolución de los personajes.
Me encanta cómo todo pasa de pronto, de forma inesperada, aunque este se me hizo un tanto más pasivo y lento que el volumen anterior.

Loved it anyway.

Jessica 

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There's something about The Walking Dead that feels like a classic horror film--it's easy to see why its following has stuck to it so long and why T.V. fans everywhere salivate for its phenomenal television adaptation. In Miles Behind Us, the second volume of the graphic novel series that started it all, we see a glimmer of life as the survivors struggle to--well--survive.

After the groundwork is set for the series as a whole, both in volumes one and two, we settle in with the loss of Shane (and the potential gravity of Carl having done the deed); the unexpected pregnancy of another character, the arrival of several new faces, the loss of others, a main character is nearly lost and more. In other words: plot twist after plot twist after plot twist.

Miles Behind Us feels like an expansion on what was already set up as an introduction to a brave (and horrible) new world. Now that we're familiar with the general story board, we're able to flesh out the characters and their connections to one another as well as, hopefully, dive into backstories and the like. What I liked most about Miles Behind Us is that it felt undeniably like it was more fleshed out than the first volume. This is a factor that comes into play in any story--the more development there is, the more compelling the stories become. And in a series like The Walking Dead, the story only grows from here on out.

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