Clementine Book One

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Schedeen, Jesse (November 1, 2021). "The Walking Dead: Clementine Book One - Exclusive Graphic Novel Preview". IGN . Retrieved November 1, 2021. For the next two weeks, the trio and the cat travel to Olivia's mother's homebase to retrieve supplies and a plane. After arriving, they sneak in, however the cat starts making noises, which alerts one of the residents who Clementine swiftly punches out. Olivia slides a letter under the door of her mother's room and they all go to the hangar to retrieve the plane. They fly out just as several residents attempt to catch them. Watching out the window is Olivia and Georgia's mother, who is revealed to have died and turned. Clementine looks over the land and asks Olivia to fly over Vermont to show Amos the plane one last time. Clementine eventually soon wake up and was greeted by Olivia, who told her that they had been saved by Emi. Olivia also reveals to Clementine that she has been unconscious for one month and her legs got infected as well. Olivia takes Clementine in a wheelchair and it was reveals that they are taken to Magdalen Islands, a remote island community led by Anne Morro, an enigmatic doctor. They soon reunited with Ricca where she attended a birthday party. There, Ricca introduces Clementine to the residents of the island, including Emi, John, Amir, Shu-Fen, Ginette, Giles, and Mercy.

Now for what I didn’t like. Tillie Walden is a fine enough illustrator, but I’ve never read much of her other work to judge her writing. It’s not appallingly bad here or anything, it just isn’t all that good either. It’s just serviceable. You can tell this is also a book geared at teenagers, which is usually fine, but a lot of the dialogue is just so whiny at points. I did like some of the more emotional moments, but it didn’t help the only person I care about in this whole book is Clementine. Amos and Ricca were cool I guess, but I just never got too attached to either, even if they are likable and written well. I’m also really confused on how all these teenagers are so effective at killing zombies. I get they grew up in the apocalypse, but these kids are killing walkers with next to no effort. The story falls flat as well, and every other review on here sums up why better than I could, but the summary should be a big hint. It just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and the ending felt surreal in the worst possible way.Clementine Book 1 is an Image Comics/Skybound Comet graphic novel written and drawn by Tillie Walden.

Things I mostly didn't like: I don't think we spent enough time with the other characters to know them properly.

Collected Editions

The story itself is fine, if not particularly original or strong enough to withstand more than passing scrutiny. Perhaps the gaps will be filled in better in Books Two and Three. It doesn't help that Tillie Walden's art is occasionally too murky to differentiate between characters or to fully illustrate what's happening to them. I really enjoyed Amos tho, who was a delight. I just... I don't think I'm this book's target demographic. I don't care about your standard zombies and I'd much rather read about teenage angst in real world situations (tho, perhaps hilariously, one of my favorite zombie books is Lia Habel's steampunk-zombie-teen romance mashup Dearly, Departed.) So I didn’t play the Walking Dead Telltale game and I have no idea who Clementine is or why anyone cares; I’m clearer now about who she is but remain baffled as to the caring part. In this book she’s a moody teen amputee who meets an Amish kid called Amos whose rumspringa involves travelling to a Vermont mountain and helping strangers build a house or something and getting a plane ride in return. Clem tags along because plot. TILLIE WALDEN is the future. Her boldly authentic voice brings new heights to the world of The Walking Dead." —ROBERT KIRKMAN Telltale's Walking Dead series spanned four main seasons and several spinoffs between 2012 and 2019, with Skybound stepping in to help finish the series after Telltale's unexpected closure in 2018. The games were also rereleased as The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series in 2019.