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The Governor was found severely crippled with several limbs missing and taken care of by his men who had him rescued from a vengeful Michonne in the nick of time who was about to painfully torture him to death. After they barely patched him up with help from a former army medic named Bob, The Governor eventually survives. He wakes up a week after in Woodbury hospital and then waits for his man Caesar Martinez to return.

Caesar was sent with Rick Grimes and his group to follow them back to their home as a double agent for him and to locate the prison facility where the survivors were currently residing. After some searching, his men found Caesar zombified in the field. Apparently, he was killed by Rick who ran over Dale's RV on Martinez and then strangled to death when he found that the latter was going back to Woodbury.

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The Governor then successfully convinces the townspeople of Woodbury to attack the prison by telling them a false story about the prison dwellers being a very aggressive and savage band of folks. He also showed Martinez's zombified decapitated head to them to prove his claims, which really shocks a lot of them. As his search parties kept looking for the prison, The Governor prepares himself by practicing shooting even though his right arm was off.

Meanwhile, he was spending time with his own zombified niece Penny and kisses her after pulling out her teeth only to throw up immediately. Then he learned that a group of soldiers from Woodbury was killed by the prison group at the National Guard Station during a confrontation of their supply run. This angers The Governor and his men to attack the prison but they wait for long. With heavy vehicles and armory they approached at the prison as one of Governor’s men was successful in locating it after weeks of searching and mapping the surrounding areas.

During the first attack, Andrea climbs on the guard tower and devastates the Woodbury forces by shooting at them. The remaining survivors debate as to run away or to fight back. Tyreese and Michonne are also captured by Governor's men while trying to turn the tides of the battle and their fate seems to be quite unsure at this point. What happens next between the two group is a savage contest of massacring each other till no one is left.

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The Walking Dead – Made To Suffer

Following the events of “The Calm Before”, there comes “Made To Suffer” storyline that collects issue #43-48 of The Walking Dead monthly ongoing comic-book series from Image Comics in 2008. It also is the one volume that features the highest amount of deaths in the panels which is later surpassed by the “All Out War” story arc. Series creator and writer Robert Kirkman (Outcast, The Astounding Wolf-Man) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) created this six part plot that is succeeded by "Here We Remain" storyline which is next to this one.

Almost Dead Already

The eighth episode from Season 3 of AMC's The Walking Dead TV Series also shares the same name of the storyline. However, that episode did not feature the attack of Woodbury people led by The Governor on Rick's prison. Since AMC's TV adaptation is solely based on the source material of Robert Kirkman's work on the comics series, the third season seemed like a stretch as it concluded to Season 4 for viewers to find out what threat The Governor will pose on Rick's group. The key-elements of the violent nature of the conflict that took place on the arc was toned down for television audience when it was aired.
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Lori was silently thinking about the time which was initially after the worldwide outbreak when she had sex with Shane at the side of a road while Carl was sleeping inside the back of the car. As she was worrying about Rick's situation, Shane comforts her by saying that everything will be alright in the end. However, she was still unsure on how to approach Rick about it when they finally reunites. Rick talks with her about the present but Lori still seems to have been indulged into her own thoughts for a while.

Glenn and Maggie finally ties the knot of holy matrimony in the prison cafeteria with Hershel’s blessings and approval for them. Everything in the prison compound seemingly starts running back to normal again. Even though she was uncertain about how to confront Rick about this, that night, Lori finally confesses the truth she’s been hiding from Rick all along about her and Shane, noting the possibility of her unborn child could be of Shane’s and Rick confirms that he already knows this but chose not to talk about it.

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Next day, Rick, Tyreese and Dale decide after a quick inventory check that they need more weaponry to defend themselves from The Governer and the Woodbury group if they are truly planning to attack on them. The group of Andrea, Axel, Glenn, Maggie, Michonne and Tyreese goes for a supply run and found the National Guard Station which the Woodbury forces were using till then and collects whatever they can along with a large army truck.

After gathering necessary supplies from there, the group blew up the station to make sure that the Woodbury men will not be able to collect anything from there. On their way back from the run, they met a few of Governor's men when they stopped at an abandoned Wal-Mart and engage in gun fight after one of them recognizes Glenn and shot at him. Back at the prison, Lori goes into labor and gives birth to a baby girl child who is named Judith.

In the middle of all that Dale got bit in the leg when he and Billy Greene went to siphon gas from the cars outside to run the generator they discovered earlier. To save him from infection and turning into a Walker, Rick quickly amputates his leg. Carol goes nuts as she loses grip over the reality of the world and there's enemy at the gates to lay waste of their new found home and take it away.

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The Walking Dead – The Calm Before

“The Calm Before” is the seventh storyline of The Walking Dead monthly ongoing comic-book series, which collects issue #37-42 from the title and is published from Image Comics in 2007. Series creator and regular writer Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) continues to chronicle the events of undead apocalypse just like the previous issues. “The Calm Before” perhaps is one of the slowest running arc of the entire series.

Welcome to The Tombs

Elements shown in the book like Carol becoming suicidal was never really adapted into the live-action adaptation of The Walking Dead TV Show on AMC. Instead, Carol's character lived and became one of the long-lived characters from the show till date. The story was preceded by “This Sorrowful Life” before and is followed by the epic “Made To Suffer” storyline which also belongs to the same series and marks a great reckoning for the characters of the series.
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Michonne is offered by the maniacal Governor to battle on Woodbury’s local gladiator arena in exchange for her daily torture routine as he needs fighters for entertainment and she fights against combatant Eugene Cooney as a replacement for arena fighter Harold Abernathy who was previously killed by Eugene in a fit of rage after Harold accidentally knocked off Eugene's tooth. She also killed off some Walkers following the fight that sparked protests against her violent manner and she is knocked out once again.

Meanwhile, Rick and Glenn managed to make an escape from their captivity with help from one of Governor's men, Caesar Martinez. He was shocked to see Rick's amputated arm and decides to join them along with Doctor Stevens and Nurse Alice to get out of this hellhole. Michonne however, stays back after being rescued to take care of some unfinished business with The Governor. Unfortunately, Doctor Stevens were bitten by a Walker on the neck during their escape and chooses to stay behind while telling the others to go.

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Upon learning the location of Governor's house from Alice, Michonne goes to pay him a visit saying she will catch up with them later.. As The Governor was busy feeding his zombified niece Penny, she breaks into his apartment and knocks him over. After tying him up real good, she tortures him with many objects like drill, hammer and her own katana to cripple the maniac in every possible way she could to a severity where he keeps blacking out. When his men finally arrived, she quickly escapes from there before getting caught.

After merely being able to escape from Governor's men, Michonne walks for an entire night to catch up with Rick and his gang to the helicopter crash site. In response to Rick's question of whether she killed Governor or not, she acts oddly ad continues walking. When they all are back in prison, Rick and his friends finds a reanimated Otis wandering around and entire prison yard is completely overrunned by hordes of Walkers pouring in from outside. Inside the seemingly abandoned Dale's RV, they found Dale and Andrea hiding from the zombies lurking around.

As they clear off all the undeads, Rick's group all finally reunites together in C-Block and Glenn proposes to Maggie Greene for marrying him after collecting a ring from a female Walker. Tyreese substitutes for Rick on their routine Zombie watch as the former has been gravely wounded and been through a lot recently. Rick assembles everyone from the prison and after telling them about all the horrors that have happened to them back at Woodbury, prepares themselves for a battle against the tyrant Governor.

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The Walking Dead – This Sorrowful Life

The sixth storyline of The Walking Dead comic series is titled "This Sorrowful Life" and it ran from issue #31-36 of monthly ongoing series, followed by the events of "The Best Defense" and this story arc takes its turn to next storyline called "The Calm Before". Series creator and writer Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files) were the ones responsible for this arc published from Image Comics in 2007 and it was ranked in one of the top 10 best graphic novels around that time.

Revenge of Michonne

Key elements from this storyline were adapted to Season 3 of AMC's live-action The Walking Dead TV adaptation.Since the level of brutality and gore on this book was too violent to adapt for cable TV audience, many of the source materials were changed or completely written off. One such incident is the brutal tortures and repeated rape of Michonne's character at the hands of The Governor. Also, Governor's reanimated niece from comics is adapted as his own daughter in the series to give their relationship more depth.
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While clearing up the prison yard of A-block, a secret armory is discovered by Glenn and Maggie where they found shotguns and police riot gears that they can use for protection against the Walkers during the regular clean-up. They decide to use those gears to siphon fuels of the remaining cars of the yards to run Dale's RV and the in-house power generator. After her recent suicidal activity, Carol and Lori talks and she is worried for her daughter Sophia.

Wearing the newfound riot suit, Rick and Glenn goes to siphon gas from the parked cars near the prison and then they notice a helicopter that flies by. Then it suddenly crashes nearby and along with Michonne, they rush to the spot on a car that Glenn managed to run somehow. Afer the car stuck in the mud, they continued on foot but except for the wrecking copter, they found no one on the crash site but only a few tracks of footprint there.

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In prison, Carol asks Lori if she and Rick would consider polygamous marriage with her as she thinks can work out well. Lori is stunned at her proposal and denies her, which slightly offends her. Axel and Tyreese guards outside the prison compound while waiting for Rick and gang to return anytime. Carl is excited to have a cell of his own when his father returns and asks his mother why she is always upset when Rick leaves.

In hopes to find survivors of the chopper out there, Rick, Glenn and Michonne starts following the tracks and reaches to a mile marker for a community town called Woodbury. When they reaches there, their weapons are taken by the guards and a guy named Caesar Martinez welcomes them to the place. The town is completely free of Walkers and Rick's gang soon met the man who leads the town, only goes by the name of The Governor.

The man enjoys survivors fighting each other in an arena surrounded by Walkers just for fun yet; everyone in the town of Woodbury seems to be unknown of the true nature of their lunatic leader. The Governor welcomed them in peace at first but later he starts violently interrogating them about their location, which results in chopping off Rick's right arm for his unwillingness to cooperate. He also admits that he fed the helicopter survivors to the zombies when they came here.

Michonne is brutally raped and tortured for days by the madman continuously, while a locked up Glenn is forced to hear it. A wounded Rick is sent to the care of Dr. Stevens who enlighten Rick of Governor’s past, about how he rose to the power and what he may come up with next. The Governor wants to know of the location of Rick’s prison camp as he wants all the resources they have right now for the town of Woodbury, even if it means to invade and slaughter every last one of them.

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The Walking Dead – The Best Defense

Collecting issue #25-30 from the monthly ongoing comic-book series The Walking Dead, "The Best Defense" is fifth storyline run of the title. Published by Image Comics in 2006, the storyline is developed by writer Robert Kirkman (Outcast, The Astounding Wolf-Man) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). The story starts from the ending point of the previous arc "The Heart's Desire" and is later continued in "This Sorrowful Life" story arc. This is the first ever storyline of this post-apocalyptic Zombie saga where any death of the living or undead is not shown.

Gears of Retaliation

Though many elements from this story is adapted into the Season 3 of The Walking Dead TV Show on AMC, many other aspects of the original content had to left out because of the level of extremely graphic moments that has taken place. For instance, Rick's hand getting chopped off is completely avoided showing and then the part where Michonne gets raped is also omitted from the show just because it would be too much to digest for cable TV audience. The live-action portrayal and appearance of the character The Governor by actor David Morrissey was also way different than it is in the book.
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While Rick and his group was facing a new threat by Dexter and his other fellow inmates at the prison, a Walker horde starts entering the prison yards for Andrew forgetting to lock the door. This forced all of the survivors to take a stand against the army of the undead corpses. To move an absolute obstacle from the way of a possible future dispute, Rick intentionally shoots Dexter in the middle of the ensuing chaos, which Tyreese saw but remained silent about it. In the aftermath of the fight, Axel made up with the team and Andrew ran off towards the massive horde outside.

Meanwhile, Otis is attacked by a group of Walkers outside the prison while approaching to the compound but a mysterious woman helps Otis fight the Zombies back with her katana. Introducing Michonne, a katana wielding lone femme fatale survivor of this dead world with two chained up crippled zombies tagged along with her. Otis and Michonne reach the prison gates but she is only allowed inside after she surrendered her weapon to Rick and beheads her pet walkers.

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Glenn and Maggie were working on slowly taking out roaming Walkers around the fences to clear out the area. During the cleanup of the prison blocks, Allen got bitten in his leg and Rick immediately amputates the limb to stop spreading the infection but he dies anyway after some time. Otis chastises Patricia for her siding with the homicidal inmate earlier, which was responsible for the death of two of Harshel's children.

As Carol and Tyreese were in the gym, Michonne enters there to lift weights and even recognizes him from his NFL days. This made Carol slightly upset and she leaves. Later, Michonne seduces Tyreese and gave him oral sex, which caused a break-up between Carol Peletier and him, followed by a mental breakdown that led her to suicidal attempt. Rick entirely blames Tyreese for this mess and they got into a heated argument.

This argument quickly turned into a fight and Tyreese got the upper hand in the brawl. He questions Rick's sanity, causing him to step back as the leader of the survivors' group. Still, considering his contribution to the group's survival, they chose to make him one of the "co-leaders" of the group alongside Dale and Hershel. Andrea finds Michonne talking to an imaginary person which made no sense to her.

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The Walking Dead – The Heart's Desire

"The Heart's Desire" is a storyline from The Walking Dead monthly ongoing comic-book series and consists of issue #19-24 by writer Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). The storyline is published by Image Comics in 2005 and is the continuation of "Safety Behind Bars". This volume has introduced Michonne, a character who will play important role in the upcoming surviving chronicles. Also this is the final volume of The Walking Dead series that features the covers illustrated by artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, Punisher).

Introducing Michonne

Though, Michonne's character has made her debut on issue #19, which is the first chapter of this entire plot, the character was introduced on the first episode of Season 3 from AMC's The Walking Dead TV show. Compared to comic-book storyline chronology to the show's timeline, she appeared almost half the season later. Michonne's character was portrayed by actor Danai Gurira for the series. Later, the story continued in "The Best Defense" arc, exploring the saga in depth from here.
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With nowhere else to go, Rick Grimes and his band of survivors found home in an abandoned prison complex.

Following an incident that caused death to many children of Harshel Greene, he forced Rick Grimes and his group to leave his farm. However, Glenn left behind from their group to his farm to pursue his newly formed relationship with Maggie. Once again, Rick and his fellow survivors came out on open road-trip they started from Atlanta.

After few days of scavenging, Dale and Andrea finally came across a completely abandoned prison facility over the hills and showed it to Rick. Though it is now infested with walkers, they all decide to reside there permanently if possible. Not willing to spend any more nights in RV, Rick, Andrea and Tyreese starts cleaning up its outer yard.

Using only their regular melee weapons, they pick up some roaming zombies until more of them pour in from inside and they start shooting. Rest of the group members was none too excited to stay put inside RV to look after the children. Allen was outside of fence keeping a watch and saw Andrea coming back to fetch more bullets.

Soon, those three cleaned up most of the Walkers and then used firepower when more of them start pouring in. Doing their assigned clean-up jobs next day inside the prison compound and hoping to get to a possible stockpile of canned food, they found four remaining inmates; Dexter, Andrew, Axel and Thomas sitting in cafeteria.

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After introducing themselves to surviving prison inmates, Rick and his group are welcomed to dinner table and allowed to co-exist with them. Dale and Rick then decides to invite Harshel Greene in prison to learn growing food and farming inside these fences, to which he agrees as there are frequent Walkers attacks on his farm these days.

Harshel expresses his gratitude to Rick for an opportunity to start a new life here by welcoming his family to prison and apologizes for angrily kicking him out of his farm earlier. Later that night, they all learn that people can still get turned after death even if they are not bitten by zombies from a failed suicidal attempt by Chris and Julie.

This incident reminds Rick of taking care of an unfinished business and he heads to their former campsite location. Wandering around inside, Glenn and Maggie finds barber shop and gets naughty before giving each other a haircut. Seeing them, both Susie and Rachel insisted for a haircut as well so, Maggie took them to barber shop.

Tyreese decided to clean up gym are with Andrea, Billy Greene and Glenn with a plan to stick together as a group but he soon gets swarmed by a herd of Walkers, which have his friends assume his demise and leave quickly. Harshel came looking for the twins only to open up door of barber shop to see their decapitated heads in horror.

Shortly afterwards, Maggie came to check in on her father and discovers him around a bloody mess of her twin sisters. Glen shoots their reanimated heads and Lori angrily accuses Dexter of this heinous deed before putting him behind bars. Rick came back to prison a day after the incident and Dale updates him on all recent events.

Glenn then informs him about how Tryeese went into a suicide run in gym and they had to leave him behind as he got swarmed. He goes to talk to Dexter about whether or not he killed the girls but he claims to be innocent in this case. He suggests that Rick might as well look within his group for a murderer instead of them.

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The Walking Dead Vol 03 – Safety Behind Bars

"Safety Behind Bars" is third storyline from monthly ongoing comic-book series The Walking Dead from Image Comics, narrated by series creator/writer Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). Cover arts featuring single issues were all done by artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, Punisher).

Finding a new life inside prison grounds, Rick and his gang attempts to settle in after a long time on road. He even invites Harshel and his family to stay with them but then a gruesome murderous event took place inside those cell blocks that completely shatters everyone and surviving inmates are the only ones to suspect.

When Dead Comes Knocking

Collecting issues #13-18 from titular series, entirety of the story has served as primary inspiration for early episodes of Season 03 of The Walking Dead live-action TV series aired on AMC. Even though source material from comics has inspired TWD in beginning, it starts to differentiate too much from roots as they keep progressing.

In a six-issue tale, survivors have faced deaths of some beloved and started to realize larger threats other than ravenous zombies lurking among them. Driving all characters towards another major arc, "Safety Behind Bars" is following tragic events of "Miles Behind Us" from earlier and continues in "The Heart's Desire" up next.
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