{"id":5471,"date":"2016-04-18T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T23:35:21","slug":"the-walking-dead-no-turning-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5471","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead: No Turning Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/517KPsoOcxL-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"517KPsoOcxL\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/517KPsoOcxL-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/517KPsoOcxL.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>For a wonder, the latest Walking Dead has a title that isn&#8217;t trite and a storyline to match. <a title=\"The Walking Dead Volume 25: No Turning Back by Robert Kirkman, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/The-Walking-Dead-Volume-25\/dp\/1632156598\">No Turning Back<\/a> chronicles the aftermath of Rick Grimes&#8217; meeting with the latest, direst threat to his community. See, everyone is scared and reactionary, because of the spoilers at the end of <a title=\"My review of The Walking Dead: Life and Death\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5291\">the last book<\/a>. Now Rick has to decide how far he will go to hold it all together.<\/p>\n<p>Which, y&#8217;know. Yet another big threat, I&#8217;ve seen all that before. Rick struggling to decide whether his soul or his community&#8217;s safety is more expendable, that&#8217;s the kind of human drama I can still get behind. I&#8217;d be annoyed that the question isn&#8217;t resolved in this volume, but if it had been, it would definitively be in favor of him not taking some action that crosses The Line, so uncertainty is the best I could have hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: still more books coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a wonder, the latest Walking Dead has a title that isn&#8217;t trite and a storyline to match. No Turning Back chronicles the aftermath of Rick Grimes&#8217; meeting with the latest, direst threat to his community. See, everyone is scared and reactionary, because of the spoilers at the end of the last book. Now Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,30],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}