The first part was very heart breaking. In fact alot of this novel was really dealing with alot of heartache and how people go on in the midst of it all. So many questions to ask that we think while reading the novel, and they start answering some of it, and just when we think things will be resolved... well sometimes they are and sometimes they're not. My favourite part of the novel was Chapter 16. The main reason I started reading the novels was because of the hope I saw while watching the show (as ironic as that sounds.) It's so hard to have hope in the midst of such crappy circumstances. This had some of the most heart warming moments in the whole graphic novel. I hate zombies in general, never have gotten into them at all, never was a genre I wanted to delve into, but The Walking Dead really helped me in a lot of ways to potentially look into other zombie things (I'm still not convinced that I will like them.) I really appreciated the authors/artists who compiled this and the way they put it all together. It fit so well! And you can tell there was a lot of thought put into how they wanted to present the big news, or sometimes make it seem minor when it was actual huge news. Very thoughtfully done. The dialogue in it sometimes was a little bit wooden, but you can't get away from that, it happens in some novels. But, overall very impressed with how intelligent and coherent the story is so far. I look forward to Compendium 3 or wherever this story goes until.