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Cover of The Walking Dead Vols. 3–4: Safety Behind Bars & The Heart's Desire
Atlanta and the prison · issues #13–24

The Walking Dead Vols. 3–4: Safety Behind Bars & The Heart's Desire

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The group tries to turn a prison into a home, and Michonne enters the story; collects issues #13–24

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Quick recap

The group clears the prison and finds four living inmates inside. Hershel moves his family in and it starts to feel like home, until his twin daughters are murdered and one of the inmates turns out to be the killer. Chris and Tyreese's daughter, Julie, make a suicide pact that goes wrong, and Tyreese kills the boy. Michonne arrives with her katana and two chained walkers. Rick fights Tyreese, faces an armed inmate uprising during a walker attack and agrees to share command with a council. It closes with the speech that names the series: the survivors are the walking dead.

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Trivia

  1. ReferenceMichonne debuts in #19

    Michonne first appears in issue #19, from June 2005. On TV she shows up hooded in the season 2 finale, before Danai Gurira was even cast.

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  2. SetupLook at the katana

    Michonne's katana has a triquetra, a three-pointed interlaced symbol, on the inner crossguard.

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  3. Behind the scenesLettered by Rus Wooton

    From issue #20 on, the lettering is by Rus Wooton, who stayed on the series to the end.

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  4. Behind the scenesShades of gray

    The comic's black-and-white look gets its gray tones from Cliff Rathburn, who shaded Adlard's art. The series only got color in a 2020 reprint.

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