The Walking Dead Compendium 1
Chapter 1
Rick Grimes wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world where dead people have come back to life as zombies and eat the living
He’s a deputy and meets Morgan Jones and his son Duane. He provides them with guns and a police car for transport
He rides into Atlanta on a horse and it is ambushed by walkers (zombies). He’s saved by a young man named Glenn
Glenn takes him to a small camp with an RV
Here he finds his son Carl and wife Lori. His police partner and best friend Shane is also there
He also meets Allan and his wife Donna as well as their twins Billy and Ben; the sisters Amy and Andrea; Dale who owns the RV; Carol and her daughter Sophia; and Jim
Rick and Glenn go to the city to grab a supply of guns and then teach people at the camp how to use them
Amy is bitten by a walker and killed. Jim is bitten also
Amy is buried and Jim is left in the woods by his choice
Rick and Shane exchange blows as Rick blames Shane for not wanting to move camp due to Shane thinking the military was coming for them
Shane argues with Rick about ruining his perfect situation and points a gun at him. Carl shoots Shane in the head
Chapter 2
Lori spits on Shane’s grave. Rick agrees with Dale that Shane was probably in love with Lori. Rick doesn’t know they slept together
The group moves and runs into Tyreese and his daughter Julie and her boyfriend Chris. They join
Lori reveals to Rick that she’s pregnant
The group finds a neighborhood: Wiltshire Estates
Carol and Tyreese get together as well as Dale and Andrea. Dale is an old man while Andrea is young
Donna is bitten and killed by a walker
The group leaves the neighborhood. While hunting, Carl is shot by a man named Otis
Carl is taken to a farm owned by a man named Hershel
Hershel saves Carl’s life. He introduces the group to his children Lacey, Arnold, Maggie, Billy and twins Rachel and Susie
Otis and his girlfriend Patricia are also staying with Hershel
Dale suspects Lori’s baby is Shane's child and implores her to tell Rick
Maggie and Glenn begin a thing
Lacey and Arnold are attacked by the walkers Hershel keeps in his barn when they try to put another in there
Hershel is forced to blow the head of his son Arnold and his dead son Shawn who bit Arnold . Rick stops him from killing himself
Hershel rejects Rick’s plan for the group to live there. He points a gun at Rick’s head. Otis stops him. Hershel is shocked with himself
The group leaves while Glenn stays behind with Maggie
The group finds a prison
Chapter 3
They clear it out and find four prisoners inside- their names are Dexter, Axel, Andrew, and Thomas
Lori feels uncomfortably about the inmates. Rick brings Hershel, Glenn, Maggie, Otis, and Patricia in
Chris and Julie attempt suicide by gun. Julie is successful while Chris is alive because he shot her sooner. Tyreese strangles him to death
When Julie resurrects as a walker after dying, Rick goes to Wiltshire Estates to go see if Shane did the same. He finds him, digs him up and shoots him
Hershel finds Rachel and Susie decapitated. Lori accuses Dexter who was imprisoned for the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend. Andrew is accused as his accomplice
Carol kisses Lori. Lori is confused
Tyreese is presumed dead when he rushes into a gym full of walkers. He’s alive
Thomas attempts to decapitate Andrea. He is responsible for Rachel and Susie
Rick beats Thomas to a pulp after seeing him chase Andrea
Rick opts to kill Thomas but Lori objects. Dale is her counterpart in the series in terms of being the moral compass
Dale agrees with Rick
Rick becomes the de facto leader and establishes the rule that if you kill you die. He sentences Thomas to hang
Patricia attempts to let Thomas go who attacks her. Maggie shoots and kills him
Hershel watches as he’s devoured by walkers
Dexter and Andrew, who snuck guns from A block, hold Rick at gunpoint and tell him to get out
Chapter 4
After clearing a group of walkers from A block, Rick shoots Dexter in the head making it look accidental
Andrew surrenders his weapon. Rick’s rationale now changes to killing anyone who is a threat
Otis, who was outside the gates is saved by a black woman carrying a samurai sword and pulling two walkers chained to her who she beheads so she can be accepted into the prison
Otis renounces Patricia for siding with “niggers” for wanting to make the group leave
Allen’s leg is bitten inside the prison after finding a library. Dale and Tyreese find a generator. Rick cuts off Allen’s leg (Hershel in the series)
Tyreese and the black woman (Michonne) engage in sexual acts. Carol secretly witnesses and is upset. Carol breaks it off with him
Rick finds Carol with her wrist cut
Tyreese lands Rick a good one on his face after Rick puts blame on him for not caring and causing Carol’s situation. Rick also brought up Julie
Rick continues to blame him. Rick becomes defensive when Tyreese calls him crazy ever since what Tyreese did to Chris
Tyreese admits to mutilating and dismembering Chris and enjoying it
He accuses Rick of becoming bloodlustful and calls him a hypocrite for justifying Dexter’s murder
Tyreese goads Rick to kill him because he thinks he (Rick) will kill him next. Rick falls down a level
Andrea tells everyone that Allen is dead. Rick volunteers to put him down. Tyreese formerly accused Rick of enjoying killing including when he hacked off Allen’s foot which he in fact did not enjoy
Herschel informs that Carol will be okay
Rick faints after shooting Allen
Carol kisses Rick. She tells him she loves him and Lori and wants a 3-way relationship
A committee is formed as opposed to one person making all the decisions- Rick, Dale, Tyreese, Herschel are the members
Rick gives a speech saying they’re all doomed to become THE WALKING DEAD and the rules of engagement have changed
Chapter 5
Dale and Andrea adopt Billy and Zack
Glenn and Rick spot a helicopter in the sky that crashes in a nearby forest
Glenn, Michonne, and Rick drive to the crash site by following the smoke
They find footprints and deduce that whoever they belonged to took the people in the helicopter
They find a sign that points to 3 towns- Woodbury, Fayetteville, and Atlanta. Rick guesses they were taken to Woodbury since it is only 1km away
They reach Woodbury where they’re met by a group of men with guns who take their weapons for safety purposes
A man named Martinez says he doesn’t want to hurt them. Another man going by the title The Governor who seems to be the leader escorts them into town
Governor shows them walker fighting-pits where he feeds strangers to them
He admits to having the helicopter occupants chopped up to keep the citizens of Woodbury entertained lest they go crazy
Governor knows they have a settlement and supplies and that’s what he’s after
The Governor forcibly chops Rick’s right hand off to show him who’s in control
Michonne attacks and bites his left ear off
Gov has a doctor named Stevens tend to Rick
He beats and rapes Michonne. He also has a daughter who is a walker and feeds her Rick’s hand. He adds the decapitated head of the pilot from the helicopter to his water tanks filled with dozens of heads
Doctor Stevens tells Rick how the Governor’s name is Philip and that he used to be a good man
Stevens and his assistant Alice are both good people
Philip tells Rick he let Glenn go because he’ll lead him to the prison which he deduced out of him
Otis makes amends with Patricia
Philip bluffed and confirmed a prison exists by Rick’s reaction and now he plans to find and take it
Chapter 6
Martinez helps Rick, Stevens, and Alice escape Woodbury. They help Glenn and Michonne
A walker gets Stevens. Michonne goes back for her katana and Governor
Michonne confronts Governor and kicks him in the mouth then in the balls. He vomits
She bites his neck and stubs him on the forehead with the end of her katana
Michonne proceeds to torture him. She drills a hole into his shoulder, pulls off his fingernails with pliers, cuts his right forearm off then cauterizes it with a blowtorch
She lastly takes an eye out with a spoon
Rick’s new groupmates help the prison group against a walker infestation
Otis is killed
Rick realizes Martinez is absent and figures he went to tip the Governor off
Rick chases him down and hits him with the RV. Martinez tells him he wants his people to have a chance as well but Rick can’t risk it. He chokes Martinez to death
Glenn receives Herschel’s blessing to marry Maggie after showing him a ring he found off a walker
He proposes and Maggie says yes
Chapter 7
Glenn and Maggie are married
The group prepares to defend itself from an attack by Woodbury
Lori confesses to Rick about her affair with Shane while thinking Rick was dead. Rick assumes they slept together and that the baby is Shane’s
Dale’s leg is bitten while he and Billy went to siphon gas for the generator because they needed electricity for Lori’s delivery
Lori gives birth to a girl. Dale’s leg is sawed off
Lori names her daughter Judith
Carol commits suicide by walker
The Governor rolls up to the prison with tanks
Chapter 8
Governor is recuperated and confirms that Martinez was working for him
He rallies his men
The twisted man kisses his undead daughter on the lips
Gov and his men find more of their men dead at a Walmart where they were killed by Glenn, Andrea, and Tyreese from failed negotiations while scavenging for supplies prior
Gov begins the attack on the prison
Gov is hit and Andrea is head-grazed
Gov calls a retreat
Rick is hit and is hospitalized with Andrea
Dale suggests to Andrea that they leave the group for their own safety and the safety of Billy and Zack. Andrea refuses
Dale insists on Lori joining them but she refuses to leave Rick. He tells her he’ll take Sophia then for her protection
Tyreese and Michonne go off together to find and follow and take out some of Gov’s men
Dale, Andrea, Billy, Zack, Sophia, Glenn, and Maggie leave together in Dale’s RV
Herschel feels like it’s the last time he’ll see Maggie
Tyreese is captured. One of Gov’s men claims Michonne is dead and shows Gov her katana
Alice catches Patricia having sex with Axel
Governor returns to the prison with Tyreese hostage and bound
He gives Rick’s group the ultimatum of going with him or killing Tyreese. The group does not join him
Gov beheads Tyreese (Herschel in the series)
Michonne is alive and well
Lori is angry with Rick for letting for Tyreese die
Governor and his men drive the prison fence down
Axel is shot dead
Gov’s right-hand man Philip is killed by Andrea. Dale’s group returned
The fence comes completely down
Rick plans to make a run for it to a truck with his family
Patricia is shot dead by the Governor
Herschel’s son Billy is killed
The Governor kills Alice
Lori and Judith are killed
Kneeling in anguish, Herschel begs Governor to kill him which he does by execution to the head
The woman who killed Lori is repentant and hits Governor with her rifle who is then killed by Gov
Governor is shot in the back of the head by one of his own. The walkers eat him
Rick and Carl hike away from the prison and cry together as they mourn their losses