Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Chris
- Duane Jones
- Julie
- Mike (Death)
- Terry (Death)
Villains:
Other Characters
- Scott
Locations
Items
- Michonne's katana
- Tyreese's hammer
Synopsis for 1st story
Michonne
Returning from her office, Michonne runs home through zombie infested street. Fearing everyone close to her was death, she arrives at her house and finds her boyfriend, Mike, and his best friend, Terry. While she rushes in, a zombie gets stuck in the door and bites Mike, who was trying to keep it shut. Terry then decapitates the zombie with a baseball bat. Michonne takes care of Mike's wound, still unaware that one bite is a death sentence. Later that night, she enters her neighbor's house looking for a gun, but instead she finds a collection of katanas. With too many zombies outside, Michonne spent the night in that abandoned house. The next morning, she returns home to find both Terry and Mike turned into zombies. Unable to kill them, Michonne locked them in a room and take shelter from the swarm zombies drawn by her screams. Running out of food, Michonne noticed how zombies don't attack each other, so she cut off Mike And Terry's arms and jaws and kept them as her escorts, protecting her from the other zombies. Months pass, and she has no one else to talk but her zombie friends while she roams through the wild, looking for food, supplies, and a safe place to stay.
Tyreese
While looking for supplies at a friend's office, Tyreese gets surrounded by zombies, and uses the gun he just found to fend off against them. However, he is a terrible shot, and most of his bullets hit their bodies, except for one head shot. He runs out of ammo, and he uses the butt of the gun to smack a zombie's head before tossing it. Desperate, he runs toward a parked truck, where he finds a hammer inside a tool box. With his new melee weapon, Tyreese kills all the zombies around him and runs home. When he gets inside the house, Chris confuses him with a zombie and almost kills him. Tyreese explains that his supply run was a failure, losing the gun and unable to get the keys for a car. Chris snaps, complaining about Tyreese treating them like children, and asks defiantly what did he find, to which Tyreese responds he found a hammer he's about to put through his head. Scared, Chris walks away from him. Julie then hugs his father and says they're all scared, and Tyreese reassures her that he will protect her. Julie then asks why did he brought a hammer, if they already have one in the house. Tyreese responds that this one is special because it saved his life.
Morgan
It's winter, and Morgan is chopping firewood to keep him and his son warm in the house they're holed in. Duane helps him enter the house, and he complains that he's bored of reading the same comic books over and over again. Morgan then gives him an early Christmas gift. He gives him a box, and when Duane unwraps it, he finds a Gameboy, with games and batteries included. Thankful, Duane sits on the couch and starts playing with his new toy, while Morgan throws another log of wood to the fire. He sits by the chimney and thinks about how much the world changed, and how he feels wrong about "stealing" all this stuff, even though most of the places were already looted. He sometimes wishes for a cop to show up and arrest him, just to be sure that they are not the only ones still alive. Morgan apologizes for saying that horrible thought out loud, but Duane is so entertained with the game that he didn't hear his father. Seeing his son being happy again, a tear comes out of Morgan's eye, and he wishes Duane a merry Christmas.
The Governor
The Governor takes Scott, a member of Woodbury, to a supply run at an abandoned Walmart. Together they loot some fish tanks and take them to the Governor's apartment in Woodbury. They hear a sudden thump coming from the other room, and Scott jokes asking if he's holding a girl back there or something else. The Governor replies it's something else, and tells him to ignore it. Scott then asks what does he wants all the fish tanks for, and he replies that to become the governor of Woodbury, as people call him, he has to become strong, decisive, and brutal to face the horrors of this new world. To prepare himself, he plans on putting horrifying things in those tanks so he can stare at them until it doesn't scare him anymore, until it amuses him. Only then he will be ready for the world outside. The Governor then says that he plans of putting severed heads in those tanks, starting with Scott's.
Notes
- Stories from this issue were reprinted in the following:
- Tyreese's story in The Walking Dead Tyreese Special #1
- Michonne's story in The Walking Dead Michonne Special #1
- The Governor's story in The Walking Dead The Governor Special #1
- Morgan's story is the only one taken from the main series, specifically the flashback at the end of The Walking Dead #34.