Zombies...yum.
This issue of Walking Dead seems very uninteresting by itself. I don't have anyother issues until number 28 and I feel that this issue is the same as all the others in that you need all of them, or at least several that preced your current issue, in order for anything to make sense and for you to really feel much for the characters. Having bought the Compendium and read the story before this issue everything in this issue makes so much more sense.
This is a good issue overall, the score it's been given is probably unfair, although there is almost no action in this issue and it is really more of a tame segue to the next stage of things to come in the following issues. Regardless of this fact, this is still an important issue. It had to be done, you can't fight zombies 24/7, there has to be some downtime where Rick and the crew try to figure out what they are going to do next. Not to mention the cover is pretty sick.
Overall this issue is not a great one, but you have to remember that the Walking Dead title doesn't work well with just a single issue, you need them all to understand and to care about what is happening. Not that most other comics aren't the same, but this one in particular is hard to keep up with if you don't have the whole story.