Weekend Reading-- The Walking Dead Compendium

I've tried The Walking Dead once or twice but never really got into it. I think I've only gotten as far as the second collection and just never really felt motivated by the story to go any further. Actually, if anything has motivated me, it's been the legions of comic fans praising this book every month it comes out. I've wanted to go back and try the book again but never really wanted to only have the first book to get stalled on again. Also, I know that everyone loves that first Tony Moore- drawn book but I've always really liked Charlie Adlard's work. He's one of those guys who has such a great sense of line and cartooning but is hardly ever praised. And since he's been committed to The Walking Dead, there's been no where else to see Adlard's artwork. So I guess if I'm going to get find some art I like, I'll have to get into The Walking Dead sooner or later. Luckily at last weekend's C2E2, I found a book that had this Compendium for only $30, half of its cover price, so I had no excuse to finally revisit Robert Kirkman's story again. Now that I have it, I'm looking forward to checking this story out again and seeing if it lives up to the love it gets from its fans. It's odd but there are a couple of books from roughly the same period as The Walking Dead #1 that I had this same reaction with: Fables and Y The Last Man. I finally got into Y and thought it was good. Fables is still a difficult book for me. I've read many issues of it here and there but it's never grabbed me the same way it seems to have grabbed anyone else. I love Buckingham's artwork in it but Willingham's story just doesn't do anything for me. I'm hoping that Walking Dead will be a lot like Y, where I can easily get into the story after I check it out again.