Issue 52 is the fifty-second issue of Image Comics' The Walking Dead: Small Bites, featured exclusively in the Deluxe edition of Issue 123. It was released on October 15, 2025.

Plot Synopsis

Negan drives a truck through Hilltop's gates, with Rusty and other Saviors skiing on walkers from the back. Rick is shocked and angered by Rusty's betrayal as he watches as Rusty cause the deaths of multiple Hilltop colonists, but refuses to surrender. As Rusty starts to go off on a tangent, Negan wonders why the lamest assholes are the easiest to manipulate.

Credits

• Michonne Hawthorne
• Rick Grimes
• Negan
• Ezekiel
• Rusty

Deaths

• Many unnamed Hilltop residents

Trivia

• This is the first issue Ezekiel appears without Shiva.

v • d • e Issues of The Walking Dead: Small Bites
Life Among Them	#1 • #2 • #3
Too Far Gone	#4 • #5 • #6 • #7 • #8 • #9
No Way Out	#10 • #11 • Where's Carl-O • #12 • #13 • #14
We Find Ourselves	#15 • #16 • #17 • #18 • #19 • #20
A Larger World	#21 • #22 • #23 • #24 • #25 • #26
Something To Fear	#27 • #28 • #29 • #30 • #31 • #32
What Comes After	#33 • #34 • #35 • #36 • #37 • #38
March To War	#39 • #40 • #41 • #42 • #43 • #44
All Out War - Part One	#45 • #46 • #47 • #48 • #49
All Out War - Part Two	#50 • #51 • #52 • #53 • #54 • #55
A New Beginning	#56 • #57 • #58 • #59 • #60 • #61
Whispers Into Screams	#62 • #63 • #64 • #65 • #66 • #67
Life And Death	#68 • #69 • #70 • #71 • #72 • #73
No Turning Back	#74 • #75 • #76 • #77 • #78 • #79
Call To Arms	#80 • #81 • #82 • #83 • #84 • #85
The Whisperer War	#86 • #87 • #88 • #89 • #90 • #91
A Certain Doom	#92 • #93 • #94 • #95 • #96 • #97
Lines We Cross	#98 • #99 • #100 • #101 • #102 • #103
New World Order	#104 • #105 • #106 • #107 • #108 • #109
The Rotten Core	#110 • #111 • #112 • #113 • #114 • #115
Rest In Peace	#116 • #117 • #118 • #119 • #120 • #121 • #122