Chapter One (Book One)

Chapter One
Creator, Writer	Tillie Walden
Penciler, Inker	Tillie Walden Cliff Rathburn
Volume	Book One
Part	1 of 10
Preceded By	"Clementine Lives"
Succeeded By	"Chapter Two"

Chapter One is the first chapter of Skybound Comet's Clementine: Book One.

Plot

The story begins with Clementine walking through the woods after her departure from the school. After a close encounter with a group of zombies, she slips in a gap, breaking her prosthetic leg in the process. Clementine goes to a barn to rest for the night, where she has a nightmare about Lee dropping her during an escape from zombies. She wakes up and decides to travel during the night.

The next morning, as she gathers water, she hearing an argument between three Amish girls. Clementine attempts to leave unnoticed, but she speaks out loud in pain as she gets her period, alerting the girls of her presence. Clementine tries to calm the situation down and leave without conflict, but one of the girls, named Joy, holds Clementine at gunpoint. After, Clementine explains the situation, they take notice of her prosthetic and invite her to their town. One of the girls asks Clementine her name and she hesitantly responds. Another one introduces herself as Meredith. They take Clementine to the entrance of their community, where one of the girls' father takes Clementine through the entrance procedure. After she's done, she meets up with Meredith who gives her a tour of the town and takes her to Rabby.

He rewraps her leg, telling her she needs to be washing and redressing it more often, and proceeds makes a new prosthetic leg for Clementine while telling her about the how the prosthetist who taught him everything he knows about the subject and the death of his son. Later that night, after Rabby finishes making the prosthetic for Clementine, she decides to leave the town. Rabby gives her a cane and supplies she'll need for her leg and she goes outside to meet Meredith, who has been waiting with two other kids. Meredith gives Clementine a bag that her mother prepared for her and leave the town. She sleeps in a tree for the night, saying she'll have to think of a name for her new prosthetic.

Credits

• Clementine
• Joy
• Meredith
• John
• Amos
• Rabby
• Lee Everett (Dream)

Deaths

• Prosthetist (Confirmed Fate)
• Rabby's Son (Confirmed Fate)

Trivia

• First appearance of Amos.
• First appearance (in Clementine continuity) of Lee Everett. (Dream)
• Only appearance of Joy.
• Only appearance of Meredith.
• Only appearance of John.
• Only appearance of Rabby.
• This full chapter was released on Free Comic Book Day 2022 under the name Issue One.
• While resting in the barn, Clementine says "This would be so much easier if I still had that car..." referencing the car she and AJ drove in "Done Running".
• Clementine's New Frontier marking can be seen on her arm when she's gathering water.

Chapter Highlights

• Clementine is given a new prosthetic foot by Rabby.