The Walking Dead quickly squanders some of its newfound good will in the underwhelming issue #187. Read Full Review

There's definitely a cool and interesting story to be told, but it's a shame it's buried in such a clutter. Read Full Review

In true Robert Kirkman fashion, the most interesting part is saved for the last page, and it's just enough to keep us coming back next month. Read Full Review

Overall, I'm still not quite content with the direction the comic is going. This could be because of how long it's been running. But you can only take on so many groups before it starts getting old. Hope this saga adds more ingenuity. Read Full Review

The latest issue of The Walking Dead deals with the fallout of Dwight's assassination attempt and subsequent death last issue. Rick is presented as the hero for taking Dwight down but he is haunted by the decision and blames Michonne for forcing his hand. 


The Princess decides to leave the commonwealth sensing that the the underlying tensions within the community are brewing and will eventually boil over into conflict. 
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Meanwhile a contingent from the Hilltop, including Carl intend to head out to the commonwealth to scope out the situation since Rick and Co. been gone for a while and has not checked in.  

This issue is a pretty standard Walking Dead comic. I'm actually considering switching to reviewing this series in trade. There's just not enough happening from issue to issue and even the "Oh Shit" moments feel lackluster. It's not that the comic is terribly written but the decompression of the commonwealth story line is dragging down the series. 
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The only point in the issue that caught my interest was the reveal of the Princess's backstory. She's a B or C list character so the reaction to her origin got more of a huh, rather than oh well that's cool. 

There is an interesting cliffhanger but again the decompression kills the momentum and urgency of anything going on in the series. I want to know whats going on but I'm not as engaged as Kirkman would like me to be. 

I'll stick it out a couple more issues but if the pace doesn't pick up I may switch to reading in trade or dropping all together.  more

This issue is just more moving pieces. This entire arc regarding the commonwealth seems stuck in place. Things are slowly unfolding, sure. But for every big moment, there's issues and issues of bare bones character interactions. For a while, it was characters realizing how good things are. Now it seems to be relationship focused. Carl and Lydia have an argument, but it's resolved by the end of the issue so it felt particularly pointless. Sophia is still seeing that one guy. And Maggie still has some sort of relationship with that other guy. Princess decides to leave the commonwealth and the relationship she's built with one of the guards. And Jesus and Aaron are still gay, if you remember. This series is on a constant simmer, in terms of plot. And you can only do that for so long before it just begins to bore. Even the ramifications of Dwight's death, I meet with apathy. This series can be incredible, but there's so many droughts to drudge through, and this commonwealth arc seems to be one. more