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Issue 170: The Soap Opera: The Horror Story![]
This issue was pretty bad, not 166 bad, mind you, but bad. We get Eugene's group on the road, talking and what not, all very exciting I assure you. We get Rick telling Jesus to keep an eye on Dwight, probably a good idea since he's obviously going to become a villain. Gotta be honest I was never a big fan of Dwight, he's kinda overrated imo, but this is just a bad direction for him, it's completely out of left field and forced as fuck, also he suddenly sees Negan as a "necessary evil" LOL where did that come from? The dude's entire character was always "GRR NEGAN BAD I H8 NEGAN" Now I personally think Negan is a far better leader than Rick, but Dwight has no reason to be thinking like this. And can we please stop with this "NEGAN AND RICK ARE THE SAME???" garbage? They're nothing alike.
Then we get Maggie brooding, guess she's upset about sending generic dudebro man after Negan? Yeah, probably a bad idea to send one guy after a dangerous individual like Negan, my guess is Dante will do something stupid and get himself caught by Negan, whether he dies or not, I don't really care. We also get more crybaby Negan, gosh I love seeing one of the coolest villains of recent memory be reduced to a blubbering baby every five seconds. Imagine the Joker doing this shit. Also, man is his "FUNNY" dialogue getting stale. I get Negan always said weird stuff, but it was usually something clever, or y'know actually funny. Not all this "FOOT VAGINA XD" and "KITCHEN OF DEATH" and "PLEASE SUCK MY COCK, RICK I LOVE RICK NOW HAHA" This all sounds like bad Andrew Dice Clay stand-up.
We also get a "heart warming" scene between Rick and Mikey (everyone's favorite characters) Mikey is crying cause his mommy died and I guess Rick is the only one who can talk to him. Let me tell you this was a very depressing scene. Not since I had a heart to heart with a tree have I ever been more emotionally invested. We also see Big William again, after a like ten issue absence, pretty much the only somewhat interesting post timeskip character. I always thought he was being setup as a potential villain, but this issue seems to confirm he's just Generic Nice Man #493995. Unless he's trying to get on Maggie's side to setup for a potential revolt against Rick??? Yeah, yeah, wishful thinking. Oh yeah, we also get some cringe worthy dialogue between Aaron and Ninja Man. Seriously how much panel time have these two had again?
And onto the meat of the issue, being the plot with Eugene and his Merry Men. We see Magna and Yumiko are fucking... cool I guess. I actually called this as a joke a few months back, never thought it would actually happen. I never got the sense of anything romantic between them, but I guess they're so void of personality Kirkman could pretty much do anything with them and it'd probably work. After some shenanigans with zombies the group makes it to Pittsburgh and it's empty, exciting. They camp out in a store or something and Seedick reveals to Eugene that he was Rosita's baby daddy. HOLY POOP THIS IS EXCITING. He says Rosita loved him, even though they literally had one, FUCKING ONE on-panel interaction together, go back and reads 127, the chemistry practically leaps off the page, I tell ya.
As you can tell, I didn't really like the issue. Post thoughts in the comments!
Here's Nogo: Why did this exist?[]
This will be short, cause I honestly don't have much to say about it. This story was completely pointless, all it did was give us the most standard, cliche backstory for Negan possible. The "muh wife died :(" story. C'mon, I never saw this dude as a family man. I always thought he was a loner type, the kind of guy who blew all his money on strippers and used the outbreak to live out power fantasies, the multiple wives thing for example. But, hey, that's just a theory! Negan never mentioned anything about having a family before the timeskip, aside from confirming he had no children. Kirkman obviously pulled this dumb backstory out of his ass to make a stupid Rick parallel, cause THEY THE SAME!!! Anyway, this story was dumb and really offered nothing, I wanted to see Negan's first encounter with the Hilltop, personally, but oh well.