It may just be me, but it seems The Walking Dead has begun a steady decline in quality, however only in the TV show and the comics.
The only good piece of media with TWD label are the games. Despite a hiccup concerning delays, Telltale produced consistently good stories with the first season, even after years of ''writing by the seat of their pants'' for other titles. Nothing could be further from the truth with the other incarnations.
As far back as I can remember, it all started with the 2nd season of the TV series - wherein all of the characters stood around talking about doing things or just talking about nothing without anything important happening. I'd accept the defense that it was for character development, but characters can only develop when shit happens, not when shit stagnates. And season 2 stagnated to hell and back. And with that, the facade began to crumble as I noticed more and more how the writing became insipid, simple. As if it was made for Joanne and Cletus from Frogballs, Nowhere. Simple, almost predictable dialogue about ''we must be human, we cannot kill durr''. The performances don't help any. They seem forced and the actors straining. Especially Andrew Lincoln who seems to think a Jack Bauer whisper and Jaden Smith forehead wrinkles a good actor make. The only actor who ever seemed really comfortable and at ease was David Morrissey. The cunning villain role just came naturally to the man. Whereas Lincoln always looks like he's holding in a turd.
And then we come to the most sacrosanct: the comic itself. The stories were OK, up until the Negan arc. It started out very promising. A man that has an almost cult like devotion from his followers, promising more destruction and violence than even the Governor himself. And yet, the man himself is particularly underwhelming and the whole interaction between his group and Rick's is standard.
''Fucking give the fuck up, you fucking fucks! FUCK!'' (note: this is a caricature of how Negan speaks)
-''No, you give up!''
*shootout*
Really, the comic is just retreading the same old ground as with the Prison/Governor arc. But hey, I could stomach it for a while. Maybe Kirkman had something more interesting planned. And oh my was I right. The 10th anniversary 12 part special. 2 issues a month, sans October and December. I was hyped. Finally, they'd have the means to move the story at a faster pace! Shit would finally go down!
And yet, in the three issues since, only two things have happened the Survivors and Saviours had a small firefight and a member of the Survivors got captured. That is literally all that happened in three issues. I dread to imagine how agonizingly slow the story will crawl now that Kirkman gets to rip his readers off for two issues a month (sans December). As if the previous volume (March to War) wasn't slow enough, All Out War is really pushing the boundaries of laziness.
When Crossed: Badlands has better written stories than your critically acclaimed comic does, I'd suggest just giving up because that is low.
The only good piece of media with TWD label are the games. Despite a hiccup concerning delays, Telltale produced consistently good stories with the first season, even after years of ''writing by the seat of their pants'' for other titles. Nothing could be further from the truth with the other incarnations.
As far back as I can remember, it all started with the 2nd season of the TV series - wherein all of the characters stood around talking about doing things or just talking about nothing without anything important happening. I'd accept the defense that it was for character development, but characters can only develop when shit happens, not when shit stagnates. And season 2 stagnated to hell and back. And with that, the facade began to crumble as I noticed more and more how the writing became insipid, simple. As if it was made for Joanne and Cletus from Frogballs, Nowhere. Simple, almost predictable dialogue about ''we must be human, we cannot kill durr''. The performances don't help any. They seem forced and the actors straining. Especially Andrew Lincoln who seems to think a Jack Bauer whisper and Jaden Smith forehead wrinkles a good actor make. The only actor who ever seemed really comfortable and at ease was David Morrissey. The cunning villain role just came naturally to the man. Whereas Lincoln always looks like he's holding in a turd.
And then we come to the most sacrosanct: the comic itself. The stories were OK, up until the Negan arc. It started out very promising. A man that has an almost cult like devotion from his followers, promising more destruction and violence than even the Governor himself. And yet, the man himself is particularly underwhelming and the whole interaction between his group and Rick's is standard.
''Fucking give the fuck up, you fucking fucks! FUCK!'' (note: this is a caricature of how Negan speaks)
-''No, you give up!''
*shootout*
Really, the comic is just retreading the same old ground as with the Prison/Governor arc. But hey, I could stomach it for a while. Maybe Kirkman had something more interesting planned. And oh my was I right. The 10th anniversary 12 part special. 2 issues a month, sans October and December. I was hyped. Finally, they'd have the means to move the story at a faster pace! Shit would finally go down!
And yet, in the three issues since, only two things have happened the Survivors and Saviours had a small firefight and a member of the Survivors got captured. That is literally all that happened in three issues. I dread to imagine how agonizingly slow the story will crawl now that Kirkman gets to rip his readers off for two issues a month (sans December). As if the previous volume (March to War) wasn't slow enough, All Out War is really pushing the boundaries of laziness.
When Crossed: Badlands has better written stories than your critically acclaimed comic does, I'd suggest just giving up because that is low.
