It's hard to remember a time when The Walking Dead wasn't driven by the battle of wills between Rick Grimes and Negan. The latter made a splashy, blood-soaked debut in issue #100, and he's been a foul-mouthed, psychotic thorn in everyone's side ever since. And after months of chronicling the massive war between Rick's alliance and Negan's Saviors in the "All Out War" storyline, Robert Kirkman finally reaches the conclusion in issue #126. It's a slightly underwhelming conclusion in some ways, but it still manages to build excitement for what comes next.
My main problem with issue #125 was the awkward way Kirkman led into his big cliffhanger. Certainly, it was satisfying to see Negan take a knife to the throat after all the pain and torment he's cause, but I never bought into the idea that Negan would be so easily swayed by Rick's talk of a better world full of cooperation and teamwork. It just rang false. And in a way, that problem carries over into this finale chapter in a new angle. Rick continues his spiel about rebuilding civilization and convincing humanity's survivors to unite against their common, undead enemy, but his platform is undermined by the fact that he just sucker-punched (sucker-knifed?) a man who was apparently more than ready to listen to reason. Rick's actions speak more to the idea that there's a desperate, nasty, opportunistic animal in all of us, and I wish Kirkman had embraced that notion more, rather than trying to paint Rick as a blameless hero.
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