I didn't care for her either

 

I hope she dies next issue. Preferably in the first panel.

 

Yeah it was pretty lame but Kirkman said in letter hacks she is an important character or something along those lines

 

Didn't you read the comic? She's only important because she's Mexican. Nothing is more important in the apocalypse than ethnic diversity.

 

Not much happened other than meeting Princess, but I still enjoyed the issue. I think with her humor they are setting up a future situation where things [at least temporarily] go sour with some of the Ohio group members due to Princess. She will likely say something inappropriate at the wrong time and it will throw a wrench in things. If she drops the schtick and we see what kind of personality she is really left with after being alone for a year, she could become an interesting character.

I enjoy issues that reinforce how desolate the apocalypse is. If she is telling the truth, and has really not seen another human being for a year, then it reminds us how bleak and devastating their world is. We get used to seeing so many characters from all the different groups now, that sometimes the decimated apocalypse feeling is muted. Its nice to get that feel back a little bit when we meet a loner like her, or when Magna's group comes and informs us they also saw no human beings for months. It reminds us how special the people we are reading about really are.

 

Somewhat, but I think in a world where perhaps 99.9+ percent of people are dead, we are seeing a close approximation of what reality might be. The areas where people weren't lucky enough to find each other and form a fortified place to live, and work together to help each other stay alive as a community, would have had most of its rare survivors either die off or move away. I think the people who did manage to find a place like Alexandria, and whatever awaits us in Ohio, would likely be the exception rather than the rule, with so few survivors alive.

So I would expect to see very long stretches of desolation in between communities. And they may well be passing by communities along the way, but unless they come within a quarter mile of one, or happen to run into that community's scavengers while they're out on a run, they would likely pass right by and never know it was there.

So its hard to say what the reality really is. I'm just glad they are showing us that its a world where you can still go months or more without running into another human, especially if you don't try to actively find anyone else. Maybe Princess has been hunkered down in the same square mile of city all this time.

 

I like the princess. Happy to see that the first unofficial representative of Pittsburgh in TWD is rocking an M240b. I say unofficial because she didn't say "yinz," one goddamn time, and she had numerous opportunities to do so. That's the only thing stopping me from trusting her. It's unnatural.

I also liked Eugene's scene. That went well.

 

Honda ole pal!!

 

Neuro ole-er pal!!

 

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Awwww.

 

She has a bad case of resting bitch face.

 

My eyes nearly rolled out of my skull reading the "minority" dialogue. I don't understand why anyone cares about race IRL. I imagine it's far less important during the zombie apocalypse.

Social justice TWD is the worst TWD.

 

So, hurricane prep and then the hurricane itself put me off from being able to pick up this issue until yesterday.

Goddamn weather.

I was okay with the issue. Princess seems... a bit off her rocker, but being isolated for that long would probably do it. Wasn't a great issue, wasn't a horrible issue. Enjoyed the Eugene scene; that went better than I thought it would, honestly. Was not really a big fan of the diversity talk - not because I dislike diversity, but rather that it felt shoe-horned in for the sake of being there rather than a more natural conversation. Kept waiting for Michonne to be like, "We're all trying to survive the end of the world, this really doesn't matter anymore. Priorities."

Lack of Negan made me not-so-sad that it took over a week to acquire the issue, though. And judging by Letter Hacks, sounds like we won't see my big lug again until December. Sad face.