Glad to see I am not the only member here who keeps up with TWD.
What do you mean by Kirkman breaking the fourth wall? Negan explaining his reasoning for who he is going to kill? Didn't really feel like a genuine wall break to me.
The Walking Dead #101
Still waiting for things to pick up or for some big game changer to happen in order to keep things interesting. The story has been meandering for a while. We were promised something really big in issue #100, and it really wasn't that big.
*SPOILERS* Someone died, and all those extra pages they'd been advertising issue #100 would have were used in order to show that character die in as much unnecessary brutal detail as possible. *SPOILERS*
It really isn't worth reading on a monthly basis, because each issue just isn't interesting enough on its own anymore. After issue #102 ends the current arc, I am just going to forget about the series for a while and maybe come back six months or so later to enjoy several issues in a row.
What I'd kind of like to see happen to mix things up and carry the story forward would be something along the lines of Rick and most of the other survivors we are close to dying, then skipping ahead a few years and showing us a teenage to young adult Carl in the leadership role. Carl has been molded to be this totally badass character, but he is still this little kid. I'd really like to see what he is like when he is older, and I don't want to have to wait 20 real life years for the story to progress that far, which is what we are looking at at this rate.
Oh, and as of a couple of months ago, I now have a Rick Grimes (comic version, of course) action figure on my desk near my Bouncer (Bioshock) figure.