I gave up on the series a few years ago (pretty soon after half of the cast had been killed by the Evil Moustache Guy and his henchmen) because it didn't feel like Kirkman was willing to advance the main plot in any substantial way beyond Shocking Character Deaths, and those were getting tired too. I don't think zombie apocalypse is a good setting for a series that goes on year after year after year, because it severely limits the kind of stories you can tell within it, so if you at some point you need to actually conclude the story unless you want to bore the readers. (And in zombie apocalypse stories the conclusion usually involves either killing everyone, or a cure being found; is The Walking Dead's plot anywhere near something like that at the moment?) At least with Invincible Kirkman still manages to do some fresh things in his stories even after 10+ years, because the superhero setting has (by design) a lot more storytelling options than the zombie one.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link