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I'm becoming a little disappointed in a couple of the comic books I'm following. Loveless has been going absolutely nowhere, and if it doesn't go somewhere in the next couple of issues, I'm just going to drop it as a title. The art has gone to hell, and the story is practically non-existent.

Unfortunately, The Walking Dead is also not going well. I haven't been collecting the monthly issues of this like I have of Loveless. Instead, I've been buying the trades. The fifth trade came out recently, and I bought a copy of it. Up until now, I've been content with the story. It's been moving too quick and glossing over a lot of interesting parts, but the characters all seem to be neat (even if they keep dropping like flies, only to be replaced by other characters).

With the fifth trade, though, I'm just about ready to stop reading. I swear the lead character needs to die. What happened to him in the fifth trade is a lot more than a temporary setback.

However, I find the Thunderdome nutballs to be kind of interesting, but I'm sure the story will end up with the main characters on the run through zombie-infested America once again. How many times will they have to pull up stakes and move again?

Oh well. I'm less tempted to drop The Walking Dead because there are some neat ideas about what happens after the zombie apocalypse, but I guess whether or not I continue reading will depend on what happens in the next couple of trades (number six is due out in February, I think).