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4.5

A lot of mixed feelings with this one. It's my favourite volume so far, the story is just phenomenal and kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time, not to mention how good the art for the graphic fight scenes are... it was an almost perfect story. Unfortunately I'm just at the point where I think this series would be better without Eve at all. You get this hint of backstory and depth, which is then completely undermined by unnecessary boob jokes. Mark and Eve have gone through so many extremely traumatic experiences, complete with out-of-nowhere relationship progression, and then it's just back to them sleeping with each other at inappropriate times. They don't feel anywhere close to being a real or believable couple. I wish Kirkman was better at writing female characters—he succeeds sometimes with characters like Debbie—because it feels like such an uncomfortable contrast next to the amazingly written storylines.