5 Stars
Pros: Negan and Lucille's backstory/Maggie and Negan's stand off.
Cons: Princess is probably the most obnoxious character that's been in this series and I don't know why they introduced her so late.
Full Review:
All the Communities begin to rebuild and attempt to recover from the Whisperers zombie horde attack. Carl goes back to the Hilltop to start helping in the rebuilding project. Negan goes off on his own with food and finds a place to settle down. Maggie has Dante follow him and mark exactly where it is that Negan's living. It's obvious she's planning her revenge since she can't believe that Rick just let Negan walk away. Dwight feels the same way and tells Rick that he thinks his time as Leader of Alexandria is over and that Dwight should step in.
Rick makes it absolutely clear that there is a rage boiling deep inside of him and that if Dwight crosses him, he will react, because after all, what's one more grave? He continues to sleep at Andrea's gravesite and it's obvious he's not dealing well at all. Laura and Dwight see Rick leaving the cemetery one night and Laura tells Dwight that it's obvious Rick is in pain and that they should just let things be, but Dwight won't budge an inch. So Laura walks away, telling him that maybe once he gets over the woman that screwed him twice over, that she might still be around.
Jesus and Aaron, who are now together, strike off on their own. They run into Beta, who's surprisingly still alive, but they take care of the problem. In their travels they find others who were planning on becoming Whisperers but at the mention of the Communities, the new people jump at the chance.
Eugene, Michonne, Siddiq, Yumiko and Magna head off to Ohio to meet with Eugene's mystery lady, Stephanie. When they were hiding from the zombie horde, Siddiq found Eugene's radio. He in turn told Rick and Rick demands to speak to Stephanie. So he does and she agrees to a meeting place. The crew assembles and head off. They walk into Pittsburgh and find it completely empty of human or zombies except for one girl who has dubbed herself the Princess of Pittsburgh. They decide to take her with them and head off towards the meeting place. While traveling, Siddiq reveals that Rosita loved him. And so we find out who the Father of Rosita's baby was. Eugene doesn't tell him what Rosita told him, he lets him believe that Rosita loved him, he doesn't have the heart to tell him the truth. They get to the meeting spot but no one is there. Floodlights flash on and they're told to put their weapons down and their hands in the air.
Meanwhile Negan is scraping by. He visits the grave of his dead wife, Lucille every day and even brings her flowers. He has a surprise visit from Maggie, who asks him if he can remember his wife's voice, if he can see her face. And he says that yes, he can. And she admits that all she can remember of Glenn is the way he screamed her name after Negan had bashed his head in. She points a gun at him and Negan begs her to kill him, pleads with her but she eventually decides that no, he has to live with what he's done.
The volume ends with Negan, by a fire, burning an old baseball bat that he had found and was going to wrap in barbed wire. It seems that he's moved past the need for Lucille. Perhaps he's actually growing into a human being.
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