“New World Order” has been light on action and heavy on dialogue for most of its run, and that doesn’t change in the sixth and final chapter. The Walking Dead #180 provides some necessary character development as the leaders of Alexandria and the Commonwealth meet for the first time, but the talky approach doesn’t exactly help this arc end on the most thrilling note.
To say issue #180 serves as much of a conclusion at all would be misleading. The series’ narrative seems to be shifting to a more free-form state lately, with individual storylines bleeding into the next. That’s all fine and well, but there’s still a frustrating sense of anticlimax to this issue. With as much potential as there is in the notion of Rick’s gang coming up against a bigger and more prosperous settlement, the series is clearly in no rush to get to the meat of this conflict.
Source: IGN.com The Walking Dead Comic Slows to a Crawl