Nevertheless, Sebastian fires more bullets into Rick to silence him forever, then races off into the night. Sebastian apologizes, apparently having not intended to actually shoot Rick. This doesn’t at all sit well with Milton’s pampered, hot-headed son Sebastian, who slips into Rick’s room one evening, raving at him with a gun in his hand, before firing a bullet right into Rick’s chest. Rick ultimately manages to dethrone Milton and peacefully bring together the people of the Commonwealth. Milton and Rick tentatively attempt to make the alliance between the Commonwealth and Rick’s homebase of Alexandria work, though a rebel uprising soon threatens the status quo and forces Rick to question Milton’s leadership abilities. and the people of the Commonwealth, including its leader, Governor Pamela Milton. An uneasy alliance is struck between Rick and Co. Our heroes have recently discovered a massive community called the Commonwealth, comprised of thousands of members who participate in its questionable, class-based system. The rest of the issue is devoted to the fallout of Rick’s legacy and death, and how it has affected the world he’d helped bring back from the brink of extinction.įor uninitiated readers who aren’t caught up on the comic and yet are curious about this major event, a bit of background on recent happenings in the world of the comic…
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The following morning, Rick’s son Carl (still quite alive in the comics, TV viewers) discovers the zombified version of his pop and guns him down in self defense before he could even realize who it was that he had just killed. In the very first pages of the following issue, a remorseful yet frightened murderer apologizes to Rick just before firing more bullets into him, killing our hero as he lay defenseless in bed. He was our constant! Our rock, our mainstay! He was the backbone of the entire tale!Īt worst, I assumed Rick would wind up in a hospital bed, taken out of commission for awhile as he healed up and eventually returned, allowing other characters to take the spotlight for a time. Hell, it’s his story! We opened on him being born into this newly undead world! We followed him step by step, through terror and tragedy, even as the cast of characters grew and changed around him.
As a fan who’s been with the comic since the beginning, I never for a moment considered the possibility that Rick friggin’ Grimes could die in the comic book.
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Whether it was the seemingly unlikely possibility of Rick’s death or the knowledge that the television series adaptation of the comic so often toyed with viewers over their heroes’ fates, there really was no genuine tension between issues once the initial surprise subsided – at least not for this reader.
So ended issue 191 of the series, leaving readers with a dropped jaw and one helluva cliffhanger to be resolved. Rick Grimes, hero of Image’s long-running comic book epic The Walking Dead, looking down in shock at the bloody hole punched through his chest by a single bullet fired into him from an unlikely assassin who had disrupted his sleep, croaking out the question “What did you do?” as blood poured through his gritted teeth.
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