Like the TV series,
The Walking Dead comic book isn't quite as good as it once was, and the series' latest death is bound to lead to a lot of readers calling it quits! At the end of issue #191, Rick Grimes was shot by Sebastian Milton, the son of Governor Pamela Milton. He was looking for revenge on behalf of his mothe, but no one could quite believe that this was the end for Rick.
Well, in today's issue
#192, Sebastian proceeds to shoot Rick a further three times and kills him.
His zombified form then rises, only to be put down by Carl with a single shot to the head. Just like that, the beloved character's story is over and unlike his small screen counterpart, he went out with something of a whimper rather than the bang fans will have been hoping for.
In the comic's "Letter Hacks" section, creator and writer Robert Kirkman claims this has always been in the works, and say that he always wanted Sebastian to be the one to pull the trigger.
"For almost a decade now I knew Rick would choose to preserve the Commonwealth no matter the cost... and it would cost him his life," he said.
"I've said in interviews for many, many years, that everyone dies in this story, and that even Rick Grimes won't survive until the end," he continued. "While this was always Rick's story thus far, as written about in the first issue, that doesn't mean he needs to be alive to be a presence in the series. This is the story of a world, not a man."
How do you guys feel about Rick's story coming to an end in The Walking Dead #192?