Rick Grimes is the former protagonist of Image Comics' The Walking Dead who was first appeared in the first issue of the series. Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. Comic Rick, you will be missed.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I respect Kirkman’s desire to script Rick’s ending how he wants, and I can see in some ways why this kind of odd ending might actually be fitting, despite how frustrating it may initially seem. But is it wrong? Does it not work? I don’t know about that. So yes, Rick’s death in this fashion is frustrating. Kirkman says Rick leaving the show had nothing to do with the timing of his death in the comic, as this was an arc he'd been planning for a long, long time. I doubt we're going to see Daryl get shot in his bed during a Commonwealth storyline in a few years, so this may just end up being a comic-only development. Rick is gone, and only returning in spin-off movies that have to do with a group that presumably has nothing to do with the comic. It's not clear what effect this will have on the show, if any.
That remains the show’s most unforgiveable mistake by far. Daryl is doing fine in the Angela Kang era, and yet Carl taking up Rick’s mantle is clearly always how this was meant to go, and it’s a damn shame we’ll never get to see that onscreen. The show stupidly killed off Carl, and now that Rick is gone, the lead part shifts sideways to Daryl instead. Now we get to the see the comic do what the show will never have a chance to do, pass the reins to Carl, who has been building up to being a leader for years now. If you wrote a million predictive scenarios about how Rick Grimes would finally meet his end in The Walking Dead you would have never guessed this one, and Kirkman is subverting all expectations here in a big way. I mean, he survived that to go off to start in his spin-off movies, but even if he hadn’t, that seemed like a more “worthy” death for such an iconic character.īut again, that’s kind of the point. It’s the polar opposite of Rick’s send-off on the show where he sacrifices himself saving his community from a huge horde after being skewered. There is something inescapably maddening about seeing him killed off in his bed, without a fight, by a character who isn’t even evil, just.unimportant.
On the other hand, this is Rick Grimes we’re talking about here. A kind of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford situation. But instead making some sniveling nobody shoot him while he slept is really the only way anyone could actually best him. The idea, perhaps, is that putting Rick in a straight fight with a Governor or a Negan or an Alpha supervillain and having them win in open combat kind of destroys his mythology.
Robert Kirkman has been talking about it for years and has scripted this well in advance. On the one hand, Rick’s death was inevitable. There are two sides to how all this went down.
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