The final destiny of Rick Grimes … – Deadline

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains the main revelations of issue 192 of The dead who walk, which is on sale this week.

Former lawmaker Rick Grimes was M.I.A. on AMC The dead who walk since last November (when star Andrew Lincoln left the Powerhouse series to focus on the next trilogy of feature-length films), but this is not the case in the original version of The dead who walk, the monthly Skybound / Image Comics series that will reach its 200th issue early next year.

Each issue of the Image Comics series, which makes history, was written by Robert Kirkman, the creator of The dead who walk the universe and its most beloved citizen, Rick Grimes. The legendary Kentucky jurist became the true hero of the brand, but Kirkman maintained throughout the year that he had never imagined that Grimes would survive. The dead who walk saga and its flavors.

Last month, The dead who walk No. 191 hit store shelves and sent fans in all its states. The issue described Grimes, now bearded and more severe (especially with one of the missing hands), delivering an exciting speech about maintaining hope (and keeping hope alive) before the problem arose. ends with a resentful young gunman who was shooting Grimes the name of a political vendetta.

This question ended with an exasperating cliffhanger question: was Grimes dead when he collapsed into his bloody bed or simply injured? The answer is in number 192, which will appear in the next 24 hours. We received a copy of the number in advance and it is a powerful and poignant example of Kirkman's gifts of evocative stimulation, dramatic staging and heartbreaking dialogue. The work of Charlie Adlard is perfect and imprinted with an emotion without useless pomp.

Attention, spoilers coming after the cover image.

AMC The dead who walk began as a fairly faithful adaptation of Kirkman's eponymous Image Comics series, but over time, the screen saga and its sources have been relegated to the background, becoming the imperative of a drama at the premium together and a monthly comic strip in black and white directions.

Rick Grimes's character remains in the air (literally, since he was last seen aboard a helicopter with cryptic origins), but in the comic saga, Grimes ends ( as feared so often) with the deadly wounds that he has suffered from a sneaky attack from a living and breathing assailant.

After surviving the terrible hardships and episodes of the most detailed zombie apocalypse of the horror screen history, Grimes was wearing a young child petulant to the heart beating. The shooter was Sebastian Milton, the son of Pamela Milton, the Commonwealth leader who had just been toppled successfully by Grimes.

(The heartbreaking assassination in a banal setting evokes the scenario of the last act of American sniper, which portrays Bradley Cooper as a hero on the battlefield who survives the war before being murdered on the home front by a disgruntled veteran.)

The tragedy does not end when Grimes bleeds. The next day, Carl, the deputy minister's one-eyed son, discovers the crime scene and finally begins to feel the heat of optimism that reigns in his life tirelessly. The horror goes further: Grimes the old has already gone into furious walk mode. Then the terrified Carl is forced to bid farewell to his father by shooting the cannibal corpse before he starts to gnaw at him.

Time will tell when and how the on-screen version of the Grimes family will come to its last moments, but it will be hard to overcome the horror and disturbing circumstances of the page by which Kirkman turned the page, saying goodbye at his most famous creation.