People claim Negan and the Governor are different, but they are very much alike. We've seen this type of character before, his brutality and indifference to other people's deaths, but a penchant for women and insight/empathy into survival. Its getting boring. In the comic the Governor tortures people, and even turns survivors into walkers for his own amusement, but at the end of the day much of Negan's antics can be summed up to amount to the same type of emotional distress for others and pleasure for himself.

My main concern is that I hope the television show doesnt follow the comic's storyline allowing Negan to survive and actually having Rick eventually going to Negan for help.

On the television show they should kill Negan off, not to mention Henry Dean Morgan just doesnt seem to "fit" into this series. I love Morgan as an actor, love him in Horror films, but dont think he or his character fit into the walking dead as a television series.

During the comic run, the persistent presence of Negan in the comic is eventually what led to my failing interest in the comic. After a while the story arcs with Negan bored me and I lost motivation to buy and read them. I thought the character was uninspired and annoying, pretty much a cliche staple character present in any post apocalyptic universe.

I'm afraid if in the tv show they keep Negan alive and have Rick's group cooperating with him and even sparing his life, it may start turning fans off to the show as well. I know it might cause me to lose interest.

 

After thinking about it I can't disagree with anything you've said specifically, and you have changed my mind a bit.

To be honest I'm sure a part of "my problem" does stem from wanting to see Rick + Company get revenge for the lucille beating. The death on tv to lucille is harder to stomach than it was in the comic for sure.

Although, what you say in the end about Negan's character being hard to portay on TV is something else I realize was also in the back of my head. Negan in the comics could never
be the Negan on the TV show which does suck. Negan's simple minded sense of humor was refreshing at times, as well as the profanity he spewed.. all of which would be hard to transpose onto the TV show.

I just honestly dont know if I could stomach Negan living and becoming part of Rick's crew and rebuilt alexandria

as far as JDM playing Negan, I agree I should wait a bit before passing judgement, although from the comic I pictured a shorter but broader and stronger dude. Tougher, someone like say a young Henry Rollins (impossible I know) Jason statham, Gerard Butler, something like an american version of Tom Hardy if there is such an actor out there..

JDM in possession, the resident, and those films didnt seem to add up to a survivor type in TWD.