This actually sounds like a great change of pace for TWD. Defo gonna read it soon.
Thanks Honda

 

No prollem.

Yeah, I liked all out war and all the action, but this is awesome, too. Not as much action, but there's tension and suspense and it feels like it's building towards something awesome.

 

The way all this suspense is building I have a feeling TWD crew is going to give us a very devistating outcome. It makes me nervous thinking about it

 

Agreed. I think something big is going to happen. But I can't put my finger on what. Obviously carl is safe. And I think it's still too early for Rick to die. But just about everyone else is in play.

One thing I was thinking about is, when Lydia mentioned that "this place won't last." That would be a surprise-- have these fortresses fail and our survivors have to go back out on the road again. I do seem to remember a long time ago Kirkman said in a letter hacks something to the effect of their journey won't end in DC. Could it be that their homes will be the next thing taken away from them?

 

I think you can rest easy. This is Rick and Carl's story. Carl isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Carl may be the one character who is actually even safer than Rick. Kirkman has stated that he wants TWD to go on for at least 300 issues. He's definitely not going to kill off Carl less than half way through the series. If Carl ever dies, it will happen as part of the climax or denouement. It will happen in the final issues of the comic. Your boy is as safe from getting eaten as limburger cheese pie.

 

I think sometimes the characters with the most ability are at even greater risk of death. Because their deaths are the most powerful. Like Jesus. He seems somewhat invincible, which is the perfect recipe for a memorable death. He could be our next Glenn, mayhap? Issue 200? Same idea with Michonne. Her death would be weighty, which makes it ultimately desirable to the storytelling eventually. I don't think Andrea will survive the series, I think she will die at some point to further evolve Rick. I think the 'we don't die' mantra has been quite foreboding. But that could work against Rick as well, towards the end.

If we go to 300 issues and beyond, my guess is that we will have a couple more time jumps at least, so we may need a younger generation to surround Carl. Perhaps Sophia and Josh and Anna and Lydia so on will be needed for that. Maybe they are some of the safest for the long term. Hell, maybe this is one of the ultimate reasons for Lydia's reveal as such a young girl. Because she's to become part of the younger cast, filling in the holes in our hearts from those long passed...

 

Another thing to consider is that people aren't always forced from their homes. Sometimes they leave voluntarily, for a chance at something even better. Conceivably, all [or part] of our group may leave ASZ willingly. Maybe this whole Ocean/Chesapeake Bay hinting is even the start of that.

 

i think/hope Andrea outlives Rick. or, as cheesy as it sounds, they die together (obviously not Chris and Julie style). i still think we should have atleast one person die from old age, disease or some natural causes. asthma attack, allergy, something unrelated to the ZA

 

I agree. I said this somewhere before, we haven't dealt much with everyday unexpected natural occurrences that should be cropping up in a ZA. Diabetes, seizures, strokes, heart attacks, different kinds of mental illness [of course we've had people suicidal, and such, but no schizophrenia, bipolar with mania, etc, things that would be relatively common in the population. The younger generation in the late teens, 20's etc, would be expected to have a certain percentage of things like new onset schizophrenia].

As well as natural disasters. A nice category 5 hurricane could be interesting.

I can't think of too many people who have died from anything unrelated to walkers or attacks from other survivors. Scott, who fell from a building while on a run was one of them.

 

yea i feel like it would ad a touch of realism to the story. it seems pretty odd the TWD story has been goin for over a decade and its apparently never crossed RKs mind to put in some natural disaster, disease, mental or physical condition

weve had the old man with a oxygen tank but thats it.
we had Lizzie/Ben and their obvious mental issues but thats it. (you could argue Shane and the Gov but that was brought on by the ZA)

i think a deaf or blind character would be pretty cool. see how they make up for their missing sense in the ZA

 

I went to the comic book store during my planning period and they were f*cking closed. :|

 

I really enjoyed this issue. The Carl and Lydia connection did it for me. Love young love!

 

I'm curious to see if at some point, anyone will try to take over any sort of existing infrastructure like a hydro dam or anything like that and get it up and running.

 

Not in the comics, but in the TV show, David Chambler died from Lung Cancer, Michael Coleman died from Prostate Cancer, and Dying Man from Slabtown (not Gavin), had a heart attack and suffered from dehydration. It really doesn't happen enough though. Like, not even someone getting cut and their wound getting infected really happens. From the TV Show, that just happened to T-Dog and he survived, and it's only really happened to Scott in the Comics.

A Hurricane would be great. Virginia experiences pretty big ones from time to time (Isabel, Irene, Sandy).

 

Thanks. xD That reassures me a ton.

Ohh, to add to more recent discussions, I believe that Lily will survive the last time we end up seeing her. (Probably novel.) Same with Clementine. So those two are not in the comic explicitly, per say, they are in the same universe.

Also in the first novel released, Road to Woodbury I think, we see April's and Tara's dad die by some natural causes.