This, I believe, is exactly where the story is headed, or at least should be headed.

The reset button has been hit on the world, they have to start over and we need only to look at how the history of civilization played out to see where this story is headed.

The idea above sounds a lot like a serfdom (very high level) in Old Great Britain where there is a King that collects "tax" from all of the people living in his/her kingdom in exchange for protection...in this case, it is protection from the walking dead, soon it will be protection from another kingdom/community/settlement/group of survivors.....all out war will follow -

 

ya know... Jesus DID mention he'd been gone for weeks (when asked how many they were, he said 200, maybe more now since there was a pregnancy...)

Perhaps in those weeks, leadership was changed... Maybe Jesus might just turn out to be a good guy after all (I'M HOPING OK?! Gawd...)

 

BTW they've travelled from Atlanta to D.C. ... you would think along the way they would have stopped at one of the dozens if not hundreds of army bases to grab some gear (and like 20,000 land mines to protect the safe zone)

That would be MY idea: land mines all around the safe zone with clear markings (zombies can't read...) telling the living to "stay behind this line and wave at us to let you in" or something like that. Not saying "walk on this line" because you never know what kind of living are out there... duh.

 

Rick's line of "What?" at the end was totally epic!

 

I really like the mine field idea. Like you said, Walkers can't read. So put up signs in different languages and pictures etc marking their locations. But I would do this a mile outside of the colonies.

 

Of course, that is why you place your mine field s couple miles outside of your peremeter and make it 1000 yards deep or more. As an added precaution, you could rig up something to attract the surviving walkers. Set up some kind of alarm sound off to the distance when ever the dust settles from the mines.

 

Minefields are best for area denial, not for killing enemy troops, and Zs don't give a crap that their buddy's foot as just been blown off by an anti-personnel mine. They might be useful as an early warning system against Zs (like you said, set mines a mile out and then if you hear explosions rally the troops) but then you're still creating a larger herd for yourself. And why bother with that when you can just have a few snipers in a tower? Or, if you're really good training your troops, observation posts/pickets?

And they're hard to replace, and the best ways of dispersing them involve an airforce, and so on.

 

Oh well, I still like the idea of Land Mines..it apeals to my inner destructive child lol

 

Lol Yeah...crippling a zombie for life unfortunately isn't too effective (its almost a bad thing because they would be harder to spot/finish)

 

Hey, it slows them down a bit.

 

I enjoyed #95, though I can kind of sense the direction they're going with it. (spoiler tags just in case)

As for where the comic's headed, we can only guess but...

 

Because that idea hasn't been touched before.

Let us see where this goes. In Kirkman we trust.

Psychopaths. Check.
Cannibals. Check.
Bandits. Check.
Murderers. Check.

I like where this may be going.

 

That's pretty interesting, marsyao, to some degree that explains how the rest of the community just kind of stood around and watched Gregory murdered with Rick being the only one to try and step in.

 

it just sucks so bad that these issues are becoming so far apart. i mean at least we don't have to wait months like the show but as you may have noticed, i'm a bit of a fiend, and i know i'm not the only one around here.

 

oh yeah... and for any of you who liked the first TWD book, they're supposed to be coming out with a new one soon about Lilly

how awesome would it be if she were a part of one of the new communities they're sure to meet?