In each look back, we examine a comic book number from 25/01/50 (plus a joker each month with a fifth week). This time, we head around June 2015 for a glance at an unusual number of The Walking Dead.
By the way, while we move away from the traditional “golden age” of the comics 75 years ago (as we are now well in 1950), I decided to mix things with the look back. Instead of a regular entry “75 years ago”, I will rotate the fourth entry between 10, 25 and 50 years old, whatever the year that has the most interesting options (because it’s really a shame to pass, let’s say, Morrison’s latest issue and Porter’s Porter’s Jla To highlight the first issue of Bendis and Omeing PowersWhat I had to do earlier this year). If I have a very good hook for a 75th anniversary in a given month, I will always do it, but, well, go, as you have seen from a few recent entries, the choices are quite thin for notable entries for a few months 75 years ago (like the “Robin and Superman both became gold in the same month” last month) last June).
One of the things that Robert Kirkman wanted to do with The Walking Dead must have had it so that readers could not say what was going to happen next, because it was a book where a major character could really die at any time. Kirkman was intentionally ruthless with the casting, killing the favorite of Glenn fans in The Walking Dead # 100, and finally kill most of the main characters, including, of course, Rick Grimes, in the last story of the series. Kirkman even noted, When you discuss Glenn’s death (When The Walking Dead Deluxe Reached # 100) Last year, that he had “a solid plan to constantly make the reader think that the characters were goners”, but he felt that he did too much Glenn’s death, and as he notes, “it could have been much better if I saw these moments.”
As a rule, Kirkman generally gave the characters’ death a place to breathe. The problem with the most important deaths of the character was The Walking Dead # 48, but it was a clearly cut “battle” problem, so it was logical that several people would die, and even there, Kirkman noted that it was not his original intention, because he planned to kill Lori and Judith Grimes earlier, but changed the plot as he had gone, which, as he noted, “he was not at the origin of the plan.” Now, a problem where the plan was for many characters to die at the same time was in July 2015 The Walking Dead # 115, by Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, Cliff Rathburn and Rus Wooton, which was a shocking turn of events.
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What was the configuration of the shocking torsion in The Walking Dead # 144?
In The Walking Dead # 132, two members of the colony of the hill summit (one of the main colonies of humans that we had followed The Walking Dead at the time. The other was Alexandria) are sent to find a disappeared member of the colony, and they are apparently attacked by “Walkers” (the term comics for zombies) with knives !!! Of course, it is then that they discover that what they think is walkers are in fact people who wear the skin of walkers and live mainly among walkers. This group is called The Whisperers, and their leader is called Alpha. Well, Alpha’s daughter, Lydia, is taken prisoner after other whispers attack other residents of the hill.
The son of Lydia and Rick Grimes, Carl, quickly develop a strong friendship. Alpha wants her daughter to come back, of course, and she works a job with Maggie (the residents she took in captivity for her daughter). Carl, however, follows them to their camp. Alpha then infiltrates Alexandria (without her zombie combination), and ends up taking Rick to the camp, and it is there that she reveals that she has a massive herd of walkers that she can trigger on Alexandria and Hilltop if she chooses it, then she says to Rick to leave and the whisperers alone …
However, after learning that Whisperer “Society” implies that Lydia is raped several times, Rick is indignant. Alpha decides to let Lydia go with Rick and Carl, while pretending to “punish” his daughter …
Okay, things seem to resolve well, but …
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What was the shocking border created in The Walking Dead # 144?
As they leave, Alpha tells Rick that she created a border that she does not want to cross the people of Rick (or the settlers of the hill).
We are then amazed to see that the border is marked by the innocent leaders, including twelve members of the series of the series!
The characters are mostly minor, but there are some notables, including Rosita, which had existed for almost 60 issues at that time, and, of course, the Great was Ezekiel, head of the community known as the Kingdom, which was a major character in the book at the time …
Adlard and Gaudiano draw the hell of this sequence, and Kirkman intelligently has the revelation of each deceased person marked with a scene at the home of this character where people wonder where they are.
The twelve members of the distribution are Olivia, Josh, Carson, Tammy, Luke, Erin, Ken, Amber, Larry, Oscar, Rosita and Ezekiel.
Walking Dead’s “omnibus” were divided into 48 groups of problems, so it marked the end of the third omnibus, and what a fine it was! Naturally, it was not the end of the whole conflagration of the whispers, but it is a story for another day …
If you have suggestions for August (or any other later month) 2015, 2000, 1975 and 1950 for me to walk, send me a line at branc@cbr.com! Here is the guide, however, for the coverage of the books so that you can make books of books that really came out in the right month. In general, the traditional time between the coverage date and the release date of a comic strip through the history of the comic strip was two months (it was three months, but not during the moments when we discuss here). The comics will therefore have a coverage date which is two months ahead of the real release date (therefore October for a book released in August). Obviously, it is easier to say when a book of 10 years ago was published because there was an internet coverage of books at the time.