Michonne’s Origin Story

[jetblack927]

Okay, it’s been almost a week since the season finale of Walking Dead and that AWESOME introduction of “The Mysterious Sword wielding stranger who saved Andrea in the Forrest”.

A fan favorite in the comics, Michonne has been a bad-ass since Issue 19, and while there was a few things mentioned about her past before the outbreak, a full origin story hasn’t been revealed…until recently. Taken from the April issue of “Playboy” (of all things…), here’s a 6-page short story revealing how Michonne went from an attorney to zombie slicing warrior.











The Next 2 pages has her Boyfriend help close the door, but not before he gets bit, she wraps the wound and they talk while waiting till night falls when she starts to look to neighboring buildings to find food, medical supplies and weapons, she didn't find any guns, but a neighbor's son had a collections of swords, she sleeps in the house clutching one sword till the next morning, these pages was removed due to posting limits...

By the time she returns, she discovers her boyfriend turned...












 

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I've followed Walking Dead some, yeah. And no, they really don't plan well.

In the latest arc, for instance, they might have discouraged the horde by just grabbing a few zombies, doing what Michonne did and tying them up. During the arc, we see Glenn and that other guy hopping roofs and one time, sleeping on top of one instead of chopping one up, and using it for camo (and there are plenty of ways to do that without it touching your skin).

When it comes to dealing with zombies, tactical intelligence is low and if a trick gets used twice, it's a miracle.

[stolisomancer]

They really hated using the "chop up the zombies" trick before, so it's not hard to imagine that they wouldn't want to use them again unless they absolutely had to. Rooftops are easier than wearing an intestine garland.

The whole point of the "herd" is that it pretty much just moves unstoppably forward in a wave, so I can't imagine any amount of subterfuge would've worked.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

They needed supplies, IIRC and time was an issue. So yeah, slathering up would have been the smart thing to do.

Same with the Herd. Once inside, all they do is mill around unless they see a target. Since zombie guts make them invisible, slather up and start hacking away. Not like the zombies would notice.

So yeah, subterfuge could be useful. Hell, I'm hard pressed to think of an instance where being functionally invisible to your enemy isn't a great advantage.

Hell, all they really need is a ten pound weight, some rope and their guard tower. Draw the zombies in, drop the weight, rinse, repeat.

[darkknightjrk]

I think what he meant was the time problem--because of the sheer amount of the zombies, by the time they got the "intestinal garlands," as someone else put it, a three more zombies would be chomping on you.