The Walking Dead cover 104...do Carl will be in charge?!

[medster_comics]

This cover is awsome and its make me wondering a lot of thing. The last cover I was thinking of a plan for Rick to kill Nigan, he can send Michonne or Andrea to assassinate Nigan (it's my only idea for now). But when I saw the new cover the first thing I said was: Do Carl is gonna be in charge of Rick's group!? And that lead me to a another thing: Do Carl gonna kill Nigan (we never know)!?

Take a look at mini-Rick!Respect the new (maybe) leader...Carl Grimes!



This cover make me think about Carl in the first TPB,when he was scared, when he couldn't kill a walker alone and when he couldn't shoot. In that cover I realized that Carl is the only child in world who's growing up very fast.

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[shadowpsykie]

I realized that Carl is the only child in world who's growing up very fast.

actually. i think all the kid survivors are growing up really fast... we only see one group of survivors... there could be many others...

[medster_comics]

I actually forgot to say "for me". But yeah you'e right, he's not the only kid in a survivor group who's growing fast, we never know if we'll find a new survivor group with a kid like Carl.

[wonderwomanhero]

Andrea's my favorite character...god I hope she doesn't die.

[medster_comics]

I imagine Rick's reaction if she does die...

[selke]

I'm a bit behind. What happened to his eye?

Also, how can he be so cool in the books and I just want him to be zombie chow in the show?

[sherkahn]

He got shot in the face.

Because in the books he's developed MUCH more and become a stronger character.

[theflames]

With a strong side of crazy. Which he's confusing for pragmatic.

[shadowpsykie]

they shot a kid in the face? a kid thinks he's being pragmatic?

[theflames]

No, he killed a child, because 'he had to do it' -- (the irony and hypocricy was obviously lost on the child, understandably), he's been ready to pull a gun on people who argue with his dad etc...

[theflames]

It's pretty telling that when he got shot in the face, some of the fandom, felt he had *some* of it coming, since he was getting way to kill happy. In the same way his mother was becoming way too dependant/manipulative in the TV show.

The world's gone crazy, sure, but he's pretty dangerous. Oh, and I haven't caught up yet, so he could be better.

[shadowpsykie]

why did he have to do it?

[theflames]

Well... here's where it gets 'grey' -- the child he killed, killed his own twin brother.

BUT.

The twins were very young, both parents died at the hands of zombies in front of them, and they saw them come back as zombies. Later on in the story, it's revealed that one of twins is understanding this zombie crisis as death no longer being a danger, since you come back, down the line, he kills his brother, thinking he'd come back normal.

Alot of that could've been averted if someone *really* helped them through their tragedies, and even after killing his brother, the gang decided to lock him in the van and fear him, rather than make him see that what he did was just wrong. They debate killing him, the adults, they debate killing him. Decide to make the decision later.

Over night, Carl comes into the van and kills him. Though no one knows Carl did it because Rick is keeping it straight under wraps.

[shadowpsykie]

.... WOW....

[sianmink]

okay right I'm a gungeek but come on. It's like the artist recognizes the general shape of an AR15/M16 but doesn't understand a blamed thing about its size, proportions or operation. Also you'd think someone would get around to teaching Carl Rule #1by now.

[jeyl]

I don't like children as leaders.

[ghosty732]

"If a baby were president, there would be no taxes, there would be no war. There would be no government and... things could get terrible. And actually probably it would be a better screenplay idea than a serious suggestion."

[rainspirit]

Wow, I never caught that part. I just figured that the twin had just turned into a serial killer overnight. (Hadn't really thought it through.)

I should re-read it.

[rainspirit]

Rule #1 is don't put your finger in the trigger unless you're intending to shoot something?

We can't exactly see what Carl is glaring at. He might be staring down a group of zombies. Or unarmed humans.

Can't speak for the gun proportions, though. To be fair, how many drawings of children holding modern day assault rifles can you find on google image search?

[blackruzsa]

I don't like gun-toting children as leaders.
Teenagers... well it depends on the character. It's good to have a young leader but they have to have a level head, and from what I'm reading, it doesn't seem like Carl's running on all cylinders.

Plus I still remember the big chunk of brain that got shot out of his head that got magically fixed into a graze.

[eyz]

Yeah, I hate whiney-Carl on the show, who barely gets to do anything or get any real exposure. He follows basically the same developed as his comic counterpart had it been written on post-its....

[theflames]

Yeah, at first when I saw the shock of the page, I assumed he'd just gone mad, though I re-read some volumes and they hinted on his mental stability throughout here and there, he seriously thought he did nothing wrong and thought he'd come back :|

It's a great comic, I must say.

[cyberghostface]

Just to clarify (as there seems to be some confusion, although it's kind of funny that there are to separate incidents in TWD with a kid getting shot in the face):

Basically there was a zombie attack in the "village" that Rick and co. were living in and someone else was basically shooting off bullets left and right and one of them struck Carl in the face.

Carl shooting the twin (who had killed his own brother) was an unrelated incident.