Walking Dead: Rick's Death Reveals the Meaning of His First Appearance
Warning! Minor gore and The Walking Dead spoilers!
The murder of The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes was no doubt one of the series' biggest tragedies. But his death shines a light on how crucial he was at bringing back a semblance of normalcy to the world.
Before waking up in the post-apocalyptic nightmare he would spend his final years, Rick Grimes was caught up in a shootout that put him into a coma. After coming out of it, Rick discovered the life he knew was over and the world was now inundated with ferocious, reanimated bodies called «walkers». While Rick was one of the last people to find out about the new status quo the world faced, he did become one of the most important figures in getting things back to a relative normal. Grimes and his allies fought and scraped against the darkness of humanity and were able to began the process of restarting civilization. Which makes Rick's ultimate fate all the more devastating.
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Grimes meets his maker in The Walking Dead #191 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie, Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, and Cliff Rathburn. A disgruntled member of the Commonwealth, Sebastian Milton, confronts Rick in his bedroom in the middle of the night and holds him at gunpoint. Sebastian reveals his contempt for Rick and the growing influence he's beginning to have in the Commonwealth, going so far as to replace Sebastian's mother, Pamela, as its new leader. Rick attempts to talk Sebastian down, but before he even knows what's hit him, Milton shoots Grimes in the chest several times before running off. Just as a gunshot brought Rick into the world of The Walking Dead, a couple of bullets take Rick out.
It's a dark symmetry in Rick's final
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