RICK THE WALKING DEAD COMICS TRIAL

The finale’s last scenes feature Carl reading a book to his daughter, recounting the story of Rick Grimes and all the trials he endured on his way toward restoring civilization. Michonne sides with Carl and clears him of any wrongdoing, allowing him to return to his family without any further consequences. Carl makes a passionate pitch about the need to not minimize the walker threat, even if the new, young generation of survivors hasn’t had to endure such terrors.

RICK THE WALKING DEAD COMICS TRIAL

He heads out on a long scavenging mission, and when he returns, he’s once again on trial - except this time, he stands before the highest court in the community, presided over by a famous face: Michonne, now known as Judge Hawthorne, the first time her last name has been revealed in the series. Like his father before him, Carl acts on his vision of justice and decides to destroy the rest of Hershel’s walkers. Carl finds himself on trial for killing the walker, which was technically Hershel’s property he’s spared from punishment thanks to Maggie, now president of the safe-zone, who is accused by Carl and others of babying Hershel to a dangerous degree. It’s all the more reason why Carl is furious when a walker roams onto his land, having escaped a traveling road show led by Hershel Rhee, the now adult son of Maggie and the late Glenn. They live on a farm far away from a highly functional version of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, where walkers have not been an active threat for years. Carl Grimes (very much not killed in the comics’ version of “All-Out War,” unlike his live-action counterpart) is a grown man with a wife (Sophia, very much not killed in the comics’ version of the Greene family farm storyline) and a daughter, fittingly named Andrea. Indeed, it features the biggest time jump in the series’ history, leaping forward decades into the future. The Walking Dead #193, released Wednesday, takes place several years after the events of the previous issue, in which Rick Grimes was assassinated.

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