The Strolling Lifeless TV Present Beat The Comics To Its Ending
Warning! SPOILERS for forward The Strolling Lifeless #193.
The Strolling Lifeless #193 brings Robert Kirkman’s long-running zombie sequence to an finish, however its ending is one which The Strolling Lifeless TV sequence really did first. AMC’s The Strolling Lifeless has at all times drawn inspiration from the Picture Comics sequence, generally even straight adapting occasions from the comics for the display. This time, nonetheless, it really works the opposite means round, with the comics showing to attract inspiration from The Strolling Lifeless season 9.
The shock ending to The Strolling Lifeless comedian was solely introduced the day earlier than its launch, coming as a complete shock to each followers and retailers. Latest problems with The Strolling Lifeless had been constructing in the direction of a climactic flip of occasions, coming to a head in concern #192, however most nonetheless believed the sequence had many points but to go. Picture even launched covers and solicitations for upcoming points! Seems all that advertising was only a ruse, although, as The Strolling Lifeless #193 actually is the comedian e book’s finale.
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The Strolling Lifeless #193 is as an epilogue, leaping forward a few years as a way to reveal the fates of its characters and their post-apocalyptic world. Following the surprising and tragic loss of life of Rick Grimes, concern #193 picks up with an grownup Carl and his spouse, Sophia, elevating their daughter, Andrea, in an idyllic farm home. It has been years because the Trials – the official time period The Strolling Lifeless introduces for the zombie outbreak – and society, although nonetheless lagging behind technologically, has kind of returned to regular. The message of this closing concern is obvious: the world is now a safer place due to Rick. There’s even a statue devoted to him on the Commonwealth, commemorating the rousing speech he gave there the day he was killed. The ending to The Strolling Lifeless comics is, due to this fact, a hopeful one, however it’s additionally, unusually, the same ending to what the TV present did once they featured their very own shock time leap in season 9.
On the midpoint of The Strolling Lifeless season 9, the sequence jumps ahead in time following the “loss of life” of Rick. As a substitute of a pair a long time, although, it is solely about six years, however the result’s roughly the identical. Simply as with The Strolling Lifeless #193, this time leap focuses on exploring a safer, extra established society that has Rick to thank for being so. As a substitute of following Carl as an grownup, the AMC sequence as an alternative follows a younger Judith who’s now not a toddler however a baby of about 10 years previous. And whereas audiences know Rick is not really lifeless (and can even return in three Strolling Lifeless TV films), the characters do not know this they usually mourn his loss of life all the identical. The Strolling Lifeless season 9 went on to discover how the survivors would keep on with out Rick, honoring him and persevering with to try for the higher future he was making an attempt to construct.
The ending for The Strolling Lifeless comedian books and the season 9 time leap are in no way precisely the identical, however the similarities are there. In actual fact, in gentle of the The Strolling Lifeless comics’ ending, the aftermath of Rick’s “loss of life” and the following time leap on the TV sequence virtually come throughout like a gown rehearsal for the comedian e book’s epilogue. And whereas it is extremely unlikely that Kirkman and his staff bought the thought for his or her ending from the AMC sequence (certainly, this ending had been deliberate for years), The Strolling Lifeless TV present nonetheless (kind of) did it first.
The Strolling Lifeless season 10 returns to AMC this fall.