The Walking Dead
Spoilers for The walk utter tv series and funnies below!This calendar month , The Walking Deadtelevision series came to an end , but the series finale at long last unveil the biggest mistake the live - natural action adaptation of the comic book ever made : killingCarl Grimes . Whilethe TV series conclude with Rick Grimes livingas the character will asterisk in his own spinoff serial , the original Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard comic book had a much more impactful ending in a story centered around Carl .
The Walking Deadcomic book is one of the most successful cartoon strip of all sentence , as the Robert Kirkman , Tony Moore , and Charlie Adlard series run for 193 issues from 2003 to 2019 . The Skybound / Image Comics series , telling the fib of a group of subsister during the zombi Book of Revelation , have deal of twists and turn , with no character dependable from being killed . However , one character who survive the entire series , Carl Grimes , did n’t make it to the terminal of the live - actionadaptation , and his destruction represents the biggest mistakeThe walk Dead show ever made - as straying from the strip was a costly narrative mistake .
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After a 10 + year test , the live - actionThe Walking Deadseries late conclude , with Rick Grimes and Michonne being among the survivors . With several characters come spinoffs set inThe Walking Deaduniverse , the finale finally felt less like an overall conclusion and more like a set - up for what is coming next . One of the major reasons why the show ’s finis did n’t hit as hard as the cartoon strip was the destiny of Carl Grimes . WhileCarl was killed - off in season eight ofThe Walking Dead , his fate in the comic proved to be gross terminate for the series .
Carl Grimes' Ending In The Walking Dead On A Surprisingly Positive Note
InThe take the air all in comics , the last exit flashforwards to the time to come , where Carl Grimes is uncover to have taken on the theatrical role of drawing card that his Father of the Church previously had before his death . Carl marries Sophia and has a daughter named Andrea , named after his stepmother . The closing curtain not only shows the future ofThe Walking Deadcharacters , but evince the man Carl has become . In the show , with Carl dying as a stripling , viewers were robbed of his portion in the comics , as killing the character seemed like a Brobdingnagian miss opportunity to keep his story go .
In the end , The Walking Dead’sbiggest mistake was killing Carl Grimesand diverge from the comic book ’s original end . Instead of have a definitive ending where the future of the survivors is revealed , the TV show opt to totally cut Carl ’s floor short , while not offering a sufficient end point for longtime viewers . KeepingCarl Grimesalive inThe walk Deadwould have allowed the serial publication to germinate , while go past the proverbial torch from Rick to him ; but by pour down him off , the show never bring forth a opportunity to reach its upright conclusion .
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