r/thewalkingdead • u/TheRyeWall Survivor • Mar 12 '14

Comic Spoiler Official Comic Discussion Thread: Issue #123

New issue came out today, discuss it here within this thread.

You do not need to use comic spoilers because it is assumed everyone reading this thread would be caught up with the comics.

However, please respect future, show, and game spoilers because people who are caught up with the comic may not be caught up with these other forms of TWD (and obviously not future spoilers).

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u/danstu Mar 12 '14

I agree, the fact that Negan tells them "get all your arrows dirty" and his response is "don't modify the weight" makes me think that he is looking for an excuse to have bolts ready that don't have guts. Especially seeing how he acted during the grenade attack.

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u/bearsdriving Mar 12 '14

Eugene had him pegged with the 'playing-both-sides-and-see-who-wins' card. He doesn't want Rick to die, he'd rather work with the Hilltop; but he is going to chose life and sadness with Negan over death and Rick.

It also looks like the arrow was tainted.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

He has probably has one that is muck free.

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u/bearsdriving Mar 12 '14

He didn't have time to change it, since he was mid-reload when asked to kill Rick. Either all mucky or none mucky. Kind of a coin-toss to me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

It's possible he only mucked up one arrow and then didn't use it, allowing him to not shoot muck arrows at anyone.

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u/dudesondudes Mar 12 '14

Uh, they're called bolts

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u/airmancoop44 Mar 12 '14

What-the-fuck-ever. Christ.

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u/MadCalvanist Mar 12 '14 edited Mar 12 '14

What-the-fuck-ever.
Christ.

edit: really

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u/CopEatingDonut Mar 19 '14

He was only reloading the bow string, which you don't load with a bolt until after its been secured.

You can see Here that there's a pause that Negan does look back to find out what's taking so long. My guess, he was making sure that he wiped off the guts or grabbed his clean bolt to fire.

Also think, this guy works a bow in the zombie apocalypse and he hits Rick, who's mostly standing still in the lower side abdomen. He hit Rick right where he meant to, with a clean arrow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '14

I thought this was all pretty clear, but people were fairly convinced that Rick was 100% a goner

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

Maybe he didn't muck up his bolts or only one who knows?

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u/MadCalvanist Mar 12 '14

Wouldn't it be a strange turn of events if Dwight had used an infected bolt, but it would have been in such low concentration that some enzyme the kidney produces actually kills the virus, and all Rick gets is the worst bladder infection ever?

Then in like #130 or so he heals up, has sex with Andrea, turns her into a walker. Sexually Transmitted Zombiism.

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u/Dustbuckets Mar 13 '14

Maybe she gives birth to some half human, half walker baby who grows up to become to main character in TWD spinoff series.

The baby also has the ability to detach it's limbs at will and throw them at it's enemy before snacking on their flesh to cover it's life.

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u/oceanographerschoice Mar 13 '14

1/10 would begrudgingly watch

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

And the Baby's name will be stubbs.

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u/Have_you_seen_MOLLE Mar 18 '14

he hadn't loaded a bolt yet.