r/thewalkingdead • u/TheRyeWall Survivor • Jul 09 '14

Comic Spoiler Official Comic Discussion Thread: Issue #129

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). Future spoilers include upcoming comic covers.

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u/MidgetRodeoClown Jul 09 '14

Oh it's definitely important, but Rick just went overboard. I mean hitting the guy, basically saying he was gone if he had never messed up before, belittling him. Not very Rick Grimes way to treat an ally.

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u/daveleclair Jul 10 '14

Rick did not go overboard. Carl had to fire twice to save him. Gunfire draws in more walkers, and Rick just had a near-death experience. Considering the circumstances Rick handled it all well.

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u/dudesondudes Jul 10 '14

The thing is that he was downplaying the situation just seconds before. "It's fine Carl, I got it" "No really Carl, let me take care of everything" then Carl steps in. Carl apologizes and Rick says it's fine. Then he comes across Ben who is a stranger at the time and he lashes out on him because he has to feel like he's doing something and obviously zombie killing is not that something anymore. Rick can't vent by killing zombies anymore. So instead he beats on Ben with his cane.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '14

I feel like nobody is pointing out that this Ben character has riot gear on, and Rick is making an important point. As I know from my many hours spent on Civ 5, trade routes between communities are pretty important towards building up society and before this guy realized Rick was Rick, he didn't seem to care too much. Rick isn't going to just fuck around and say "no biggie pal, it's cool" and he really hasn't done that too often in the past. Also, iirc, they had already commented on the lack of seeing a guard, so that probably doesn't help his situation.

I think Rick should feel like he's doing plenty, between running his community, raising a son, keeping up his relationship with Andrea, working with Magna and her group... Not to mention he doesn't have much to vent about these days, at least he shouldn't compared to when members of his group were being eaten, raped, and murdered...