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Doom_Art
07/04/19 11:49:54 PM
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It's the end.

Didn't see that coming at all.

I kinda really like it.
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MrToothHasYou
07/04/19 11:50:45 PM
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I was all kinds of mad about it at first, but it makes sense and I get it. Super disappointed that its over, still.
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_Squirtle_
07/04/19 11:51:04 PM
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That goddamn series is still alive?
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Doom_Art
07/04/19 11:51:30 PM
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_Squirtle_ posted...
That goddamn series is still alive?

No lol

This was the last issue
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No_U_L7
07/04/19 11:52:36 PM
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You didnt get spoiled that it was the last issue? Word leaked late mon. I couldn't avoid the spoiler
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07/04/19 11:53:30 PM
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Doom_Art
07/04/19 11:54:00 PM
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No_U_L7 posted...
You didnt get spoiled that it was the last issue? Word leaked late mon. I couldn't avoid the spoiler

Nope. I don't typically dive into the fan communities or anything, so I missed out on the news.
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No_U_L7
07/04/19 11:54:33 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
No_U_L7 posted...
You didnt get spoiled that it was the last issue? Word leaked late mon. I couldn't avoid the spoiler

Nope. I don't typically dive into the fan communities or anything, so I missed out on the news.


It was spoiled in a topic title on the TV cable board lol
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SomeLikeItHoth
07/04/19 11:56:22 PM
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M_Live posted...
How'd it end

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Doom_Art
07/04/19 11:58:35 PM
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M_Live posted...
How'd it end

Last issue Rick died

Big time jump like several decades into the future.

Carl is married to Sophia and has a young kid with her.

Society is rebuilt (I'd say based on what I saw it's like 19th/early 20th century level)

The country is putting itself back together (talk is made about the east and the "Western Alliance" being in the process of unifying)

Zombies are very rare and contained (there's reference to no recorded sightings in like 10 years)

Issue ends with Carl reading a story about Rick to his daughter
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:03:52 AM
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Most of the major characters get a "what's up" with them too

- Rick has statues built and a whole mythic aura around him
- Maggie is President of the Commonwealth
- Eugene works on the frontier setting up infrastructure and railroads
- Michonne is a judge on what I assume is the Commonwealth equivalent of the Supreme Court
- Carl is a runner? I think? He works outside the safe zones.
- Maggie and Glenn's son runs a traveling freak show where he shows off zombies
- Negan is... somewhere?
- Jesus and Aaron are both chilling out being cool
- Lauren or whatever is a mercenary and still bitter about Rick killing Dwight
- Lydia married Connor and while it's not clear what she does it's similar to what Carl does
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Orthopox12
07/05/19 12:04:16 AM
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Do you think he felt pressure to end it because of the show? I only read to issue 100 but you make it sound like it was a sudden end?
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apolloooo
07/05/19 12:06:46 AM
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how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?
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Orthopox12
07/05/19 12:08:23 AM
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apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

Good question maybe death head stabs are standard medical practice now?
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:09:18 AM
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Orthopox12 posted...
Do you think he felt pressure to end it because of the show? I only read to issue 100 but you make it sound like it was a sudden end?

Very sudden in that I didn't see it coming at all, but it fits and was a satisfying conclusion.

After the end of the issue, where they'd usually print fan mail in this issue it was just a whole section where Kirkman explains why he chose to end it how he did.

Basically he explains that he had had this particular ending in mind as something for him to work towards for several years now. Around issue 142 or something he said he remembers being shocked that that's where he was now and that he was moving way more quickly than he intended.

He tried a bunch of ways to tweak the story so it'd pad things out a bit but eventually he decided he was ready to end it and didn't want to stretch things out further than they needed to be.

I don't think the show played a part, since the two are so different now.
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:12:32 AM
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apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

While I really fucking like the ending, this is the one black spot against it. This doesn't really get elaborated on.
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MrToothHasYou
07/05/19 12:15:05 AM
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Orthopox12 posted...
Do you think he felt pressure to end it because of the show? I only read to issue 100 but you make it sound like it was a sudden end?

It makes perfect sense for them to end it at the time they did, and in the way they did. It felt sudden because they strongly indicated that the series was not over (even going so far as creating fake artwork for future issues) in order to surprise everyone.
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fusespliff
07/05/19 12:17:49 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

While I really fucking like the ending, this is the one black spot against it. This doesn't really get elaborated on.


Why does it need to be elaborated? It was established over 10 years ago that they either burn the bodies or destroy the brain.
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Axiom
07/05/19 12:18:58 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
Rick has statues built and a whole mythic aura around him

Rick's the jesus of walker world
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:20:34 AM
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fusespliff posted...
Why does it need to be elaborated? It was established over 10 years ago that they either burn the bodies or destroy the brain.

True I suppose that makes sense.

They do say in the issue that walkers don't really show up in the "wild" anymore so it's not like anyone is getting bit, and for other deaths, I guess they're just vigilant about jabbing folks who die in hospitals and stuff.
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:24:19 AM
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SerperiorThanU posted...
Isnt this kind of bad

He was more or less reformed after the Whisperer arc

He never joins the safe zone, but there's an understanding between them all and he mostly just stays out of everyone's way.

He's actually pretty cool
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fusespliff
07/05/19 12:24:52 AM
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SerperiorThanU posted...
Doom_Art posted...
- Negan is... somewhere?

Isnt this kind of bad


Nah, he completely came around to Rick's way of thinking. He realized that the awful shit he did was needed at the time, but that people like Rick were the ones able to restart civilization.
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apolloooo
07/05/19 12:26:53 AM
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fusespliff posted...
Doom_Art posted...
apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

While I really fucking like the ending, this is the one black spot against it. This doesn't really get elaborated on.


Why does it need to be elaborated? It was established over 10 years ago that they either burn the bodies or destroy the brain.

what about the billions of zombies roaming? how do they kill them all? i only watch the show and stopped 2 years ago
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:28:37 AM
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apolloooo posted...
what about the billions of zombies roaming? how do they kill them all? i only watch the show and stopped 2 years ago

The walkers degrade over time.

Slowly, but they get weaker and more rotted til they finally just crumble
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Freddie_Mercury
07/05/19 12:30:30 AM
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the issue itself is good but dude just got lazy and quit after like two years of setting up a civil war in the commonwealth
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apolloooo
07/05/19 12:31:59 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
apolloooo posted...
what about the billions of zombies roaming? how do they kill them all? i only watch the show and stopped 2 years ago

The walkers degrade over time.

Slowly, but they get weaker and more rotted til they finally just crumble

ah that makes sense because that what would happen too.

it's kinda like that in the show too because season 1 walkers compared to the later looks "better" as in less crumbly
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Strider102
07/05/19 12:32:24 AM
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Tbh I expect Kirkman to one day come out and say something like he did when asked how the walkers came about in the first place in regards to what happened in the time jump that made them a rarity.
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No_U_L7
07/05/19 12:32:48 AM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
the issue itself is good but dude just got lazy and quit after like two years of setting up a civil war in the commonwealth


He resolved that story. Rick instituted a free election. The end
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fusespliff
07/05/19 12:33:13 AM
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apolloooo posted...
fusespliff posted...
Doom_Art posted...
apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

While I really fucking like the ending, this is the one black spot against it. This doesn't really get elaborated on.


Why does it need to be elaborated? It was established over 10 years ago that they either burn the bodies or destroy the brain.

what about the billions of zombies roaming? how do they kill them all? i only watch the show and stopped 2 years ago


We never learn about anything outside of the US, so that's 300+ million tops.
They learn to safely herd giant herds of thousands to the ocean and such. They establish safe routes between communities and have people on horses patrol those areas. Small groups get taken out by the patrols. Large herds get spotted in time due to the patrols and are diverted to their end.
There are still zombies, but they've established safe zones large enough that teens and such have never actually seen one.
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 12:33:20 AM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
the issue itself is good but dude just got lazy and quit after like two years of setting up a civil war in the commonwealth

My worry going into the commonwealth arc was that it was so similar to the others arcs we've seen before, so I'm content with this little subversion of expectations
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darkzero297
07/05/19 12:33:52 AM
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apolloooo posted...
fusespliff posted...
Doom_Art posted...
apolloooo posted...
how did the zombie plague end? do dead people don't turn anymore or they just cremate everyone?

While I really fucking like the ending, this is the one black spot against it. This doesn't really get elaborated on.


Why does it need to be elaborated? It was established over 10 years ago that they either burn the bodies or destroy the brain.

what about the billions of zombies roaming? how do they kill them all? i only watch the show and stopped 2 years ago


It just isn't answered from what I have read about it. There are some thoughts to consider.

1. It has been widely circulated that the science behind what constitutes a zombie cannot continue existing for very long. The large hordes of wild zombies probably just died out from decomposition.

2. What remains of society was likely proficient enough at dealing with zombies and established clearly what sorts of precautions were needed to stay the threat of zombification.

Ultimately, it just doesn't appear to be explained explicitly. What caused the outbreak? How exactly was the threat definitively overcome? Not answered. Just a timeskip, and now everything is more or less under control.
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Gobstoppers12
07/05/19 12:38:10 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
Negan is... somewhere?

Hell yeah, all I needed to know. My man's the best.
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No_U_L7
07/05/19 12:48:14 AM
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fusespliff posted...
We never learn about anything outside of the US, so that's 300+ million tops.


in a canon 1 shot (by a different writer), we do see that the infection is rampant in asia. the issue is called the alien and stars rick's brother
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 7:07:21 AM
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bump
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CyricZ
07/05/19 7:13:58 AM
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I'll just say it. It would have been cute if there was a reference to Clementine.

She did live, after all

Yeah, I know. Game only character.
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ssj3vegeta_
07/05/19 7:36:08 AM
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I'd have thought he'd continue the story and make carl the main badass character for a few years lol, guess he just got sick of it.
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TheYellowOne462
07/05/19 7:36:48 AM
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Did they find the cure or something?
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 7:50:31 AM
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TheYellowOne462 posted...
Did they find the cure or something?

Nope. No cure. They didn't discover how the outbreak started either. They just ended up adjusting and moving on.
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apolloooo
07/05/19 8:21:31 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
TheYellowOne462 posted...
Did they find the cure or something?

Nope. No cure. They didn't discover how the outbreak started either. They just ended up adjusting and moving on.

i don't get how it started is a big deal. it is a zombie media, pretty much every scenario you can think of has been already made, so they just skipped that part.

i personally find the zombies just falling apart on their own is satisfying, because no way something like that is even sustainable. if it happens in real life, the zombies would decompose in less than a year or 2 max.
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fusespliff
07/05/19 8:28:39 AM
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ssj3vegeta_ posted...
I'd have thought he'd continue the story and make carl the main badass character for a few years lol, guess he just got sick of it.


Yeah, must be. It's not like he planned to end it this way over 5 years ago or something.
But hey, at least you dropped your shitty gimmick in order to post this stupidity.
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 8:34:50 AM
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apolloooo posted...
i don't get how it started is a big deal. it is a zombie media, pretty much every scenario you can think of has been already made, so they just skipped that part.

Yeah if there was a cure or something like that I'd have found it just silly.

And figuring out how the outbreak started, like you said, just wouldn't matter now. There's nothing they could come up with that would make me be like "Yeah this is a satisfying piece of background lore"
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CyricZ
07/05/19 9:12:15 AM
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Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.
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Doom_Art
07/05/19 9:13:41 AM
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CyricZ posted...
Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.

I have a good chunk of the hardcover collections for it that some friends got me for my bday a few years back and I never read them. I really should try it.
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fusespliff
07/05/19 9:14:19 AM
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CyricZ posted...
Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.


I seriously hope the show won't fuck it up
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CyricZ
07/05/19 9:14:26 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
CyricZ posted...
Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.

I have a good chunk of the hardcover collections for it that some friends got me for my bday a few years back and I never read them. I really should try it.

Oh God.

Dude.

DUDE.
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creativerealms
07/05/19 9:19:38 AM
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He probably did just get sick of it. I mean same thing happened with Invincible. I mean we had a bit more warning before it ended but it still just ended suddenly.
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fusespliff
07/05/19 9:20:27 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
CyricZ posted...
Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.

I have a good chunk of the hardcover collections for it that some friends got me for my bday a few years back and I never read them. I really should try it.


Get on that right now. It's easily a top 10 comic for most who've read it
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creativerealms
07/05/19 9:20:59 AM
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CyricZ posted...
Another reason why Y The Last Man is so awesome.

I am scared for the TV show because of today's politics I expect some people to hate it even if it's a perfect adaptation.
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