Clementine possible to be put in the comic?
Additional spoiler warning: If you missed reading the past spoiler warning, I am going to spoil both the till season 2 episode 1 and potentially the comics till....well, the latest issue or close I guess.
(btw. for those who don't know, the game and the comic are in the same world. Not the tv show though. The tv show is sorta it's own slightly different canon)
Now you might all initially think what I am about to say to be incredibly stupid due to the title. Hell, I wouldn't blame you the least for having that initial thought.
And yes, it is like the topic title implies, do you think it possible for Robert Kirkman to draw/write Clementine into the stories of Rick Grimes and Carl Grimes in the walking dead comic?
Now obviously there are, or rather were the obvious problem of the fact that both main characters of clementine and are at different locations at the same time as depicted by the comic and the games. Making it impossible to use cross-characters on the opposite end unless it was a time undepicted by their origin media. (aka. Glenn,Hershel and Shawn were shown in season 1 episode 1 because it was a time not depicted by the comics, their origin)
However, a little something suddenly happened to the walking dead game. Gigantic time jump. Or rather, two of them actually. And right after each other. Pre-omid death time jump, and post-omid death time jump. Leaving Clementine(and co.) possible to be temporarily put in the comics provided telltale doesn't want to re-visit either one of or both time jumps.
Now time for some basic math. Season 1 Ep.1 happened less than a week into the apocalypse. And then a 3 month time jump to Ep.2. However that time jump can't be used though since at the time, rick and co. were either on their way to the prison. Or are already in the prison.(or whatever else, their whereabouts were depicted, and clem and lee were in the motor inn)
Ep.2 to Ep.5 is just a few days. And then Ep.5 to omid's death is perhaps a good 8 months time jump. meaning the interval of between 3 to 11 months into the appocalypse.(give or take) That time jump however can't be used though, as the comics had already shown that during the time, Rick and co. were either in the prison, or had already left it. Perhaps even made it to their new, and still current safe sanction/big community(or as safe as can be)
Omid's death to losing Christa however. Is not just a very big 16 months time jump. But also one undepicted by the comics yet. The time interval is perhaps between 11 to 27 months into the apocalypse. And with the comic current state being approximately 12 months(or so...) into the apocalypse. Assuming Robert Kirkman continues without time jumps. The comic is still very very far from reaching 27 months(or so...) into the apocalypse.
And with this 11-27 time-gap not only being left by the game(assuming telltale don't want to re-visit it), but also yet to be covered by the comics. Robert Kirkman might, just might be able to write clementine(and christa) into the same party as Rick and Carl.
Now I know there are several other stuff necessary for Robert to pull this off. Making sure with telltale he's using the characters correctly. Double checking with them on other stuff like how rick/carl and clem/christa can at some point be at the same place at the same time with it making canonical sense(and not looking like a half-cooked cross-over excuse) and that stuff.
But provided Robert and Telltale do, and are able to manage these things. Do you think it possible for him to write Clementine(and Christa) into his comic? And do you encourage it or discourage it?
Personally I don't "need" it to happen. Actually I don't think anyone "need"s it to happen. But personally I don't unwelcome it. Actually if it's pulled off nicely and with little to no complications or no nonsensical canonical clashes then I'd really like for it to happen.
But that's my biggest concern actually. That it get's pulled off poorly, I dunno...., and there's also the fact that telltale might make better use of revisiting the 11-27 time period(though I prefer if they use the 3-11 time period so we can have omid again), and-......you know what, I'll just shut up before I make more of an idiot of myself and I already have. Sorry the post is much longer than intended.
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No, Kirkman is a horrible writer. He would ruin Clementine.
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there are a couple of weeks between episode 2 and episode 3 actually in season 1, just so you know.
"he's bad at writing, instead of letting him practice more so he gets better we just won't allow him to write."
i havent read any walking dead comics BUT if he is not gonna tuin clem it would be awsome
Oh, thanks. Forgot to mention that one.
But yeah, that is also an impossible time-span to add clem and co. to the comics. Still thanks for mentioning it. Maybe adds a month into the numbers I wrote.
Kirkman has resisted people wanting Daryl to be in the comics for years now. From what I've gathered off the comic's letters pages, he likes to keep the comic unadulterated by TWD from other media. That's why the TV versions of the characters and storylines are at times vastly different than their comic counterparts; there's generally a wall between all the different versions of TWD. So I seriously doubt this will happen (and personally, I think that's a good thing).
The only possible way I could see him adding Clementine or any other character to the comics is when the videogame series are done with and there is no real reason to worry about cannon much, and Telltale may go on for several more seasons, so I wouldn't count on it.
Impossible , i don't really think they would add in Clementine because i believe the comic is far beyond ( in years ) then the game which is basically the past.
Well, we don't know how long the games will last, but I would assume a while.
No.
I actually really like the fact that the game and the comic are aside from a few cameos in the first episode of season 1 don't share anything but a setting. The tv show and comics focus so much on Rick that it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that he and his people are the center of the TWD universe, but the fact that the game has little to nothing to do with what's going on in the Comics makes the world feel more open.
Also I just like Telltale's The Walking Dead more than any version that Kirkman is a big part of so I'd prefer Clementine's story continues to be exclusively told by them.
No lets all keep the game comic and tv seperate from each other
What are you talking about? It's been over 2 years since the outbreak started in the comics. I think the game could be more or less synchronized with the timeline of the latest comic by now.
I don't think that Clem will ever be in Kirkman's comics. And that's good. To see what Carl has to go through is already enough. He's really giving that kid hell.
I think that might be more because the TV show is an adaptation of the comics' story rather than just adding onto the world like the game does.