Telltale has "ruined" The Walking Dead for me. [comic spoilers]
Clem_is_awesome
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Seriously, every time i finish watching an episode of the show or finish reading an issue of the comic i say to myself "holy crap, Telltale truly is a million years ahead of both AMC and Kirkman himself, I can't believe they keep publishing this trash".
I'm making this thread because I just finished reading issue 126 of the comic and the ending of Negan's story arc has got to be the most stupid and disappointing thing i've read in the past few years.
Telltale is the best.
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What happened to Negan? I dont read the comics but i know what is currently happening.
He goes to jail.
and no, i'm not kidding.
After everything he has done he goes to jail!
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I just got updated on it.. So Rick wins and they are going to take Negan with him as prisoner?? Is that the end of the whole comics or what?
anywhere I can read Issue 126? I can't find anything.
Possibly the end of Rick's story since it looks like issue 127 will take a time skip and have a new female protagonist. Probably shows some of this whole "civilization rebuilding" after some years.
"In the aftermath of ALL OUT WAR we discover… A NEW BEGINNING."
"After all this time, she should be more prepared."
"Even now, they still find new ways to dispose of the dead."
The thing is, Kirkman's been doing the comic for 10 years and he's also working on several other projects at the same time (comics, novels, CEO of Image, COO of Skybound etc.) so it's normal some of it would suffer in quality.
ok well that sounds like a crap send off for Rick, hopefully the TV show can do something better.
On another note, I wonder if this means Telltale will be able to cover more time with any future seasons.
What happened to Rick saying he'll get revenge on Negan. I now don't like comic Rick.
Hopefully yes, just watching Clem grow through a couple more seasons would make me the happiest person alive!
Still haven't read the latest issue, but I get what you mean. Kirkman has a habit of leading us on and then having the reveal be nothing special.
Yup, nothing surprising. I'm seriously considering dropping TWD as a comic and just keeping the older trades. They were good.
After this season I dropped the vision of TWD. Trash, trash, trash.
Me too; I know some people hate time skips but it'd be cool to keep seeing her grow up.
Couldn't agree more @Clem_is_awesome. Thanks to Telltale Games, first time I loved the based on work rather than the original.
.. but Negan got his throat slit.
I'm not much of a comic book reader as I am a gamer [admittedly I do own a couple, and I did love reading the Sonic comics when I was growing up] but I've never gotten tempted into buying The Walking Dead comics, despite all the times I've picked them up in stores and flipped through the pages. It's just never really been something I was interested in.
I really loved the first season of the tv series though, I thought that was really well done. But season 2 just ruined it for me when they stayed at that farm the WHOLE season and it drove me insane. Sad to say I didn't catch all of the episodes for season 3, but any time I saw Andrea being blind to the things about the Governor until it was too late I thought was too naive of her, and by then the plot was losing interest for me [but again I haven't seen all the episodes.]
Season 4 feels like it finally got its shit together, and took me back to what I enjoyed about the first season. I loved those episodes on Governer that part of me was voting for him to turn over a new leaf and not be a dick. Also I'm starting to really like Rick's character again and the development all the cast are getting too [the bit with Carl thinking he could survive without his dad and realizing he was wrong was really well done, and omg, the crazy sister with the zombie obsession, that episode broke my heart]. Although ending that final episode on a lackluster cliff hanger wasn't that great, and killing off those hunter dudes prematurely too. Yeah sure I liked how Rick went total badass and chomped that guy's throat out, but i'd of liked them to have stuck around for another season because that boss guy running the show seemed liked an interesting guy. But still wherever the hell they did to make season 4 good again I'm glad, because I was losing faith in the tv series.
Even so, I still love the game to bits and is still my top favourite out of all The Walking Dead stuff. I'm wondering if it was actually Telltale's game itself that caused the recent season on the tv series to be an improvement from previous ones, since there were a couple moments that did reminded me of the game [unstable lady keeping around her zombie husband's head, and the cannibals trying to play it off that they're friendly folks]
But yeah, Telltale rules.
Me too, I prefer the game over all other Walking Dead paraphernalia.
Doh, posted twice, sorry.
You're getting tired of AMC and the comics? Write your own story. Brainstorm to all hell, create a cast of characters, and then post it up here on the forums. That's what I do, and it's a great alternative to the comics.
Or, if you're more of an artist, you can create your own comic series of TWD. Get somebody to be your writer, then post it up on the forums, people would be excited as hell for a more realistic version of TWD comics.
That's your opinion. For me TV show is a millions years ahead than game. At least in TV they showed something more than just survival. They showed how exactly walker's brain works, they showed how people trying to build a new nation above these ruins and many other things.
What showed TellTale? Just survival. + cannibals. Well, that's something. But that's not enough. At least for me.
I just hope they'll show in the next episodes at least a part of things that was in TV show.
That's really interesting actually, it's a good idea since the telltale game is catching up to the comic due to its own timeskip. If the comic time-skips forward, then it means the game can continue on without going past the comic.
That also means that there is a lot of new content to explore for future seasons of the game, by setting it in between this comic timeskip.
The game is a spin-off of the comics right? Does season 2 take place at the time of issue 50, 60 100. They are more than 400 days and 16 months in the future by now.
I couldn't find the Comics online, so I just read the Wiki. Glad I did, 'cuase you're right. The ending was really stupid. I mean, I guess Negan's punishment is worst in the long term than a quick death, but, seriously, there's no guarantee he won't return someday. He won't, 'cause Kirkman is sick of him; but, if I were Rick, I would've killed the fuck out of him. Not because he deserves it (and, my God, does he deserve it) but because when you see a threat like that in the ZA, you eliminate it and end it right there.
I think Kirkman is pouring everything he's got into invincible right now or at least that's what it seems like. TWD comic is just run on and Rick's team is to overpowered.
The comic peaked at the Governor arc but then started going down hill.
Im still a fan of the comic but the game has become the best form of the walking dead media.
what happened to the neck slash? shouldn't negan be dead?
No screw you man you suck i aint read the issue yet but know what happens and i think is good! Negan is gunna be in jail and he will redeem himself somewhat, and help Rick out in a war with another unknown entity at some point in the future, its called Character development....as Rick said in season 4.....we get to come back!!
You jiz head
Well, at least we're going to see a new group of survivors in issue 127.
I like all the walking dead media (Comics, Game and Show). Okay, that's a lie, I don't like them all, I love them all. The show is what got me started, the game became my favorite of the three (It still is) and the comics only made me love it all even more. Just because the show isn't as good as the game doesn't make it bad. Telltale Games have amazing writers than even writers from movies nowadays can't compare to, so why expect the show to be that good?
I'm also confused by the title of this thread. You said that you loved Telltale, yet you said "Telltale has ruined it". Someone explain
I don't wonna know how the zombies work, except for little things like certain behaviours or weaknesses. I feel insulted when someone spends 20 minutes explaining to me how a virus/parasite/fungus can make you survive everything but headshots and force you to eat other people. We know it's bullshit, no matter how many fictional doctors try to make it seem real. As for rebuilding a nation, I guess it's one way to go and I suppose Wellington represents that, but there are many other possibilities, story-wise.
You're taking the title way too literally.
I feel the same way. I didn't like the end of All Out War, but it doesn't ruin the entire series. The OP meant that Telltale managed to keep it's quality while the show and the comics didn't.
another one of THOSE threads >.>
stopped reading after "Telltale is ahead..." (okay, I didn't, but I really should have to save me the frustration)
For one, the only reason they are so popular now is because they could write a story to an existing franchise. If there had never been TWD, there would have never been TWDG. That's a fact. It's hard to believe someone is "ahead" of someone when they wouldn't even be successful without the latter. They basically just wrote a fanfiction to TWD and managed to make money out of it. Granted, it's a very good fanfiction, but it's in no way original.
Don't get me wrong, I love Telltale's TWD, but all this hype is making me puke.
Secondly, Negan's arc is only over when he is shown dead. Rick sliced him, but he isn't confirmed dead yet. And even if he was, I don't see how it was stupid. Rick did the right thing here. It would have been stupid to even attempt working with a crazy bitch like Negan.
Edit: Well, I haven't realised a new issue came out recently. Will check it out later.
The show fell in quality because they kicked off the director and got a cheaper one to save money for Season 2 and 3, and then switched again to a good director for Season 4.
I get it now
I heard they got new writers in too and ditched the old ones when doing the next season with the farm, at least that's what I heard o__o