How Carl Could Have Become The Main Character Of The Walking Dead – Looper

As winter extends its icy fingers over Georgia inKirkmanand Moore'sThe Walking Dead#6,Rick and pre-apocalypse police partner Shane Walsh decide to go hunting, hoping to keep their freezing group of post-apocalyptic survivors well fed. They've recently been training everyone how to wield firearms to defend themselves fromwalkers, but as former cops, they're still the two best shots, so it makes sense that they're the ones who go.

Ever since Rick awoke from his coma and found his family, though, Shane's been more than a bit off his rocker as fellow survivor Dale aptly puts it, "That boy's got problems." So, naturally, Rick wants to use the hunting trip not just to hunt, but totalk.It ends up being more of a chase than it does a trip, however, with Shane punching Rick in anger and running off into the woods. Rick finds his friend eventually, of course, and they finally have a discussion though not a very civil one.

Shane breaks down, cursing the new world and his place in it. In the midst of his fury, he lets slip that "she" obviously Rick's wife Lori "would have come around eventually." Before Rick can process the comment, Shane points a gun at him and ... is shot dead by Carl, who'd been trailing them the whole time. Not even 10 years old yet, all the boy wanted to do was protect his father. And so he did.

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