![]() Of course, it wouldn’t matter if he hadn’t so skilfully built those characters in the first place, ensuring we like them.Īs with the previous Compendiums, including eight books means a lot of ground is covered. With a TV show on the go perhaps Rick and Carl Grimes are safe, but pretty well anyone else is shuffled off if it’ll make for a good dramatic moment. He’s extraordinarily unsentimental about his creations. That highlights another strength of Kirkman’s plotting. How serious is Negan? Well, Kirkman establishes his credentials by having him kill a long-running member of the cast. ![]() “Little pig, little pig let me in” has never read as chillingly. He’s more intense and credible version of the Governor from earlier in the series, ruling his own community on the work of others. Negan runs a bunch of thugs who extort produce from local communities, running a form of protection racket. However, the clever thing is, it may all be an act to keep his followers off balance and in their place. He calls it Lucille, and refers to how she needs fed, which is as good an indication as any as to his possibly psychotic character. He’s the primary villain in most, an intelligent, manipulative man who rules his thugs through fear, disfiguring them with a hot iron for infractions and battering foes to death with his baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. ![]() ![]() It says something for how much Robert Kirkman enjoyed writing the antagonistic character of Negan that he features in every single one of the eight paperbacks collected here, from Volume 17: Something to Fear to Volume 24: Life and Death. ![]()
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