However, their relationship ends as they part ways during the conflict with Negan. When the group arrives at the prison, Carl starts dating Carol's daughter Sophia. Carl begins as a normal and innocent child, but as the events of the new world order force him to grow up, he becomes colder and competently makes sometimes brash decisions for the good of his group of friends. Carl later finds his father's reanimated body and puts him down.Ĭarl is the son of Rick and Lori as well as Judith's elder brother. Rick is killed after Sebastian Milton shoots him multiple times and leaves him for dead. Rick then kills Sherry after the Savior's betray his alliance, and then he learns that Andrea was bitten and is dying, causing him great grief. Rick begins to trust Negan after the latter brings Alpha's head to him. To divert this, Rick manages to move the survivors anger towards The Whisperers through propaganda and army campaigns. After The Whisperers attack the Safe-Zone during the fair, Rick's leadership is questioned. Two years later, he is still leading the Safe-Zone and dating Andrea. As the war with Negan escalates, Negan forces Dwight to shoot Rick with a bolt (possibly with walker blood on it to infect Rick with the walker-virus), but as Rick does not turn, Dwight is proven a trustworthy ally and not a surreptitious foe. Rick is the leader of the Alexandria survivors community. Eventually Rick begins a romantic relationship with Andrea in Alexandria. Rick is very protective of Carl, while at the same time he feels detached from Carl's now bleak outlook of the world. At the same time, he never backs away from a difficult decision affecting his community.
For the heavy loss of lives that have occurred, Rick constantly blames himself. Rick suffers frightening hallucinations of her, and for a while seems to hear conversations with her on an old phone. Lori's death leaves Rick an emotional wreck. He lost his wife and daughter during the fall of the prison. As the story progresses, Rick adopts a more dark and assertive nature. After finding his family in Atlanta camp, Rick quickly assumes the role of the leader of the survivor community. While in a shootout against an escaped convict with his partner and best friend, Shane Walsh, Rick is wounded and subsequently awakens from a coma some time later. Before the zombie apocalypse, Rick is a sheriff's deputy in the small town of Cynthiana, Kentucky. Volumes the character is alive but does not appear in Volume 1–8 Character The following table graphically shows each recurring character's status in each volume of the comic sorted by which volume they first appeared a character marked as absent in one issue may appear in a later volume.