The Walking Dead Answers Comic Fans' Prayers with Epic Rick Grimes Scene

Summary:

• The Walking Dead was originally a comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, first published by Image Comics in 2003.
• In 2010, AMC premiered the television adaptation of The Walking Dead, developed by Frank Darabont.
• The success of the main series led to the creation of several spin-offs, including Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

The Walking Dead franchise continues to evolve, defying expectations with daring narrative twists, and ironically refusing to die.

Unexpected alliances, like Negan and Maggie teaming up, and surprising character arcs, such as Daryl Dixon's escapades in France, keep audiences on their toes. However, the most intriguing development yet is that The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live marked the return of the iconic protagonist, Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes.

The first episode, titled The Years, kicks off with Rick captured by the Civic Republic Military. Despite assurances from the CRM of letting him go back home after six years of service, Rick's yearning to reunite with his family in Alexandria drives him to take drastic action.

And that is where the long-awaited twist turn happens: Rick chops off his own left hand to set himself free.

Now the series’ version of Rick looks more canonical, because in the original comics by Robert Kirkman the character lost his right hand even earlier. It was cut off by Governor Woodbury when Grimes refused to give up the location of his camp - this happened in The Walking Dead #28.

For his part, Lincoln wanted the plot follow the source material and was rooting for this scenario move long ago.

“I’ve been banging on about this for years," Lincoln confessed to the The Hollywood Reporter. "I’ve been trying to get my hand chopped off!”

If AMC had followed the storyline of the comics, it would have happened way earlier — in season three of the Walking Dead.

The creators of the series have repeatedly made references to this event from the comics. For example, Aaron (Ross Marquand) lost his arm in an accident and wore a prosthetic that he used to fight walkers.

Another memorable character from the series who wore a prosthesis was Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker).

Also in the sixth season, the blood of a walker got into the wound on the former sheriff’s hand; everyone thought that he would lose his hand, but he was able to save it.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter