[reply]Seriously? How do you get bored with negan running around?
man, I don’t get it. I really like the comic and I’m kinda pissed they always leave off on a cliff hanger. I’m digging all out war right now cause it’s every other week. So for the most part I run to the comic shop when it’s the day.
Oh well to each their own
Negan is just too… flat for me. i donno, its hard to say. maybe i got burned out on the 99 issues before number 100, but 100 in particular just felt empty and loveless, and then the little bits i read afterward were even more… dry.
[there be spoilers!]
i think killing Glenn that way and at that time was nothing other than a cheap and dishonest attention grabber. someone had to die in issue 100, and it had to be someone that mattered. that tied in with the HUGE amount of misogynistic elements to Negan’s introduction and character just struck me as uninspired. also, well before issue 100, the writing for Carl was starting to bother me. in the comics since the run in with the cannibals i felt the writing getting a little less invested in some of the side characters, to the point that a lot of them have become quite cardboard.
i havent been keeping up with the All Out War block, but im ok with that. Negan is just not at all appealing to me as a villain, and i fear that big choices were made too early in the series that are being regretted now, and the writing is suffering.
that said, the show on the other hand has REALLY stepped up. the Gov in this last season became a nuanced and many-feathered animal, pulling out a lot of interesting moments and characteristics that gave me a whole lot of ideas and questions about him.[/reply]
Definitely SPOILERS
I tore through the compendiums like a madman and then picked up with the single issues with Negan. man, we could not be more opposite on negan. I think Negan trumps the governor in so many ways (in both comic and TV). I really didn’t care for the Tv Show governor 'cause, to me, he was too tamed down. they also made him white, where in the comic he was clearly mexican. Although, I think that casting call was a good one because David Morissey really brought that whole charisma and charm, country bumpkin style, politician to the character, whereas the governor in the comic was really just a brute. but that being said, I didn’t care for the governor in the show just because he, I felt, was one dimensional. Although, I think Morissey played the one dimension well, but then again how hard is it to portray lindsay graham or a plethora of other deep south politicians?
Negan, on the other hand, ups the power hungry brutishness of the comic book governor 20 fold. Man that guy is a scum bag of the highest order and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a villain as evil and self serving as he. The most messed up thing about him is he has convinced himself that he does all of his fucked up shit for the good of the group he heads. Just a pure sadist. You can go ahead and not like him for the misogynistic pig that he is but it’s not like those personalities don’t exist in real life (obviously not to his degree but Misogyny still exists whether anyone likes it or not). I seriously wouldn’t even call him misogynistic based on how cruel he is to everyone. The way he killed glenn was extremely cruel and the fact that he made jokes over it was just the topper. Yeah I agree the death of glenn was an attention grabber but it’s not like they killed him off and then took negan down a peg. that guy is still as just as bastarded out now if not even more so now. So, I think while he may not be a character you like based on the personality they gave him I don’t really think he’s flat. I really think it is going to be hard for them to top negan as far as a bad ass. I’m hoping they do a one shot Negan issue that explains his back story a little like they did for tyrese michone and the governor.
I have mixed feelings about them bringing Negan to the tv show just because I don’t think they will be able to really bring his character to life. they’d have to bring the show to premium cable channel to pull it off. So, I think they would sorely diminish the character but then again I would like to see who they would get to play him and how close they could push the line with him… but if they are going to completely rewrite the character like they did with the governor then I say leave him out of the show.
As far as carl, I’ll take comic book carl over tv show carl ANYDAY. man I hate that kid on the show, he’s a horrible actor and the parts they give certainly don’t help him any. It’s like he graduated from the Annakin skywalker school of acting. Plus that little fucker got dale killed, easily my favorite character from the show, although Daryl is a close second.
Kirkman has kinda said as much about big decision being made and said the show is a nice way to explore different avenues they didn’t take in the comic. So, I take that as Kirkman admitting follies that he made in some of the stories, I seriously don’t think it makes either suffer. as I said, I like the comic as much as I do the show and I’m actually looking forward to the spin off show due to hit next year.
So, you don’t like walking dead comic anymore? You looking to unload those first 100 comics?? [:)]