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For Negan, At Last, A Burial For Lucille (Walking Dead Spoilers)

Published Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:21:06 -0600

Last updated Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:11:19 -0500

This is how the Walking Dead: Negan story by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, running monthly in Image Comics' solicit magazine, Image +, began. A fire burning, and Negan threading barbed wire onto a baseball bat – a bat better known as Lucille.

The same Lucille who would inspire scenes such as…

and…

Before eventually…

But why so much pain?

Negan's origin story in Image + goes on to tell us more, as before the outbreak of zombies, he cared for his wife, dying of cancer.

I say, "cared". He got round to that way of thinking eventually.

…and her eventual death…

…and then her return…

and her name. And as he came to terms with what was happening around him, it is worth noticing that, just like Rick Grimes, Negan was in a hospital when the outbreak occurred. But while Rick was in a hospital bed, Negan was dealing with the world.

…or not. Though he soon gets wise to the world… and sees something he likes the look of.

A bat that loses its owner in a zombie attack…

…gets put to get use…

…before being claimed by its new owner.

And in today's Walking Dead, finally laid to rest. Though, for Negan, it's not the bat that is being buried……it was never the bat. As for the barbed wire? Still to come…