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Learning From The Governor – Walking Dead #117

There have been no previews of this comic send out by Image Comics or Skybound this week. This may well be the new way of things going forward during All Out War.

This issue, Negan has been put on the back foot, rather.

Exactly. Indeed, it's actually refreshing for Rick's combined crew to actually be on top for once.

Of course, this may well be the lull in the storm. This issues shows Negan is incredibly unpredictable, and emphasises for all the black and white of the artwork, it's all about the greys. Negan is the star of his own story and has about as many moral qualms and flaws as Rick, and equally able to defend his position on a moral basis. And, as Robert Kirkman points out in the back, you wouldn't expect The Governor to have done what Negan does at the end…

And maybe that's the point. The Governor was portrayed in a very different way on the TV show, his point of view more defensible, the moral choices more relatable, and his current broken state that of a sympathetic individual, and its possible that the comnic has taken a little of that on. Now, Negan is mad – or at least that's the way he holds himself. But like The Governor, he had created a situation of homeostasis, where the whole supports the whole, a dictatorship that worked, and in which people could live their lives according to the choices they made – and would live. In comparison, under Rick, there was more freedom, more more people died.

Basically, Negan is Obamacare. If the website worked, and the appointed doctors carried a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

The war continues…

The Walking Dead #117 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard is published today. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, hosting a signing with Frank Barbieretonight.

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