The Walking Dead comic officially ending with tomorrow’s issue

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Well, this is a surprise. It looks like after 15 years, The Walking Dead comics are coming to a surprising ending this week. Yes, On Wednesday, a triple-sized issue for the same price as a normal issue will release, concluding Robert Kirkman's 15-year saga. The details of The Walking Dead issue #193 are being kept a secret as a means to preserve spoilers but we do know that this will be the first issue released since SPOILERS Rick was killed in issue #191.

Kirkman wrote in the Letter Hacks section of issue #192. 

Rick's death was planned longer than any death in this series. I've been working toward this since I started writing… issue #1. It doesn't make it any easier, but it's been something I've been getting more and more used to as the years got down to months and then weeks… I knew it was coming.

He continues:

Even before we introduced Sebastian Milton (in issue #177) I knew he was the one who would kill Rick Grimes. For almost a decade now I knew Rick would choose to preserve the Commonwealth no matter the cost… and it would cost him his life. I've said in interview for many, many years that everyone dies in this story, and that even Rick Grimes won't survive until the end. While this was always Rick's story thus far, as written about in the first issue, that doesn't mean he needs to be alive to be a presence in the series. This is the story of a world profoundly affected by that man, as we'll see starting next issue… but it isn't exclusively Rick's story."

The Walking Dead issue #192 is available now in comic book stores. Issue #193 hits shelves in comic shops on Wednesday. This is not expected to impact the AMC series which returns for its tenth season in October.