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THE WALKING DEAD ISSUE
STATE OF THE FANDOM TL;DR:
The show finally has a new showrunner, Angela Kang.
The TWD fandom is wild.
Some think that she has injected new life into the story,
There's movies and video games and character
but others have already left the bandwagon. They
deaths, oh my!
might be gone, or just dwelling in seasons past for
Fans are frustrated, but this too shall pass.
now. Will they come back and try it out? Maybe eventually. But it might not be enough. I know that I haven't personally watched in a long time, and even
My fellow fandom members,
though I love the characters and the actors, it's hard for me to to consider coming back because I've been
Hello, intrepid readers, and welcome to our Walking Dead
so disappointed in the past. I may still be writing
issue. Though our portents are not as dire as they were
Walking Dead fanfiction, but you can write fanfiction in
when we discussed Tumblr's impending adult content ban,
a vacuum, as we all know.
they are still not great. That's because The Walking Dead, both the comics and the television show, are in, honestly,
All is not well in the comic universe, either. Robert
kind of a weird place right now. Fans are hanging on, but
Kirkman, who is no longer involved with the show, has
how long will it be before they move on to bigger, better,
announced that he knows how the comic will end. He
and brighter fandoms? Only time will tell.
hasn't yet specified when that end will come, but we can probably assume that it's going to be sooner rather
The big news, obviously, is that Rick is gone in the television
than later. He has also announced that everyone's
show. Andrew Lincoln will be starring in a set of movies that
beloved protagonist, Rick Grimes, will not survive to the
continue Rick's story, but he will no longer be a regular cast
end of the series, and some fans are mad enough that
member. In addition, everyone on the show thinks he's
they've decided to stop reading.
dead, so they've all moved on. With the previous death of Carl, and the most recent death of Jesus, fans are weary.
We know it hurts to see our favorite things end. We
Which may be ironic, considering the content of the show,
don't want to say goodbye to our favorite characters
but a lot of these decisions don't seem to have been
played by our favorite actors, or that favorite comic
motivated by plot, which can be a hard pill to swallow.
that we look forward to reading religiously every
