The Walking Dead 141 NM Kirkman Adlard 1st print Negan Cvr Image Comics

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THE WALKING DEAD #141 (IMAGE COMICS)

Story By: Robert Kirkman
Art By: Charlie Adlard
Art By: Stefano Gaudiano
Art By: Cliff Rathburn
Cover By: Charlie Adlard
Cover By: Dave Stewart

Opportunity.

Rick arrives at the gates of Alexandria, back from his trip to the coast. Before he can enter, he is greeted by Dwight, who doesn’t feel like going inside and talking with the others.

After being questioned about Sherry, Dwight says she found a nice guy, someone who “has more face than [he] has” and that they’re on good terms with each other. He then opens up to Rick, saying that he doesn’t feel like he’s fit to be a leader and asks him to choose a new leader for The Saviors.

Rick states that he can’t do that, because Dwight took control of The Saviors back after the Battle of Hilltop, and that he needs to tell his people that he’s stepping down, and that they will need to elect a new leader.

After The Saviors leave, Aaron and Heath discuss how everyone doesn’t particularly like The Saviors and how they’re the weirdest group of the mix, joking that The Sanctuary should be renamed a “place with bunch of weirdos.”

Andrea soon meets Rick inside the gates and asks him how the trip went. He greets her, and they discuss the upcoming fair. The conversation is cut short by Rick going to visit the jail, much to Andrea’s dismay.

He goes down, and much to his shock, Negan is sitting inside his cell with the door open. Negan sarcastically welcomes him home.

Rick reaches for his gun, only to be taunted by Negan about his leg and his “grandpa” appearance. Negan then questions Rick about the gun, since he could have easily sneaked behind and subdued Rick, but instead he decided to stay, in an attempt to make Rick trust him a little. He goes on and says that he could have booby-trapped the safe-zone, he could have started a fire in the house to kill Rick and Andrea while they were asleep or that he could have simply raped Andrea without anyone knowing.

Much to Negan’s surprise, Rick still says that nothing has changed and that he has no trust in Negan. Knowing that nothing he says will work, Negan proceeds to taunt Rick about the reason why he’s keeping him locked up; to prove to himself and no one else that he has mercy, and that he wants others to believe he’s a good person. And that he is the only one who can fix the world.

Elsewhere, Rosita announces to the Alexandrians that she and Eugene are going to have a baby. Discreetly, Rick takes Olivia away from everyone and harshly chastises her for leaving Negan’s cell unlocked.

Later, he and Andrea talk about what happened and discuss the risk of having Negan there, “living” with them close to everybody else. Andrea suggests that they should just kill Negan already and be done with it. Rick then proceeds to talk about how he must give an example and prove that they’ve changed, that death as a punishment isn’t necessary anymore, that they can control their emotions and prove that they’re civilized people, and that if they let that go and kill again, everything will fall apart.

At the Hilltop Colony, Maggie and the rest of the residents watch Gregory being hanged as punishment for his attempt on Maggie’s life.

Near mint condition, first printing.