{"id":3338,"date":"2008-05-16T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2008-05-16T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:43:45","slug":"the-walking-dead-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/the-walking-dead-49\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead #49"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For the last time, that\u2019s not zombie Rick Carl is leading on the cover of \u201cThe Walking Dead #49.\u201d If Rick was a zombie, he\u2019d be chasing after Carl and trying to eat him, who cares how close he was to him as a human? Either way, Kirkman manages to stir up controversy and heavy debating yet again with this issue, but damn if it isn\u2019t a good one. Kirkman has a lot of questions to answer, and I have a feeling he\u2019s going to in 50, but for all the inherent excellence this issue has, it\u2019s pretty much just filler.<\/p>\n

The first page opens with a truly gut wrenching scene as Michonne, left in the haze of battle, proceeds to destroy ill fated Tyreese\u2019s zombified head, and jams the blade into his temple as he looks up at her from the ground, sheds a tear for his state, and disappears into the bushes to track a set of footprints. Whose is it? Is she out for blood or looking for someone? Is she looking for Rick? Is she looking for Andrea? Where did Andrea go? Is she dead? Where is everyone who left on the RV? Have they found a special safe haven? And more so, are they safe? Regardless, any comparisons to Cormac McCarthy\u2019s \u201cOn the Road\u201d are gone now as this issue is meant to set up issue 50.<\/p>\n

Rick and Carl are now on the hunt for food, and have realized that they\u2019ve been inside too long. Rick is nearly killed by a decrepit roamer on a search for food in a General store, and fails to properly defend himself when his axe misses the zombie\u2019s brain. Carl shoots with ace precision, and they finally end up at an abandoned house. Rick and Carl talk a while, and we gain a brilliant sense of his vulnerability now that he\u2019s really only left with one hand. In one very heartbreaking instance, Rick asks Carl to open a can of food for him. Angry and sad, Carl refuses to eat partially out of rebellion but that will later be clarified, hopefully. It\u2019s all set up for a clincher of a final scene that has left readers raging over the next issue.<\/p>\n

Is Rick dead? I doubt it. I think he took meds, and is very high, and now Carl is all on his own to find help or proper medication. Issue 50 promises to be incredible with Carl now relying on his own instincts and weapon handling to find a way to help Rick, which will surely be one compelling fiftieth issue for all readers. Anyone who still thinks Rick has died on the final panel of this issue clearly doesn\u2019t know Kirkman. Since when has he granted subtle deaths to characters? Remember how horribly Rick\u2019s wife and newborn daughter were mutilated in the line of fire? I now await #50, which will provide us with a deeper look into Carl and how much he\u2019s progressed as a warrior and realist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last time, that\u2019s not zombie Rick Carl is leading on the cover of \u201cThe Walking Dead #49.\u201d If Rick was a zombie, he\u2019d be chasing after Carl and trying to eat him, who cares how close he was to him as a human? Either way, Kirkman manages to stir up controversy and heavy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[856,1079,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rot-your-brain","tag-robert-kirkman","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}