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Know Your Villains: The Walking Dead's Negan

AMC’s The Walking Dead introduced Negan, a new villain at the end of season six that shocked the audience and left them holding their breath in one of the most brutal cliffhangers the show has ever done. Comic fans, however, are already familiar with this foul-mouthed and bat-wielding psychopath since his debut in The Walking Dead #100.

The de facto head of The Saviors and merciless leader of The Sanctuary; Negan has been a thorn in the side of Rick, Ezekiel, and the other survivors for over 50 issues. Learn more about this monster of a man with these must-read comics and trade paperbacks of The Walking Dead.

Beware: there are spoilers for The Walking Dead comics below!

 

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The Walking Dead Volume 17

Rick first encountered The Saviors in the aptly name story arc “Something to Fear”, collected in The Walking Dead Volume 17 (SEP120449). While Negan wouldn’t appear for three more issues, The Saviors made themselves known when they ambushed Rick’s group demanding food and goods in the name of Negan. After Negan finds out what has happened he sends a group of Saviors to capture those who oppose him and bring Rick, Carl, Glenn, Maggie, Sophia, Michonne, and Heath to Sanctuary to mete out their fate. As Negan toys with his prey, swinging his beloved weapon Lucille, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, he chooses Glenn to kill and does so with glee and malice. 

 

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The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 3

With Glenn dead at the hands of the mad despot Negan, what comes next for the band of survivors led by Rick? Collecting nine story arc and forty-seven issues, The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 3 (AUG150497) shows the fallout of the battle between The Saviors, The Kingdom, and Hilltop. Now Negan, Ezekiel and Rick must go head to head in a war for survival while a new threat emerges that only Carl may be able to stop – The Whisperers. Is this new group a threat on the scale of Negan or can they help win the war against this madman? 

 

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The Walking Dead All Out War Artist Proof Edition

The battle for survival culminates in bloody conflict between the main warring groups as Negan goes on the offensive against Rick and his band of survivors. See the full story arc as it was originally conceived in The Walking Dead All Out War Artist Proof Edition (AUG140613). This stunning hardcover displays artist Charlie Adlard’s raw pencils in every gory detail. The whole of All Out War has never been collected in one single volume, and now fans can read this soul wrenching story arc in its entirety, the way it was meant to be.  

 

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Image Giant Sized Artist's Proof The Walking Dead #100

Negan’s first appearance was shocking and brutal, climaxing with the death of the beloved long time character Glenn. This is truly a turning point in the thirteen year old series, marking a definitive end to the status quo readers once knew. Now you can relive every painful moment in the Image Giant Sized Artist’s Proof Edition The Walking Dead #100 (AUG160612). Featuring the original art for issue 100 in an oversized 11” by 17” format, this issue features some of Charlie Adlard’s most iconic work. A gory and gorgeous centerpiece, this issue is truly the height of storytelling for The Walking Dead

 

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Image Plus #1

The Negan who was introduced in The Walking Dead #100 is a remorseless psychopath, but what made him this way? Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard are out to answer this burning question in an all new backup story starting in Image Plus #1 (FEB168243). “Here’s Negan” is an ongoing twelve part story exploring who Negan was before the zombie outbreak and what drove him to become the merciless tyrant Rick and the survivors encountered. A total of 48 pages of backstory will be doled out to fans through the year, with Image Plus #7 (AUG160729) available in comic shops on October 26th.


Learn more about Negan and The Walking Dead at your local comic shop and watch the season 7 premiere on AMC, October 23rd! 

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