In “Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me” News, We Now Know Rick Won’t Make It Out of The Walking Dead Alive

In “Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me” News, We Now Know Rick Won’t Make It Out of The Walking Dead Alive

I’m trying not to feel personally victimized by Robert Kirkman this week, but he’s making it really hard. First, he teases a big crossover episode between The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead but gives very little detail about how the whole scenario is actually going to work. Then, he goes ahead and casually drops the news that Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) — everyone’s beloved, rugged, and kinda-crazy zombie slayer and infamous lover of coral — is going to die. Like, really, truly die. And way sooner than we think.

“No one is safe,” Kirkman declared during a TWD panel at New York Comic-Con over the weekend. “Hopefully there have been points where you go, ‘Is this it? Is this where Rick dies?’ And he doesn’t. One day, the moment will…