After setting us up in Alexandria and giving hope of rebuilding society and joining with other local commnities, things come crashing down around the ears of Rick and co.
This is the volume where Negan makes his first appearance so one of those things crashing down around at least one character's ears is Lucille, his pet baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it.
As a side note, I've seen several shops selling Lucille as memorabillia for the show. I've never been quite certain about how advisable it would be to have that on display in your house...
The plot is moving so much faster than the TV show did at this point. That's probably a good thing.
One of the biggest differences between the two versions is Carl. This couldn't be helped I suppose, they were on season 6 when the events in this episode happened so they'd been going for 6 years and the actor had refused to stay 10 years old. In the comics, he's still a small child and that makes some of the stuff he's involved a lot harsher than the TV ever could have done.
Just like the season opener of series 7 - this is one of the toughest and most intense to date. The famous death from this episode is, if anything, more brutal than it was on TV. We really don't have many of the original charactyers left now.
This is one fictional world where absolutely anyone can die. There are no characters we know will live. And that's part of what makes this so compelling.
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