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Hi! I'm still alive and this has caused me to pop up for the first time in...quite a while...to say that this is a terrible idea and AMC needs to let this franchise die. Please? Pretty please?!

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I have read Negan Lives! and it was pretty good! A little bit thin and very similar to issue 174. The letter from Kirkman at the end seems to indicate that they aren't necessarily planning on continuing the story...but it seems more like the first issue in a series than a stand-alone story.

I hope they keep going with it because I'd love to see the Comic!Negan fandom (all, like, 9 of us) get a bit of a revival.

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Fuck yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

NEGAN LIVES IN SPECIAL WALKING DEAD ISSUE

The New York Times bestselling, award winning creative team behind The Walking Dead phenomenon—Robert Kirkman (Fire Power, Oblivion Song) and Charlie Adlard (Vampire State Building)—returns to the beloved series for a surprise one-shot story, Negan Lives #1, which will arrive in stores this July.

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This is the Mad Max version of Negan!

Negan in The Walking Dead: Road to Survival

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Agreed with all of this. Also, I have no idea what they're even going to do with TV Negan at his point. None of the things that Comic Neegs ends up doing in the Whispers arc will feel organic, logical, or deserved if they try to pull them off with TV Negan, tbh.

It really sucks to see such a great, nuanced character be reduced to only a plot device that's just there to "redeem" himself by rescuing young women in distress about once a season. In fact, when Rick left the story, they should have really just dumped Negan and his story too because the redemption arc only works if Rick and/or Carl is there, in my opinion. Giving those interactions to Daryl and Michonne, or Lydia and Judith does not have the emotional punch that we need to make this feel right.

The more I think about it, the more the idea of TV Negan being outraged by rape in the Whisperers camp seems so absurd to me. Comic Negan makes sense and fits the character organically. People even were saying 'wait till (Comic) Negan sees the abuse going on...'

Comic Negan nearly blew a blood vessel when he caught David trying to rape Holly; his rage was genuine and tangible. TV Negan felt manipulative and blasé. Comic Negan's first human kill - before he was the Savior leader--was of a man offering a woman to him to rape. His relationship with Sherry was also completely different... They had an affair before he was the leader, then Sherry dumped her husband to live with Negan because he was more powerful and 'wealthy' than Dwight.

Maybe it's just my bias speaking but I think trying to play off this outrage with TV Negan would feel shoehorned in and disingenuous. Add on to that that Comic Negan risked his life and blowing his cover in the midst of the Whisperers by choosing to attack the two rapey Whisperers. TV Negan didn't even want to kill a few walkers...am I gonna buy that he goes berserk mode attacking the 'pack'? (also the tv whisperer seem even more vicious making that course of action extremely risky...)

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Mike gives me so many Comic!Negan vibes personality-wise.

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That smirk though...💦

This piece was a complete accident, but I call this the “smug bastard” look. I might clean it up at some point but I kinda dig the sketchiness.

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Blessed Comic!Negan image!

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Me too. :(

I miss Negan :(

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All I want in life.

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Forever reblog!

Nice horsie.

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Gosh, I cannot wait for IT Part 2!

Red Letter Media / Stephen King

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A history of the pre-TV Negan fandom! This is cool too know because, even though I'm a comic!Negan-lovin' gal, I only started to participate after TV Neegs came about.

Had to represent for the...dozens?...of us comic fan girls! ;)

As somebody who only joined the Negan fandom post-TV-Negan, was the fandom for comic-Negan always full of hateful/awful antis or was that a result of TV-Negan? I seriously got told to kill myself yesterday because I rebloged a Negan post. It's mad stupid and I was just curious about the origin of it all lol.

Mainly, yes. But there's always been people who hate Negan no matter what.

A brief history according to my observations. When I made my blog it was probably mid 2014. There was very little Negan content. Some fanart, and a few RP blogs. Very little fanfic, and the ones that came out were often variations of the theme: Negan forced OC (or Beth) to become his wife, sexual harassment ensued and she killed him.

When the Terminus episode rolled around with the big rapey guy, people were speculating he was Negan. Since the topic of Negan being made flesh on TV was now in the air... More and more Negan hate began to surface. Alot came from the Beth fan crowd. Lol.

Anyway, there was tons of long-winded blog posts about how Negan was a rapist and anyone who liked Negan was a 'rape apologist'. At this time in the comics we'd had Negan kill rapey David and the Savior Laura confirm Sherry was a gold diggin' ho who left Dwight willingly to be pampered by Negan. (yeah, I know the show didn't end up sticking to this. Ugh.)

Many of these 'he's a rapist' posts contained comic 'facts' that were totally made up by the Negan haters who clearly hadn't ever read an issue. It was pretty obvious. I made quite a few posts about how misinformed they were but I never really received hate personally that I can remember. However seeing posts about how liking Negan meant you were a 'rape supporter and misogynist' made me block alot of these jokers. (and some blocked me.)

So that was the landscape pre-TV Negan. The closer it got to him appearing, the more hate came out. So once he became a prominent well known character on a popular show, combined with how the show chose to portray him (ie: butcher him...IMO) well, that's when the hate really seemed to take off. More people equals more haters who like to send their cowardly little hate anons because they're too pussy to do it to your face.

So, is TV Negan to blame or simply the fact he's expanded into more people's lives..? I don't know. I do think even if he had been portrayed exactly to the comics, there would still be haters.

But being a comic Negan blog, I haven't got a ton of hate. Hell, more of my hate came from TV Negan fans that didn't like my dislike of him. Lol. But yes. I have seen the hate TV/Negan fans in general get. It's stupid as hell as you said. Maybe I don't get much because I blocked so many hater blogs back in the day, or I just don't have enough people seeing my blog to care.

Anyway that was long as hell....lol!

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My newest Negan merch!

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I think he’d send them to the object of his affection? Lust? Hahaha! But only if they seemed into it. And they’d probably be silly somehow. Like, he’d add dumb emojis to the pic or have a dumb joke caption. Something kinda like that. ;)

Ok guys, question time!

Would Negan be the sort to send dick pics?

If so, solicited or unsolicited?

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These are excellent!

Negan Icon Dump 💕

Please just credit me somewhere, for you use any of them. Thank you!