Because the release dates for the issues of "IMAGE+" seem like they are impossible very hard to find through random searches, I asked the customer service folks at Image Comics if they could send me that information directly. This was their response:
With that in mind, these *should* be the official release dates for the remaining chapters of the "Here's Negan!" backstory:
Evidently Negan losing his wife(as we are now seeing in the backstory) is what transformed him into the man cold-blooded badass he is today... Pretty cool that Kirkman tied an essential plot-point from the backstory into the main series.
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"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
The more the story goes on the more I find myself liking Negan. He may be the so called "villain" but I don't think he really is that.
Also hopefully in the next issue we of Here's Negan we might see him in his first encounters with Walkers. Imagine what he would say when he sees one for the first time. Bet that'll be funny.
I'm betting his wife's name is Lucille, and he named his trademark weapon after her(remember, the backstory began with Negan wrapping barbed wire around the bat--essentially creating Lucille.)
Maybe the bat was a present from her? Maybe he used it to kill her after she turned? Dunno. Either way, the bat enabled Negan to survive... To prosper... To lead. Hell, he loved that thing as though it were a person. It clearly had some sort of sentimental/emotional value to him, and that's probably why. In some strange/twisted way, it reminded him of his beloved wife.
I doubt 'Lucille' was just some name he randomly pulled from his ass.
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"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
Last edited by Galan007 on Jul 8th, 2016 at 01:34 AM
*Another touching scene. Negan clearly loved Lucille a lot.
*Negan's initial encounter with the dead is eerily similar to Rick's. What with shit hitting the fan at a hospital and whatnot.
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"I am tired of Earth. These people.
I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
Last edited by Galan007 on Apr 10th, 2019 at 02:59 AM