Rick and Andrea’s comic book romance inspired Rick and Michonne’s love story on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
“This issue also features Andrea’s line, ‘We’re the ones that live.’ Which I believe eventually evolved into ‘We don’t die’ if I’m not mistaken,” Kirkman writes in this week’s Walking Dead Deluxe #94, a reprint presenting the issue in full color for the first time. “It sealed the bond for these two characters and really solidified their connection.”
Part of Volume 16: A Larger World, the issue sees Alexandrians Rick, Andrea, Michonne, and Glenn joining Jesus on a trip to the Hilltop community. (It was around this point that the Rick/Michonne coupling became Richonne official on the TV show — a romantic development that almost happened in the comics.)
“As Andrea’s storyline got adapted to Michonne in the TV series” following her TV counterpart’s premature death in season 3, Kirkman adds, “that line was also the inspiration for the spin-off show titled The Ones Who Live.”
“They went with the more grammatically correct choice, a decision I cannot abide,” Kirkman joked. “Shame on them.”
“It was always this phrase that was pretty wild,” showrunner Scott M. Gimple previously told Entertainment Weekly of The Ones Who Live title. “As much as there were so many people dying and being able to say, ‘We’re the ones who live.’ But I never took it as just applying to the living people, because that seemed a little much to be like, ‘Hey, we’re the ones that live, too bad about all those people we love.'”
“No, to me, it felt like there’s a continuum of a relationship and love that cannot be extinguished,” Gimple explained. “And that is what is forged in this hell that we’ve lived through together. And the triumphant thing is that we forever lived through each other and beyond. That, to me, seems the message of the whole thing.”
The Walking Dead Deluxe #94 is on sale now from Image Comics.
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