THE WALKING DEAD Is Not A Dream

There have been a lot of theories on how the zombie apocalypse began in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. However, one theory gaining momentum is that the zombie apocalypse everyone is watching unfold is just a coma-induced dream manifesting Rick's fight to wake up.

By MarkJulian - Oct 26, 2014 04:10 PM EST

Filed Under: The Walking Dead

Is Rick Grimes still in his coma? Is the zombie apocalypse really just a symbolic, coma-induced dream manifesting the internal battle Rick is undergoing to wake up? It's a theory that many Walking Dead fans subscribe to, however, Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says that's 100% not true. Taking to twitter to respond to a recent Uproxx article, Kirkman set the record straight.

Going on record to answer this: http://t.co/3lhUI6A3bW Rick is NOT still in a coma. The events of TWD are definitely happening.
— Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman) October 24, 2014

But Carl and everyone else are all imagined. He actually NEVER found his family. He's been crazy since he killed his first zombie. #joking?
— Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman) October 24, 2014

If you want to read the original Uproxx article, you can click the link included in Kirkman's tweet. No one really knows how the zombie apocalypse actually started except Kirkman. Originally, Kirkman pitched Image Comics on The Walking Dead as the idea that the zombies were reanimated horrors by aliens, bent on disrupting the Earth's infrastructure before invasion. However, that was just a ruse by Kirkman to get Image to sign off on the comic and he had no intentions of actually using that storyline. Recently, Kirkman has given indication that the comic book series may be drawing to the end however that depends on whether the popularity of the series wanes. Said Kirkman in a past interview on the subject----

"I have an end in mind for the comic, and I actually wrote the final scene the other day. I know what I want the final dialogue to be. It may change but the interesting thing to me is that I can never tell anyone involved in this show what the ending that I have in mind is because the comic book most likely will outlive the show. I can't have any nugget of what I have planned making it into the show, because if the show ends on season 12 but the comic doesn't end for, eight, 10 or 20 more years, my ending will be spoiled. That would piss me off."

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SuperCat - 10/26/2014, 4:22 PM

I hope it's not a dream. That would be lame.

Bekss - 10/26/2014, 4:22 PM

He has say that múltiple times in the comic questions.

Bekss - 10/26/2014, 4:24 PM

He also has said he doesn't care how the apocalysis started because the comic is not about that. Is just a bunch of people living in this world.

Carl - 10/26/2014, 4:41 PM

haha

TheNameIsBetty - 10/26/2014, 4:43 PM

I sincerely hope this show lasts for 12 seasons, it's incredible. I can't speak for anybody else but I never fell off the bandwagon for it

batz11 - 10/26/2014, 4:47 PM

Think one of Gusto's floozies started the damn thing...

TheePeterParker - 10/26/2014, 4:51 PM

@supercat

"i hope its not a dream"

why would you comment that dumb ass, he just said its not a dream... learn to read

batz11 - 10/26/2014, 5:03 PM

Learn to write, irony...

Prime - 10/26/2014, 5:16 PM

No shit

JillyMcBeam - 10/26/2014, 5:24 PM

I stopped watching after season two. Just couldn't hold my interest.

McGee - 10/26/2014, 5:25 PM

DD + RG = JS

batz11 - 10/26/2014, 5:26 PM

This season has been amazingly great, should get back on board Jilly, unless Wimpykid converted you to WWE instead, lmao...

MetropolisKid - 10/26/2014, 5:38 PM

dammmmn that actually blew my mind

JillyMcBeam - 10/26/2014, 5:40 PM

Speaking of WWE, @McGee, you'll appreciate this.

patriautism - 10/26/2014, 5:44 PM

Well I knew it wasn't the case. On another note, mosyly directed toward Galactus. What is with the social buttons CBM has now that cover everything on the left side of the screen up? Do you realize that it is covering up your news feed, so people can't see what they're clicking on?
It also cuts off a lot of what you're typing so I'm just making a guess that the stuff to the left of my paragraph is correct. Seriously dude why the left side of the screen, where any English speakers start reading?

SuperCat - 10/26/2014, 5:46 PM

@ SpiderManFan54

F*ck you. People in show biz lie all the time in regards to movies and TV ("Star Trek Into Darkness," Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.") By the way, grown-ups use punctuation marks when ending a sentence, numb nuts.

McGee - 10/26/2014, 5:46 PM

Soon....very soon we learn the fate of Nucky Thompson....

"When you're all alone...and there's no one left to judge you..."

Carl - 10/26/2014, 5:48 PM

[frick] I cant believe boardwalk is ending tonight.

McGee - 10/26/2014, 5:51 PM

Jilly...

batz11 - 10/26/2014, 5:55 PM

Yeah, shit, should watch Boardwalk then TWD from dvr, cruise through commercials, hmmm, damn, decisions decisions...

redkrypton - 10/26/2014, 6:04 PM

Carl is actually a mentally challenged child staring into a snow globe which has a model of the hospital in which his father died in, St. Eligius Hospital. He dreamed all of it up.

cosmicman - 10/26/2014, 6:10 PM

THE WALKING DEAD Is Not A Dream... and you are a moron if you thought it was...

batz11 - 10/26/2014, 6:24 PM

No, The Walking Dead is more a nightmare...aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...
:)

Timerider84 - 10/26/2014, 6:54 PM

I hope its a happy ending in the show. It would suck to go through all of that, just to die later...it would be dumb. Somebody better survive and start things over. It would be cool if time travel was involved thanks to the Govt. Just go back and stop it from ever happening and everyone lives again.

Carl - 10/26/2014, 7:05 PM

time travel?!

........

JorL5150 - 10/26/2014, 10:19 PM

All of you are figments of my imagination.

Some of you (not many) are engaging enough ill remember you when I wake up for a bit and I might even have a fond chuckle about it -
Most of you are not. Just random firing of synapses in my REM cycle.

McGee - 10/26/2014, 11:47 PM

....Nucky :(

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