The Walking Dead: 15 Most Shocking Comics Moments

TV fans will remember the gut-wrenching moment we watched baby faced Carl put a bullet in his surrogate father’s zombified head to protect his real father. That was one of those moments where fans knew The Walking Dead wouldn’t be pulling any punches. If only they read the comics.

Comic Carl also kills Shane, but with the major difference that Shane was still alive and very human. Comic Shane had snapped and planned to take Rick out to the woods and kill him so he can be with Lori and Carl. Carl follows them and when Shane tries to kill Rick, Carl shoots him in the neck screaming at him not to hurt his daddy again. It’s a slow, agonising death as Shane was shot in the neck and slowly drowns in his own blood out in the dark woods.

The decision to have Carl kill human Shane is massive. Killing a walker Shane is traumatic no doubt, but there's a distinction to be made between the living dead and just the living Committing murder, of someone he was so close to - and at such a young age, no less - really conveyed to the reader just how harrowing growing up in this new world could be.