The Walking Dead: 15 Most Shocking Comics Moments

In the TV show, the harrowing story Lizzie and Mika largely plays analogous to the story of twin boys Ben and Billy. Ben and Billy are five-year-old twins who witness their mother’s death at the hands of walkers, and it leaves them emotionally traumatised.

Ben suffers especially deep psychological trauma and begins to exhibit signs of psychopathy. Eventually he ends up butchering his twin brother, Billy, and tells the adults it’s okay because everyone comes back. The adults, undecided on what they should do with Ben, lock him up in the van overnight.

In the show Carol kills Lizzie, but the comics are not so kind. While the adults are debating what to do with the murderous Ben, comic Carl sneaks in to his prison and shoots the young boy point blank. Children killing children is horrifying, and watching little Carl take it upon himself to execute a five-year-old to protect the rest of the camp is sickening.

It was moments like this early in the comic’s run that really made readers feel uneasy, but it was almost impossible to look away from the unfolding horror.