The Walking Dead: 10 Things That Could Happen Next (According To The Comics)

3. A Time Jump

One of the most ballsy moves in The Walking Dead comics €“ in a series that's characterised by its ballsy moves €“ was the recent time jump to two years in the future. It's a move that isn't exactly rare on television, either, with everything from superior NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation to superior sci-fi SyFy series Battlestar Galactica benefitting from leaps forward in time. It unsettles and also skips over a load of boring stuff you'd forget anyway. In the case of The Walking Dead, a time jump would be a god send. Pacing has always been a problem with the show, more so than the comics, so skipping forwards a little would provide a little respite from that and also explain thing like why Carl looks to have aged five years in a story that's definitely not been set over that sort of time span. The time jump in the comics works to set Alexandria up as a utopia, where the city has expanded to include a huge population, a self-sufficient eco-system including crops and the like, Maggie giving birth to her and Glenn's baby and calling it Herschel for some reason, Rick in a stable relationship with Andrea...okay, that last point can't happen for obvious reasons, but the rest seems destined for the TV show at some point.