Rick's Love Life by Gary Hainsworth

If you haven't seen this weeks episode of The Walking Dead, see it. I write this post just say to a few brief things. Here it is. Apparently, even during the zombie apocalypse, Rick Grimes' love life can't catch a break. Lori. Now Jessie.

At least in the comics, Rick slept with Jessie Anderson before she got killed off in Issue 85 (and fate had to add insult to injury and force him to cut off her hand postmortem in order to save Caaaarl! who loses an eye no matter what canon he's in). At least in the comics Rick ended up with Andrea...for now.

However, in the television series, it appears that the furthest tat Rick's woody got with Jessie relationship was a kiss, and Andrea got bit by Milton (who was played by the actor that told Johnny Cash to "bring it in" in "Walk the Line") in the finale of season 3. She ended up having a fate worse than death: being in the 2014 Dumber & Dumber sequel. 

I guess Rick can find at least one silver lining in all of this, a minimum of one worthwhile consolation. Unlike the comics, the Governor didn't take Rick's hand. So he has that going for him, and if the zombie apocalypse continues to run interference in Ricks love life, he's going to need it.

© 2016 by Gary Hainsworth