He searches for his wife, and son, and encounters many survivors along the way. He is a former police deputy from Cynthiana, Kentucky, who was shot in the line of duty and fell into a coma, only to awaken and find himself in the midst of the apocalypse. Rick Grimes is the former protagonist first encountered in Issue 1 of Image Comics' The Walking Dead. If you don't want Pamela Milton to lead you-then don't let her lead you!" -Rick's last inspirational speech to the citizens of the Commonwealth. bring about a Commonwealth that works for you. is this the kind of leader you want? That you deserve? Then let your voice be heard! Take charge of your lives. just to maintain that power? I ask you, people of the Commonwealth. hoping you would see the error of your ways eventually. where the few live a position of power over the many. But that's not the case, is it? We don't seem to have that respect for each other. because we know what we've all lived through. We should have an elevated sense of respect for each other. because of what we've just lived through. We haven't worked as hard as we have just to bring back old, flawed, unfair systems. WE ARE NOT THE WALKING DEAD! At least we don't have to be. We do not live minute to minute, in minutes stolen from us by the dead. We're not among them-not living on borrowed time. We no longer live surrounded by the dead. We are on the road back, I can see our future ahead of us, and it is bright. because our world, the one we knew, was never coming back. embrace a savageness in order to survive. I used to think we had to put our humanity on hold. To be so close to the way things were before.
They serve as a reminder of what we've lived through-what others have done to us to survive. We carry those scars with us-each and every day. " This world has scarred us, mentally and physically.