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The question that Season 7 of "The Walking Dead" will answer in just a few days is, "Who Negan killed?" But there is no need to wait for the new season premiere on October 23 as TWD creator Robert Kirkman offered an interesting scenario - it's not necessarily Glenn.
Rumors have been pointing to other characters - among them Abraham and Glenn's wife Maggie - as Negan's victim. In Season 6 finale, new TWD villain made his mark by bashing to death an unidentified character using his barbed wire-wrapped bat named Lucille. Kirkman's TWD comics indicate that it was Glenn.
The latest reports, claiming access to Season 7 casting and shooting updates, are saying that there could be multiple deaths to mark Negan's entry to the zombie apocalypse television series but there are reasons to believe Glenn is part of the kill list.
But if Kirkman is to be asked, writing off Glenn is not necessarily accurate. Kirkman acknowledged that TWD fans would naturally base their TV version predictions on the comics but doing so will only lead to disappointments. Or for followers of the beloved Glenn, a collective sigh of relief.
According to BleedingCool.com, Kirkman has set separate routes for the TWD comics and the hit AMC show so it would be futile to say that Glenn is no more in Season 7 of The Walking Dead just because the comics said. In fact, it going to be an entirely different ending for TWD as mapped by showrunner Scott Gimple, the report said.
Bleeding Cool said that the TWD comics will surely outlive the TV version and as confirmed by Kirkman. "If the show were to ever end, ever, at any point and the comic was still going, I would have to sit down with Scott and pretend I have no idea how to end it, and then work with him to try and come up with a new ending," i09 reported the TWD creator as saying.
As for Glenn, it could be that he will be killed or not by Negan but Kirkman is not revealing anything. Sure in the comics the character is already a goner but Kirkman and Gimple can always revise what will happen on the small screen.
"Originally, the plan was for The Walking Dead comic to end when Rick Grimes' crew reached Alexandria ... Then Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard changed it. And are almost 100 issues passed where that would have been," Bleeding Cool said.
And basing on the hints so far, it could be that Glenn will say goodbye in Episode 1 of The Walking Dead Season 7 with Negan as his executioner or he will go on and perhaps be part of the show's ending. For sure, the last say on the matter will come not from the TWD comics but from the creator - Kirkman.
