The Walking Dead ended with issue #193. 1 / 9
However, Robert Kirkman reveals he nearly ended the series much sooner... 2 / 9
... at the end of the "No Way Out" storyline. 3 / 9
Following Rick Grimes hopeful speech about rebuilding civilization... 4 / 9
... a bleak ending in which Alexandria was revealed to have been... 5 / 9
... wiped out by zombies ensued. 'The dead won,' he wrote. 6 / 9
A statue of Rick would have hinted at how far the survivors got. 7 / 9
Kirkman describes the ending as 'terrible' and as making the 'whole story pointless.' 8 / 9
The ending would have also meant such characters as Negan never appeared. 9 / 9