TheWalkingDead creator Robert Kirkman reflects on a shocking character death: 'I still miss him to this day. I really loved that character.'
Warning: this story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Deluxe #47, out Wednesday. "BLAM!" In Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, death often comes without warning. Some characters never see it coming. Just one issue after the Governor killed Tyreese — decapitating the fan-favorite with Michonne's sword outside the prison under siege from Woodbury forces — there are casualties on both sides as Rick Grimes' group of survivors comes under fire from the Governor's army.
Introduced in 2004's The Walking Dead #13 as one of the inmates still alive inside the Meriwether County Correctional Facility, Axel was serving a sentence for armed robbery when the walker apocalypse happened. Axel sided with Rick when his fellow prisoners — Thomas, Dexter, and Andrew — turn violent and attempt to keep the prison for themselves.
On AMC's The Walking Dead, Axel's live-action counterpart suffers a similar fate when he's suddenly shot in the head by the Governor in the Season 3 episode"Home." Original plans for television's adaptation of the character had Axel abducting and murdering Beth to reveal he's a serial killer, his"colloquial charm" covering up his homicidal urges.
Axel's death"wasn't a 'for sure' by any means," Temple once told Skybound's Talk Dead to Me podcast."There were several other regulars that were up to take it in the head. So it was leaning towards me, so they were trying to make me feel better by going, 'Well, you know, it could be so and so.'"
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