The Walking Dead creator says Rick Grimes had to die because he got ‘too comfortable’ after uniting communities

ROBERT Kirkman, creator of The Walking dead, has explained that Rick Grimes’ death was of his own making.

The comic book maestro explained that as Rick built a safer, more unified community in the zombie apocalypse, he let his guard down.

In the graphic novels, Rick was shot by Sebastian Milton as he laid in bed.

He was then reborn as a walker, forcing son Carly to put him down for good.

“Rick Grimes fixed the world to the point where he was so safe that he could be killed by the weakest character in the book,” Kirkman explained.

“It’s a statement on how good of a job he did,” he continued to Comicbook.com.

“At no point in the history of the comic could he have been killed that way.

“It wasn’t until the very end that he was able to relax.”

Andrew Lincoln, who played Rick in the AMC TV series, was killed off in the last series of The Walking Dead.

However, in a diversion from the comics, he perished sacrificing himself by blowing up a bridge loaded with walkers, who were on their way to one of the allied towns.

Kirkman remained cryptic when asked about the ending of his latest comic and the fates of Sebastian, Carl Negan and co.

“I definitely have little tidbits of, ‘Oh, that happened to this person, that happened to this person’, and you see some glimpses of that in the last issue,” he went on.

“But there’s obviously a lot more going on,” he said.

The Walking Dead season 10 kicks off on 6 Oct on AMC in the US, and 7 Oct on Fox in the UK.