6) Crazy Rick = Worst Rick
Alright comic fans, this is where I need your support – isn’t AMC’s version of Rick a total bitch? I don’t expect non-readers to understand, but he’s got so much more gusto and machismo in the comic, while also being entirely human. He’s a leader, father, but also an extremely flawed character who makes mistakes like the rest. Still though, he does so with much more gumption and presence than his show counterpart, which was really evident to me when he started seeing Lori’s ghost.
Ignoring the fact that apparently a zombie ate Lori whole, her death in the show came as a sigh of relief due to her increasingly annoying nature. In the comic, Rick starts hearing his wife’s voice on the phone, which is carried over into the show when Rick picks the phone up and hears voices, but then AMC took it a step too far in the crazy direction by making Rick start hallucinating Lori’s ghost. OK, he’s distraught, not sleeping, angry, depressed, Rick’s a whole lot of emotions bursting out at once, but to do something as cliched as having Lori’s ghost haunt him? I honestly couldn’t stand the scene where he wandered around outside the jail aimlessly trying to chase Lori’s ghost in the woods, striking a super-low character point for Rick. Honestly, this arc was nothing but laughable.