Negan is alive and well in the comic books, even earning Rick’s trust years on from events depicted in the TV series.
As we just witnessed in the season 8 finale, the leader of his fallen faction The Saviours finds himself locked away as Rick’s prisoner following the culmination of All Out War.
Rick has battled Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) for two agonising seasons after he mercilessly bludgeoned both Abraham and Glenn to death in the traumatic season 7 premiere.
The eighth season of The Walking Dead has drawn to a close in earth-shattering fashion as All Out War – an arc which has shaped the show for the past two years – comes to an end.