Graphic Novel Rick or Television Rick?

Usually, the book is always better than what’s on the television or movie screen. In this case, the television show is far better than the graphic novel. As someone who watched the show before reading the graphic novel, I couldn’t get interested in the book. In the beginning of the novel, Rick wakes up and wanders around the hospital before seeing the horde of zombies in the hospital’s cafeteria, his reaction is accurate when he sees them but then afterwards…what the hell kind of reactions does he give? The graphic novel Rick is so calm and collective after the hospital scenes! He’s a joke. 

In the television show, Rick gives genuine reactions towards what’s happening around him.  When Rick is wandering around his abandoned neighborhood, he comes across and meets Morgan and his son Duane…after he wakes up from them hitting him unconscious. There’s a big difference between the graphic novel Rick and the television show Rick. The Rick in the book jokes around with Morgan and doesn’t care much about Duane around a weapon when they’re at the police building. In the television show, Rick is very serious and when Duane wants to handle a gun, Rick reminds him that it isn’t a toy. In my opinion, Rick is more serious and accurate in the show than Rick in the graphic novel.

Rick is too calm…too much of a jokester and just annoying in a way to me in the graphic novel. Everyone around him is more serious about the situation than he is! Yes we could say that he wasn’t there when it first started and he needs to process it all in his head, but as someone who wakes up in the middle of a great zombie apocalypse, he should be freaking the hell out! In the television show, Rick barely makes a joke, he rarely smiles and he handles the situation like he life and those lives around him depended on it…(and it does). If I was placed in The Walking Dead universe, I would feel more safe around Rick Grimes from the television show than the graphic novel one.