Author: Cameron Bonomolo / Source: The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead’s season 9 San Diego Comic-Con trailer teases the arrival of a major player recently introduced to Robert Kirkman’s comic books: the Commonwealth.
A sign attached to a spinning windmill reads: “COMMONWEALTH Windmill & Pump Service.
Saltville, VA.” Saltville is located in the real-life Commonwealth of Virginia.The easter egg pays homage to the Commonwealth of the comics, a network located in Ohio of nearly 50,000 survivors interspersed throughout different settlements.
Several survivors belonging to Rick Grimes’ Alexandria Safe-Zone — Michonne, Eugene, Siddiq, Magna and Yumiko, and newcomer Juanita — first encounter the organization in The Walking Dead #173 at the end of the communities’ strife against new enemy group the Whisperers. The group are drawn to Ohio through Stephanie, a contact big-brained inventor Eugene establishes over the radio.
In the ‘New World Order’ arc, launched in issue #175, the Ohio travelers are brought into the Commonwealth by armored soldiers clad in Stormtrooper-like suits. The survivors learn the Commonwealth operates on a class system, and Michonne is shocked when the Commonwealth reunites her with a significant figure from her past previously believed to be dead.
Among the numerous characters introduced through the sprawling organization are Lance Hornsby, Maxwell Hawkins, Elodie, red armor-wearing officer Mercer, spoiled snob Sebastian Milton, and his mother, Pamela Milton — the governor of the…
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