The Walking Dead: Who are the Cannibals?

Of all the predictions about this weekend’s season finale for AMC’s The Walking Dead, easily the most frequently-recurring one is that cannibalism will be involved.It kind of makes sense; around this time in the comics, Rick Grimes and his merry band of survivors were heading into the “Beware the Hunters” storyline, in which a cunning group of cannibals secretly tracked and stalked a number of our characters. They attacked Glenn and ultimately managed to kidnap and partially eat Dale (he lasted longer in the comics, for you TV viewers).The Hunters were the first major enemies to come after The Governor, and their appearance tied together a lot of things that were going on at the time; a vicious turn Rick took when a group of highway bandits tried to assault Carl tied together with the merciless way the survivors dispatched The Hunters to show a more proactive and violent side to our heroes…something that was playing off of the then-fresh death of Lori and Judith Grimes (among others) during The Governor’s siege on the prison.