The Walking Dead: Are the Hunters Coming?

Last night as part of a story about The Walking Dead‘s journey toward Terminus/Sanctuary, we speculated that the entire thing might be a trap laid by The Hunters–a group of cannibals from the comic book source material who jump strangers along the road and eat them.The Hunters were a group of survivors that Rick’s group encountered while on the road to Washington, D.C. following the fall of the prison. In the comics, the group was traveling together at this point, rather than scattered around as the TV series currently has them–but then again, in the comics both Carol and Tyreese were dead by now, so one of the groups headed for Sanctuary is charting totally new territory from the comics anyway.The Hunters, led primarily by a man named Chris, consisted of five men and one woman who turned to cannibalism after desperation and hunger led them to kill and eat the children traveling with their own group. Their base was shown to be an isolated countryside home with dense forest and some fences surrounding it.