The Walking Dead: Is Daryl’s Group Destined For a Grisly End?

When the group of home invaders first arrived on AMC’s The Walking Dead for the second time, and made it clear they would be a fixture for the rest of the season, we wondered whether they might be The Hunters, among other groups of generally unpleasant characters from the comics.One possibility that didn’t occur to us at all was “The Marauders,” a group of savage, roving thugs from the comics who held Rick, Abraham and Carl at gunpoint and, among other things, tried to rape Carl. Their efforts were halted when Rick Grimes brutally murdered two of the three men and Abraham killed the third. Their deaths were some of the most brutal in the series and, like The Hunters shortly thereafter, their pleas for mercy went unheeded by Rick.Less than twelve issues for readers (and likely just a few days for the survivors) since the death of Lori, Tyreese and others during the fall of the prison, Rick was at the end of his rope and during this time, he committed a number of truly savage acts to protect what was left of his group.