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This article is about the Comic Series character. You may be looking for his Assault or TV Series counterparts. For other pages with the same name, see: Jim

L--Leave me. When I come back...maybe I'll find--find my family... (...) ...maybe they c--came back, too. Maybe we can be together again.
―Jim's last words to the group.[src]

Jim is a survivor of the outbreak in Image Comics' The Walking Dead. He is a member of the Atlanta Survivor Camp, and one of the few people to have made it out of Atlanta alive.

Overview[]

Jim is rather quiet and reserved, seldom interacting with other members of the camp and generally only speaking when spoken to. This is due to the traumatic events he witnessed while he was trying to escape the city, namely seeing his entire family get devoured by the dead. Jim carries a tremendous amount of guilt and anger, since the only reason he was able to escape was because the walkers were too busy feasting on his family. This anger manifests when walkers attack the camp, as Jim furiously beats one of them with the butt of his pistol while yelling at it for killing his family. After he is bitten, he ultimately asks to be left behind to reanimate, so he can be with his family again.

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Atlanta, Georgia[]

Not much is known about Jim's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he was born in 1962 and was a mechanic and had at least a mother, and a wife and sister - between his family and his sister's, there were five children.

Post-Apocalypse[]

Days Gone Bye[]

When the dead began to rise, Jim remained generally unaware of this until the city of Atlanta, decreed a safe zone by the government, gradually started to become overrun with the undead. Jim saw his boss getting infected and became one of the few who managed to escape from the city as it was completely overwhelmed. However, Jim witnessed the deaths of his entire family, as they shielded him from the zombies long enough to allow him to escape. Emotionally traumatized and devastated by the loss of his family, when Jim joined the survivor group just beyond the cities outer limits, he was noticeably the most taciturn member, revealing almost nothing about his past and barely saying a word.

During the zombie attack on the camp, after failing to kill one with his gun, Jim grapples with a zombie and flies into an uncontrollable rage, driving him momentarily insane. He beats the zombie to death with his gun, whilst screaming and cursing at it for killing his loved ones. After coming to his senses, he finds the zombie had bitten him during the brawl, taking a massive chunk out of his arm. Jim suffered the effects of the zombie plague for days.

He attended the funeral of Amy, and expressed his liking for her, dubbing her as "pretty and smart."

Death[]

Killed By

During the walker attack in the Atlanta camp, Jim is bitten by a walker on his arm. Following the attack, Jim refuses a mercy killing, but is unable to stay with the group.

Jim voluntarily chooses to remain at the entrance to Atlanta under a tree to reanimate, with the hope that upon reanimating, he could turn into a walker and be reunited with the rest of his undead family.

Killed Victims[]

This list shows the victims Jim has killed:

Relationships[]

For a more in-depth look at Jim's relationships, read here: Jim (Comic Series)/Relationships

Allies[]

Appearances[]

Issues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Book One 👁 👁
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Book Eleven
Book Twelve
Book Thirteen
Book Fourteen
Book Fifteen
Book Sixteen
Appears Voice is heard
👁 Appears with no lines Appears in a flashback
Appears as a walker 🖼 Appears in a photograph/video
Appears as a corpse Appears in a hallucination/dream

Trivia[]

  • It is revealed that Jim is 41 years old in the script book.
    • Jim was born in 1962.
  • Jim is the only character of the original group to have an undead status.
  • Jim was originally going to star as a main character in a prequel trilogy.
  • The Walking Dead Survivors' Guide; mistakes Jim as the father of Sophia.
  • According to Glenn, Jim is the only known survivor who made it out alive from the city of Atlanta.
  • Robert Kirkman answered the question whether naming characters the same name, such as Billy, Chris, Jim, Eugene, Eric, and Bruce was an oversight, "It's not oversight at all. It's completely unrealistic for a group of people to meet at random and never encounter the same names."
  • Robert Kirkman states in the Deluxe version of Issue 6 that Jim's death was inspired by his personal frustration over the cliché of bitten characters in zombie movies choosing death over becoming zombies, as he believes that most people would opt for the alternative.

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