Dale (Comic Series)

Dale throughout the series is seen as one of the main characters. He's a widower, having lost his wife to the zombie breakout, and living alone in the R.V the characters use throughout most of the series. He soon becomes the sole protector and eventually lover of Andrea, and once, her sister Amy. He also becomes the god-father of Donna and Allen's kids Billy and Ben. Most of the time he's a peaceful man, but when there is danger upfoot, he is on the guard like everyone else. In book 7 (The Calm Before) when he and Herschels son, Billy, are trying to gather some gas to power up the generator for the emergency room for Judiths birth, they realize they have to go outside and get the gas from the cars instead, since they're out of canned gas. In the retreat back inside however, Dale is bitten in the right leg by a zombie hiding under one of the cars, and is taken to the emergency room only to have it amputated. Scaring, and frustrating Andrea, he decides to never act like that again and decides to lead a peaceful and normal life with Andrea raising Billy and Ben. This involved leaving the prison after the first failed assault by the Woodsbury Army in fear. However regrouping with Rick after the the second bloodbath assault, they are left with no option but to follow Rick once more. One day, Ben goes insane and kills his brother Billy in book 11 (Fear the Hunters). Dale is shocked, but he can't come to grip of letting the group punish Billy by whatever means necessary. And so with the entire group in fear, Rick's son Carl, while everyone's sleeping, sneaks into Bens tent and shoots him. This immediately made Dale lose most of his humane mind, and he eventually grew further away from the group socially. Later, their camp is attacked and Dale is bitten, but he tries to hide to not bother anyone. So he decides to go into the woods for his final human moments, when he is suddenly hit in the back by a rifle, and taken to a camp run by "the Hunters" who are cannibals. They eat Dale's left leg, and knock him out after Dale goes crazy and tells him they're eating "tainted meat". The Hunters however knew Rick's group was hiding in the church owned by the Priest they met on the road. So the Hunters come to the conclusion to use Dale as bait to lure them out into the woods for the perfect capture position, but Rick senses their trap, and are able to get Dale inside the church for medical attention. Dale tells Rick all that he could remember of the The Hunters camp for them to make their assault and end them once and for all. Shortly after this, Dale dies when he is shot in the head out of fear and love by his lover Andrea in the bed, and is cremated.