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The Walking Dead #154, pg 08 - 1st Appearance of Beta (with Negan) 3/4 Splash (Image, 2016)

Artists: Charlie Adlard (Penciller) , Stefano Gaudiano (Inker)

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The Walking Dead #154, pg 08 - 1st Appearance of Beta (with Negan) 3/4 Splash (Image, 2016) Comic Art

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Title:	The Walking Dead #154, pg 08 - 1st Appearance of Beta (with Negan) 3/4 Splash (Image, 2016)
Artist:	Charlie Adlard (Penciller)
Artist:	Stefano Gaudiano (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	Nope
Views:	2,414
Likes on CAF:	13 14
Comments:	14
Added to Site:	3/7/2022
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Image Comics. May, 2016.

Goddamn do I love this page! It sat on splashpageart for years and not long ago I had to pull the trigger or knew I'd regret it. There are no full splash pages from the issue making this the defacto.

The 1st appearance of Beta also happens to be a kick-ass Negan page. The build up to the meeting is epic: Negan is mocking the Whisperers and asking if they're really human Russian nesting dolls (dogs under the human skin). Beta creeps up behind him asking "You weren't sent?'. Negan replies "sent?", and que this page. While there were plenty of antagonists in the series, Beta was the final "official" villain and the tallest; towering over Negan. Oh, and also wearing a HUMAN SKIN HELMET!

Issue 115-192 TWD interior pgs have pencils and inked bluelines on separate boards. That made me hesitate picking this up. But in time I realized this is what exists for the original art, so it's this or nothing. The nice caveat is they are on larger 11x17" boards unlike the smaller 8.5"x14" boards Adlard used from issues 36-114. Gaudiano also enlarged Adlard's blueline pencils closer to the page edges making his inked blueline pages some of the largest published TWD art available.

Negan pages need his dialogue- that's what makes him such an endearing character. So I created an overlay to display the word balloons for the inked page that is framed on my wall while the penciled page is tucked away in a portfolio.

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David Geo
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 3/7/2022

Righty-o! Great image!

Tyler T
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 3/7/2022

Awesome page. Great reminder that you gotta love Negan.

Harry M
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 3/7/2022

The previous number one villian verbally confronts the newer number one villian, classic. Yeah I agree this one needs the word balloons. Great pick up. Congrats.

Gene Park
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 3/8/2022

Wow, great page!

Robert Altamura
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 3/8/2022

This is so good, especially with your additions. Nice.

David Askani’Son
Member Since 2012
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1 - Posted on 3/13/2022

Epic Page!! It's Crazy how Beta looks very similar to the one in the show.

FRED CRAMPTON
Member Since 2010

1 - Posted on 4/17/2022

RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 6/10/2022

So much fun! What a super example from this amazing series

John Espinoza
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 7/27/2022

That's some bad ass dialogue to go with a bad ass page.

James Dornoff
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 8/9/2022

Another really great page in the Walking Dead history, FANtastic!

J Ledger
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 10/19/2022

Wow cool semi splash and looks fantastic framed with the word balloons!

matthew reed
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 12/2/2022

i stopped reading twd around isssue 50 i suppose. i have all the trades and plan on burning thru them soon. seeing this page i certainly look forward to the read. thanks for posting.

J P
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 4/10/2025

Very cool page, congrats!

Daniele Carrabba
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 5/1/2025

Love this page!!

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