Carl Grimes is a main character first encountered in Issue 2 of Image Comics' The Walking Dead and is the deuteragonist of the series. He is the son of Rick and Lori and the brother or half-brother of Judith Grimes. He joined Shane with Lori to travel to Atlanta, for the refugee camp and is one of the last of its surviving members. As time goes on, he slowly becomes hardened, due to the severe loss of life of the loved ones around him. He has also had to adapt to the new world which Rick was reluctant for him to do, but has done so with as much brutality and animosity as him.