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One cliffhanger. Six months of waiting. And now not one but two victims. AMC's “The Walking Dead kicked” off its seventh season with a pair of incredibly violent deaths, finally delivering the answer to just whom Jeffrey Dean Morgan's charismatic and aggressive villain Negan whacked with his barbed wire bat named Lucille. Sunday's episode, which remixed the events of Robert Kirkman's comic book series, featured Glenn's (original series star Steven Yeun) highly anticipated death. While the season premiere remixed the events of the landmark 100th issue of Kirkman's comic series — in which the beloved Glenn is savagely beaten by Negan — the AMC series put a new twist on his fate. Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) instead was Negan's initial victim — the result of his random "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" selection featured in the comics. It allowed viewers to have a glimmer of hope that Glenn would going to make it out of the episode alive. That, however,...