'Walking Dead' Season 6 SPOILERS: Major Carl Plot from Comics Coming to Show?

The Season 6 premiere of The Walking Dead is a little more than a week away, so we'll finally see what the writers have in store for us. A new report indicates that we could see a major plot from the comics come to the show for everyone's favorite child character, Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs). Be warned, spoilers will follow.

In the comics, Carl gets shot in the eye several issues after the group arrives at Alexandria. A horde of zombies breaks through the walls and in the ensuing chaos, a stray bullet catches Carl in the face and takes out his left eye. This is a game-changing moment for the character, but could it happen in Season 6 of the TV show?

Entertainment Weekly asked showrunner Scott Gimple about the conversations the writers have had about this plot. “We don’t know if anybody’s losing their eye,” he replied. “This is not A Christmas Story.”

Gimple often says the show is a remix of the comic book. The characters and overall plots are largely the same, but events that happen to some characters in the books happen to other characters on the show, or don't happen at all. Take, for example, Rick's losing his hand in the comic. On the show, Merle lost his hand instead, likely because it would have just been too much of a hassle to have the main character lose an appendage.

“There are some things we can’t do that were in the comic,” Gimple said. “Rick losing his hand — there’s also another big TV show that did it recently.”

It's a safe assumption that Gimple is referring to Jamie Lannister on HBO's mega-hit Game of Thrones.

So does all this mean that the Carl plot isn't happening in Season 6? Gimple wouldn't commit one way or the other. “There are other things we can and will do,” he said. “There is a balance to be struck. If it is stuff that’s really important to serve the character, we need to try and do it. It’s also just if we can pull it off on a consistent basis in a great way. There’s stuff we can do, there’s stuff we can’t do. I would never tell you what it is.”