This a (blood) red-letter day for fans ofThe Walking DeadcreatorRobert Kirkman.
“The coronavirus blew that up but Diamond is allowing us to distribute our free Comic Book Day book.
It will be kind of cathartic to pretend that none of this occurred.”
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Below, Kirkman talks Powerand why he decided to reanimateThe Walking Dead.
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At what point did you realize it was going to be such a sizeable story?
I’m usually writing a 22-page comic and I know that I have that restriction.
But I was trying to write this in a way that I allowed the scenes to breathe.
I could go on forever!
At least that’s the hope.
Would you sit around watching old kung fu movies as “research”?
I mean, that’s what I would have done.
[Laughs] I wish I had more time to do that kind of stuff.
A lot of times I just rely on, I watched this 17 times when I was a kid.
I haven’t come across a wise old sensei character who is also a fan of Radiohead before.
I usually give a shot to avoid that, because I feel like it’s going to date things.
But for this one I was like, I want this character to be really personable.
Most of the mentor-teacher characters in kung fu films are extremely stand-offish and intimidating.
You kind of want to be his best friend.
Could you tease the actual series?
How long do you plan the series to last?
Talking ofThe Walking Dead, you wrote this one-offNegan Lives #1, which is benefitting comic book stores.
How did that come about?
Independently-owned retail stores are getting hit pretty hard these days.
Once the thought was put into my head, then Negan kind of took over.
The stores will charge for it but all the revenue generated by the book will go to the stores.
