I’m going to figure a way to keep it going forever.” But I always had a story I was building to and I knew each new safe place that they got to had a reason for being and set up the next place they would go to because I know for a while, it seemed like, “Oh, I get it. How much story do I actually have?” I think people have the misconception that I’m like, “ The Walking Dead is popular. I was like, “Okay, so if we’ve already built civilization up to that point, I don’t think I’m going to make it to issue 300.” And so that’s when I started getting worried about, “Wait a minute. There’s an issue where everyone’s at the fair in Alexandria. There was a time when you said you were planning 300 issues… Not only did you drop the final issue as a surprise, then, you dropped a final season as a surprise. But Rick Grimes dying in the comic? I got two or three months of questions: “How does the book continue after this? Oh my god. It’s the last season!” The last season of The Sopranos, last season of Breaking Bad, I feel like some of those events don’t have the impact they should have because you know the season is ending. In Breaking Bad, when dies, I was like, “Of course he dies. What the heck? Wait, this is crazy.” That’s the thing that most entertains me, that makes me most excited about works of fiction: the surprise. If I had been watching that last season not knowing it was the last season, I would’ve been like, “Whoa. Robert Kirkman: I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan. What drove your decision to end The Walking Dead without announcing the end in advance? 'Walking Dead' Comics - Source of Multibillion-Dollar Franchise - Ends With Surprise Finale In an interview with THR conducted in March (roughly two weeks before lockdowns were enforced across America), Kirkman sat down and opened the pages of the Walking Dead series finale, stopping down for a closer look at the end of his seminal work. Gimple) and the newly released martial arts epic Fire Power, co-created by Eisner-winning artist Chris Samnee.īut as the just-released Negan spinoff issue indicates, there’s no real escape from The Walking Dead universe, even one year later. Far beyond the zombies of it all, Kirkman’s comic book work continues in the forms of Die!Die!Die! (co-created by Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M.
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“That was something I was really worried about: even if they liked the story, they’re probably going to be mad that it ended.”Ī year on from the issue’s surprise release, the verdict remains largely what it was: a strong and uplifting final chapter in the Grimes family saga, even if the greater Walking Dead universe continues forward in the form of the various AMC television series, a promised movie spinoff, and even the occasional comic book resurrection. “I think you could tell when you’re reading it that I’m very worried everyone was pissed off at me,” Kirkman tells The Hollywood Reporter about his final letter to the fans. Kirkman’s most circulated comments about ending The Walking Dead come from the final issue itself, in the form of a sprawling afterward in which he revealed his fears about the conclusion. It's been an incredible journey, and I wouldn't change it for the world, although it would have been nice to have a couple of more seasons with Sarah. In the space of three years I've done more gymnastics on this show then I have in probably four or five years. And it is kind of the big downer on what is becoming the single greatest job of my career. You make these incredibly brilliant and intense relationships with truly gifted actors and invariably they get bitten, and I have to kill them. The only downer is the fact that we lose people. I was just taking to Scott Wilson, and we were just riffing on how extraordinary how this show is. Q: Now that The Walking Dead is in its third season, what aspects of the show still surprise you?Ī: The show just surprises me and brutalizes me. Actor Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes on AMC's The Walking Dead, talks about turning into a real-life Southerner and describes what it's like to rip his guts out on set.
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