the walking dead days gone bye robert kirkman

RR: You took a lot of flack in the letters column because of Dead’s similarity to 28 Days Later and how you introduced the character of Rick. RK: Oh yeah, I gotta have stuff to keep this thing going for a while so I can cash in on its success! RR: Plus you’ve got to provide enough engaging drama to keep the series going. To me it’s more entertaining to work on the book just focusing on the people and following their lives than just having some half-naked chick running around in the woods being attacked all the time.

I mean you can do that, but it’s not necessarily all working towards the goal of shocking people in a comic it’s just to creep people out or whatever. You can’t really get the “Oh!” reaction by turning the page and finding there’s something shocking going on. But I think the horror genre and the “jumping-around-the-corner” scares are so reliant on motion and sound that when you do a horror comic book, you have to focus on atmosphere, dialogue, and other stuff.

That’s just my opinion Steve Niles will obviously tell you something different. Robert Kirkman: I do that out of necessity more than sheer want to do it. Ryan Rotten: The Walking Dead’s narrative addresses humanity before horror can you talk about that a bit? Shocked, yet determined, Grimes sets out to find his family, who he believes ventured into the “safety” of the big city, along the way meeting other survivors and facing plenty of gruesome dangers.Īt the time of this interview the series is entering its eighth issue, the second with artist Charlie Adlard on pencils and inks. Oh, and let’s not forget about the zombies milling about. His wife and kid are gone, their whereabouts unknown. Romero alone (and I’m talkin’ about the George Romero, not Caesar Romero, kids) proved that the fly-swarmed backdrop of a zombie epidemic was fertile ground for intense, often truthful, human drama (give me one his Dead films from the holy trilogy over any Oscar-winning yawner any day) and this is where Kirkman goes a-wanderin’ each month for inspiration to continually serve us one of the finest horror comics on stands today.ĭays Gone Bye, which collects the first six issues illustrated by Tony Moore, follows Officer Rick Grimes, who is shot in the line of duty and sent into a coma only to awaken months later to discover nothing is as it once ideally was.

The walking dead days gone bye robert kirkman