“WithWalking Dead,I was much younger and much more reckless,” Kirkman told the audience.
“I was an absolute lunatic.
I would get in the writers' room and be like, ‘Kill Rick Grimes today!
EW’s editor-in-chief Patrick Gomez and Robert Kirkman at Comic-Con 2023.Kevin Winter/Getty
I don’t care!
It’ll be funny!
People will freak out, and it’ll be fun!’
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes on ‘The Walking Dead’.AMC
The writers were like, ‘Robert, you’re crazy.
We can’t do that.’
But any time there were big changes inThe Walking Dead,that’s what excited me.”
Instead, Rick survived to thevery end of the original AMC series.
Also, unlike his original plans forThe Walking Deadshow, he plans to stick slightly closer to the originalInvinciblecomics.
I don’t want to say I’ve learned my lesson, but I’ve learned my lesson."
