Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for creating The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth30 November 1978
CityRichmond, KY
CountryUnited States of America
I think in my nine issues I plan to introduce exactly one character from the Marvel Universe that hasn't appeared in the Ultimate Universe yet.
I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.
I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.
I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with.
The X-Men have just been through a lot. It's pretty much been non-stop since the beginning, really. So I'm giving them the night off.
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.
As far as the trades go, I want to avoid how comics have captions or just really stilted dialogue at the beginning of the pages.
I know it's funny to hear someone talking about a new Image book making it past issue forty but we're really shooting for that here.
I had a little bit of issue seven left after Tony left the book and I had to write half the book knowing that it wasn't going to be drawn by Tony.
I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.