If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

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.

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 think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into little chapters and, if are successful, continue for years and years. What that means to me, as a writer, is it tells stories of transformation and evolution as characters.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.