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.

I guess in all of the obvious ways. I can afford more diapers for my children. If I want to buy a complete set of Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay I don't have to ask my wife so hard. For the most part, it's mostly the same. I keep my head down and I just work on comics for most of the time.

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

I write the way I write.

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.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.