Robert Kirkman Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

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.

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

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

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

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

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

I write the way I write.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

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

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

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.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That's science.

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line.

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.

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

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

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.

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.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

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.