Robert Kirkman Quotes (32 Quotes)

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

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

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.

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

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'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

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'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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If I'm happy I like writing Invincible.

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

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

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

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.

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

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.

As far as improvements go... I've got a long road ahead of me, so I'd like to improve in ALL areas of comic writing... I mean, why not.

I write the way I write.