![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The series, which published its first issue in October of 2003, ended with virtually no advance fanfare (unless Kirkman’s efforts to throw fans off the scent counts) when Kirkman dropped the 193rd and final issue in July of this year. ![]() “A lot of people think that we just thought about this a couple of months before,” explained Adlard, “but no, this was something that was planned for a very, very long time.” But Adlard said the ending itself had been "four years in the planning,” and that the small team behind the genre-defining zombie comic knew when it would all be over. It definitely came as a shock for fans, but for its creators, the seemingly sudden end of The Walking Dead’s long and winding journey toward becoming one of the most influential graphic novels of all time was anything but unforeseen.Ĭharlie Adlard, the longtime TWD artist who collaborated with creator Robert Kirkman on the series beginning all the way back with Issue #7, recently told the BBC that, yes, the announcement of the ending may have seemed abrupt to the wider world. ![]()
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