We'll only see what's going on if the characters we're following go there. are we ever gonna get an idea of what's going on in the rest of the world? Like in Canada, or even overseas? I don't want to be specific it also smells funny in there." The Rest of the World But that doesn't mean it's 2004 in the book. but the book started in 2003 and only a year has passed in the book. June 2004 at this point (If you're keeping track)." " is set in modern times. Now, ( Issue 38) in the book it's still only like. In regard to the timeline, Robert Kirkman wrote in 2007, "The Walking Dead takes place in our world, as if this stuff had started happening in October 2003 and continued from there. There will be smaller answers as things progress. That starts to get into the origin of all this stuff, and I think that's unimportant to the series itself. Was it like a plague or a rapture kind of thing? I think you should elaborate more on how people can turn into zombies without one biting you, or how this whole mess started in the first place. but it's nothing set in stone because I never plan on writing it. I may change my mind eventually." As to the cause of the zombie outbreak, Kirkman wrote, "I have ideas. Kirkman explained that going back to explain how the government originally collapsed ".doesn't interest me, for the time being. although there are some REALLY cool changes coming up in Issue 127. I'm in for the long haul, and Charlie Adlard is too. Also, if I suddenly start having a lot LESS fun, I may end it earlier, but I don't see that happening. I do plan on doing at least 300 issues, but if I'm having this much fun then I won't stop there. It just seemed like it needed the extra punch of him dying. I also wasn't planning on killing Allen, I loved Allen, until the issue he died in was being written. Originally, Hershel was going to lose a leg, not Allen, but I decided so much bad stuff had happened to Hershel already with losing his kids and all, having him then also lose a leg would seem unrealistic. But when I was writing Issue 18, I figured "these guys wouldn't just leave." So I had to change the ending. Dexter and Andrew were originally just going to leave the prison-and not try to kick everyone out. Yes, a few, but I can't mention some because they haven't happened yet. do you ever find yourself straying a bit from your plans but then eventually coming back on track?
You said that the book is plotted a long ways out. Basically, I'm saying this book looks like it will be around for a while. that's why I have such far reaching plans. I try to have at least 4 of those chunks planned, but there are times when a new chunk of issues is dropped in and things get pushed back. I'm at a point with the series where I plot in 24 issue chunks, loosely. I have a solid plot through Issue 200 and general ideas that could continue after that. Robert Kirkman's updated statement to the same question in Letter Hacks of Issue 104: so while I do have a road map-if a side road pops up on the horizon at the last minute, I don't hesitate to go that route knowing that I can eventually get back on the main road at a later date. That's how life is-we never know what's going to come next. I like to play things fast and loose, though. I pretty much write things on the go from issue to issue, but I follow a larger plot I've got mapped out for some time. I love them so much, but I love doing terrible things to them. I'm constantly thinking of new and horrible things that will happen to these characters. along the way I've come up with dozens of other things to do with the book that will keep it going and keep it interesting for years to come. When I started, I had mapped the book up to about where I am now, actually. Did you have a master plan from the very beginning or you're developing things "on the go"?Īs far as a master plan goes-I don't have one.
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