Robert Kirkman talks Walking Dead season 6

Creator Robert Kirkman confirmed at New York Comic-Con that Fear the Walking Dead Season 2 will pick up more or less where Season 1 left off. “I’m watching cuts and I go, ‘I gotta watch the next one!’ I just hope that’s how everyone else feels”. And while Kirkman was light on plot details about the new episodes, he did tease a few broad strokes. The comic book scribe also talked about Lennie James’s return as Morgan, what his favorite zombie kills are, and the future of Fear the Walking Dead, which just aired its first season finale.

Viewers will see more of Rick interacting with “these people who live in this safe place, who have this misconception of how the world works now”.

And of course Morgan is finally back.

Robert Kirkman on Maggie: “Maggie’s character is evolving, like all the others, but she’s really become very assertive”. She’s certainly bridging the gap between the Alexandrians and Rick’s group. “The Carol in the show, which is a much better character let’s be honest, actually is made stronger by all the more awful things that happen to her in the show. But I think to myself, if I was just a fan, what would be cool to me?”

“TWD” companion series “Fear the Walking Dead” ended with our characters contemplating taking to the ocean to escape the zombie outbreak, and Kirkman promised that there would be plenty of water-zombie action in season two, but cautioned that we shouldn’t expect the whole season to be set at sea. They’re like, ‘Well, that was a lot of fun.

Norman [Reedus] is jerk.

Kirkman was asked if there was anyone in the comic or TV show he regretted killing off. “I regret all of them and none of them at the same time”, he said. “We don’t want to work with him anymore”.

But next year, I’ll say, “It was all me”.

When asked, “How has the book changed?” referring to The Walking Dead comic, he answered, “I try not to change anything”.

“This is going to be the most intense season of “The Walking Dead” yet”, Kirkman said of season six, which premieres on October. 11.

Unfortunately, Kirkman is a very jovial man in interviews, which often means it’s hard to tell where the line of teaser and joke begins and ends, something he played with incessantly during his panel talk.