Letter From The Editor

I, like millions of other people, am completely obsessed with The Walking Dead.

First things first, WHO DID NEGAN KILL??

While I am anxiously awaiting the show’s October return and hoping it’s not Glenn (my favorite character), I have been entertaining myself by starting from the beginning of the comic series it’s based on. Earlier this week, I got to talk to comic editor Sean Mackiewicz, who’s coming to town along with TWD creator Robert Kirk-man for Amazing Hawaii Comic Con. The two of them will be participating in a panel on May 20, the first day of the weekend-long con, as well as hosting a booth filled with other artists from Kirkman’s company Skybound Entertainment.

You can read more about Mackiewicz’s role with The Walking Dead, what it’s like working with Kirkman and why he hopes it was Daryl Dixon on the other end of Negan’s bat here.

The fact that The Walking Dead has become as popular as it is (seriously, what other series has its very own talk show?) has always struck me as kind of peculiar. It’s extremely violent — I spend at least a couple minutes of each episode with my hands over my eyes — and it can get very bleak, but yet somehow, it’s seen huge mainstream success. Mackiewicz muses that it serves as a sort of catharsis, and I’ve also heard people theorize that it taps into some sort of general unrest in modern society, or even that because at its core, it’s about this makeshift family fighting for each other.

Maybe it’s all of that. I’m not really sure, but I just know that October can’t come soon enough.