The Welcome to the Walking Deadcast. A podcast dedicated to the show, The Walking Dead.

Hey everybody, welcome to our podcast. I'm

I'm Jason and I'm Karen. And I'm Charlie. And this is the Walking Dead

Cast episode 7. This week we're not going to have a dead cast episode 7.

This week we're not going to have a dead cast top 5 or this weekend zombies because we're

dedicating this whole episode to walking dead artist Charlie Adlard and we have a special

guest today who's kind of a Charlie Adlard expert. Actually okay it's Charlie

Adler he's on today. Hi, Charlie.

Hello. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Good. So Charlie, he's been the

artist on the Walking Dead since almost the beginning since issue 7 which was way back in 2004 and he's also had a long and storied career.

He's done Judge Dread, X-files, the establishment from Wildstorm, and a bunch of others.

And the first thing that I wanted to know, Charlie, is what is it that you especially like about working on the Walking Dead?

Oh, what do I like about it? Well, I like about the fact that it is, you know, same as Robert really, that it's an ongoing saga.

And obviously I wouldn't have lasted 77 issue, not 77 because that would be the complete run.

70 issues if it wasn't for the fact that it hadn't kept me hooked for that long myself as a fan.

So... me hooked for that long myself as a fan.

So, and of course it's not the concept of zombies

that really hooked me and it was the characters,

you know, and soon as I read the script I knew,

you know, for issue seven that was, I knew that Robert had was on to something

a bit more interesting than your average horror comic. So, and I just kind of ended up going along for the ride.

Yeah, I'm amazed actually. It's pretty rare these days that an artist will stay on a book that long.

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