How Walking Dead’s Creator Learned To Break His Own #1 Rule: “I Don’t Regret It At All”

According to Robert Kirkman, the longevity of The Walking Dead, as well as the strength of characters like Rick Grimes and Negan, afforded him the creative freedom to go against his instinct that "every issue of a comic should have...a beginning, middle, and end," in order to craft issues devoted almost entirely to pivotal, centerpiece conversations.