"I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy"
- Robert Kirkman
About this Quote
Robert Kirkman is sharing his viewpoint on the popular television show, The Walking Dead. He is stating that he likes light-hearted superhero tales over the dark and extreme themes of The Walking Dead. He is indicating that he discovers the program to be too intense and also dark for his taste. He is also suggesting that he prefers stories that are a lot more uplifting and inspiring. This quote mirrors his individual choice for tales that are a lot more light-hearted and also amusing. It likewise shows that he is open to trying brand-new points, yet he is a lot more comfortable with tales that are a lot more according to his very own passions.
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"
"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical"
"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement"
"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig"
"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me"
"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness"
"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others"
"I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership"
