Negan To Be Ever-Present, Constant Threat In The Walking Dead Season 7

While promoting his new Outcast series, Robert Kirkman has been doing a lot of talking about The Walking Dead's season six finale cliffhanger. It's the hottest topic in pop culture this summer so it's no surprise so many outlets have been popping questions to him about it.

While most of the questions result in Kirkman defending the finale, saying that he stands by it and hopes fans return for what he promises will be a great seventh season, one recent interview saw him explain what exactly it is about the new season which will be so great.

"One of the side effects that I'm upset about is that people aren't talking about Jeffrey Dean Morgan enough," Kirkman explains to Uproxx. "I think that he is absolutely amazing as Negan. I think that his presence in that finale adds so much to the show. I know people don't like the cliffhanger aspect of it, but I like to think that everything up to that moment was pretty amazing, and people were digging it. I think people are discounting the fact that Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Negan are in the show now, so you're going to be seeing stuff like that pretty much every episode of season seven. Not necessarily cliffhangers. I don't want to worry people, but Negan is going to be an ever-present, constant threat that is going to change everything moving forward. And maybe I've said things like that before, but I promise you, Negan is going to be different. Season seven is going to be really cool. I couldn't be more excited about it."

Kirkman is also standing by the choices already made for season seven. The writer claims that what we see in the early episodes of the season won't have been effected by the fan reaction to the cliffhanger because by the time the season six finale aired, the writers had already blown through the season seven premiere. "When people were watching the finale in April, we were already many, many episodes beyond that," Kirkman says.

The Walking Dead returns for its seventh season in October. Expect a trailer to spawn at San Diego Comic Con in October.