Feeling The Walking Dead Withdrawal? Check Out Why Robert Kirkman Loves Rachel Rising

Two years ago almost to the day, Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, a comic book series published by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment (and the basis for the hit TV series which has its fourth season finale tonight) shared a preview of Terry Moore’s Rachel Rising with his readers in the pages of the veteran series’ ninety-fifth issue.The practice wasn’t uncommon for Kirkman or Image at the time; The Walking Dead, just starting to really catch fire on TV, was going from a hit in the context of the creator-owned comic book industry to an unmitigated phenomenon as the show’s second season got everybody talking, and so Kirkman was using valuable real estate in the back of his comic to promote Image Comics titles he believed in. John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew got such a treatment, and it helped make the book one of Image’s most-read comics.But Rachel Rising wasn’t an Image Comics title. Moore self-publishes, and always has. So…what made it a title that Robert Kirkman felt the need to show some love?