Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln, Chad Coleman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert on Season 4

This past weekend at San Diego Comic Con International, ComicBook.com had an opportunity to sit down at a small press roundtable with a number of the stars of AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead.Based on the Image Comics/Skybound comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead  will launch its fourth season this October on AMC; last year it became the first cable series ever to post, over the course of its season, the best ratings of any show on TV including broadcast hits like The Big Bang Theory and NCIS.The series is perhaps best known for its maxim that “no one is safe,” something we discuss a bit below.Kirkman, along with the showrunner Scott Gimple and series villain David Morrissey (the Governor), joined us at the roundtable for a discussion on the upcoming season. You can check it out below, with reporters’ questions in bold and italic and the answers labeled by speaker.You can also see our previous roundtable with Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira and Greg Nicotero here and our interview with Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple and David Morrissey here. A conversation with Scott Wilson, Steven Yeun and Lauren Cohan is here.Overall without getting into spoilers, what gets you charged up about this particular season?Andrew Lincoln: I alwaays knew that it would be fresh and exciting just by the history of the last three years. They always seem to change it up; the show moves on becuase there’s a cast change pretty reugualrly and there’s a location change as well. It’s sort of inherent in the nature of the show.But when I read the first script I was really surprised and thrilled Selfishly and for personal reasons, where the put Rick at the beginning of the season is nowhere near what I anticipated and for that reason alone, I was very very happy.