The Think Tank Birmingham. The smell of ink, comic books and sweat fill the air. It’s the British Comic Book Show and The Walking Dead is the star. I arrive around 2.30pm in time to catch a Q&A panel about Marvel Comics and its upcoming projects. I sneak out just before the end and I bump into Jonathan Ross where we share a quick chat about the Walking Dead and how excited he is to watch the show. Then it was back to signing Turf copies for JR so I meandered over to Charlie Adlard’s post, where he was amusing his Walking Dead fans with a handshake and a smile. What a guy. We spend a minute discussing the run down of our panel and then another talking about his band (Charlie’s a drummer). We agreed to reconvene in “20”. Physically I feel like an outsider at BICS, but mentally, I’m in my element. The only person in the entire vicinity, let alone the country, to have watched the first three episodes of the Walking Dead. Boy these cartoon aficionados have no idea what’s in store for them in Screening Room 1. Finally the time has come. I sit down at the table, microphone clipped on my shirt, bottle of water in hand. The room slowly begins to fill up…50…55…Charlie seems to be running late, 159…200, oh dear, still no sign of Charlie. Then like a zombie from his own illustrations, Charlie appears. The audience go wild, this man is like a god, no he is God to these people. He joins me on the table putting the minds of the attendees at rest that they didn’t come all this way to listen to some FX representative plug it’s latest show. The lights dim and an exclusive clip of the show is screened. House lights up…silence. “Well, what did you think?” I ask Charlie. “What can I say,” he says, “it’s going to be brilliant”.
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