Andrew Lincoln

I like crying a lot on film, but not necessarily in public,” said Andrew Lincoln in a special conversation at the HFPA's Comic-Con lounge yesterday. “So when I finished the (Hall H) panel yesterday, it was very emotional directly afterward.

With 17 million mesmerized Americans watching Sunday’s season 7 debut, The Walking Dead continue to post scary numbers – close to its all time high rating and worthy of the biggest show on television. Credit the mammoth cliffhanger with which the show’s writers tormented fans in the months since the end of Season 6: who would Neegan dispatch? The latest addition to the show’s cast of characters, played by Jeffery Dean Morgan, is, as Andrew Lincoln told us, a “charismatic, brilliant, brutal psychotic” and that may be why it’s so hard to avert your eyes from his consummate cruelty.

Once again the dead are walking the earth – especially the real estate around the San Diego Covention Center. Zombies are always a mainstay at Comic-Con and even though the popular sidebars Walker Stalker Fan Fest and the Walking Dead Escape at the Petco baseball stadium were scrapped this year, hideously disfigured brain-eaters are still among the most popular cosplay costumes.