Fans of The Walking Dead villain Negan will be happy to know that the character's mysterious past will soon be revealed thanks to a spinoff comic book story.

The Negan origin story will be serialized in the new Image+ magazine, which makes its debut in May. Each of the first 12 issues of the magazine will feature a four-page chapter detailing Negan's rise to power in the world of the Walking Dead. This story will be handled by the same team behind the main Walking Dead comic - writer/creator Robert Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard.Image+ is an advertorial magazine that will be published alongside the monthly Diamond previews catalog. Each issue will feature a mix of comic book previews, interviews, news announcements and original stories. Image+ will be included free with copies of Previews, and it can also be purchased separately for $1.99. There's no word yet on whether the Negan story will reprinted elsewhere.“Comics are exciting, and it does them and their creators a disservice to give them rote, by-the-numbers coverage. I cut my teeth on video game magazines before writing about comics professionally, and I'm excited to push that experience in a new direction alongside our Sasha Head, our Sales & Marketing Production Designer," said Image's Branding manager David Brothers in the company's press release. "From my perspective, comics have always been cool, and this is a chance to show everyone exactly why I feel that way.”This Negan story isn't the only Walking Dead spinoff fans can look forward to in the near future. The creative team behind The Private Eye, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Marcos Martin, are working on a standalone spinoff of their own. We asked Kirkman about the state of the project last month, and he told us, "One of the cool things about Panel Syndicate is that their release schedule can be very flexible because of the online nature of it. There's not any kind of big production that factors into it. We'll be able to market and release that in a pretty shocking and startling and very cool way."In the meantime, fans can look forward to the imminent debut of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan on the Walking Dead TV series.

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