Could future seasons of 'Walking Dead' involve an alien invasion? Creator Robert Kirkman reveals he lied to get his comic published [VIDEO]

Fans of The Walking Dead graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman might know this, but the creator originally sold his comic to publishers by adding an alien invasion element to the story. That said, Kirkman recently revealed that this storyline could easily be worked into the ending of his comic series and therefore makes its way into the AMC television series, too! Is this something we'd like to see happen?

"I said, 'Oh, I forgot to tell you that this is actually a big setup for an alien invasion." See, the whole zombie plague was a virus engineered by an alien race as a prelude to invasion and colonization," Kirkman told his publisher after he was turned down at first. "After all, if you want to wipe out a world's dominant species, there's nothing like zillions of man-eating, hard-to-kill reanimated corpses to thin out the human herd. Kirkman claimed that he would be laying hints about the alien element throughout the seemingly straightforward zombie narrative - I can't believe I just typed that - so that the twist, like all good twists, would make you look back on everything that came before in an entirely different light."

Although Kirkman admitted that he made this alien invasion element up just to get his work published, he hasn't completely forgotten about it. Do you think he'll bring this idea to life in the final pages of his comic or do you think he'll start even sooner than that? Perhaps he won't even use it and is just teasing us with this new development.