'The Walking Dead' comics are going to be released in color for the first time starting in October

• "The Walking Dead" comics will be released in color for the first time starting October 7.
• Robert Kirkman made the announcement during his Skybound Xpo event.
• Each issue will feature a deep dive into the comic featuring some of Kirkman's hand-written original versions of the plot from his long-awaited "The Cutting Room Floor."

"The Walking Dead" comics are going to be released in color for the first time starting in October.

Creator Robert Kirkman made the announcement during Skybound Xpo, a virtual convention celebrating the company.

"Coming in October, I'm very excited about this, we have a thing that we are launching called, 'The Walking Dead Deluxe,'" said Kirkman.

"We're going to be re-presenting the single issues of 'Walking Dead' in full color, colored by the amazing Dave McCaig. We're going to have new covers by Dave Finch, Arthur Adams, [and] Julian Totino Tedesco."

"The Walking Dead" ended its original comic run in July 2019 with issue No. 173.

The first new issue will be available October 7. Afterwards, two issues will be released monthly.

Kirkman said this is a project McCaig has been working on in secret for the past four years.

In addition, each issue will include pieces of Kirkman's long-awaited "The Cutting Room Floor," behind-the-scenes looks at the creator's original ideas for the comics that show alternate deaths and story lines.

"Most exciting, for me, is we're finally going to do the fabled 'Cutting Room Floor,'" Kirkman said of what fans will be able to find in these issues. "This is something that's been the bane of my existence at every panel I've done for the last, I don't know, eight years."

"It was a book that we were going to release that was going to publish my single issue hand-written plots for the comic and I was going to analyze my initial plots and kind of point out a lot of things that changed along the way," he explained.

"There are some character deaths that weren't planned. There are some characters living that weren't planned," Kirkman said. "There are some different plots that I had written out and eventually decided not to do."

Kirkman hinted there would be "some other surprises along the way" including the return of Charlie Adlard, who illustrated much of the original run of "TWD," for some covers. Some of Tony Moore's covers will also be reimagined.

The announcement of "TWD" comics in color follow Kirkman's recent release of spin-off comic, "Negan Lives!", in July. All proceeds for that issue go directly to comic-book shops.