In a stunning move, Robert Kirkman has decided to end his industry-changing series just shy of a landmark issue #200, and after soliciting future issues.

Kirkman wrote: “I’m going to miss it as much as you will, if not more so. It breaks my heart that I had to end it. and we have to move on, but I just love this world too much to stretch things out until it doesn’t live up to what I want it to be.”

Issue #193 will be a 71-page epic.