Comic-Con is a crazy blur of activity when you’re trying to coordinate coverage, even with a team as good as the one we took this year. We did very well at dividing things up, but every now and then, you come up a little short-handed and you end up scrambling.

In our case, we found ourselves short on the TV side on Saturday night when we were offered a chance to interview the cast of “The Walking Dead,” and since I enjoyed the show, I jumped in to handle the conversations on-camera. Unfortunately, we found ourselves in the middle of what seemed to be pure chaos on the part of the publicists handling the event, and even though we showed up exactly when we were supposed to, from the moment we began, we were told that the event was already running late and everyone had to go.

Maddening, really. As we stood there, we watched them march Andrew Lincoln right by us, then Jon Bernthal, then Sarah Wayne Callies. All of them were hustled into waiting cars and whisked off to a dinner with Frank Darabont. Keep in mind, at this point, we hadn’t heard anything about the creative shuffle behind-the-scenes, and earlier in the day, at the “Walking Dead” panel, there had been no indication that things were about to change. It’s one thing if we’d just shown up at that spot and tried to wrangle some interviews without an invitation, but we were there because they asked us to be there, and yet the closest we got to most of the cast was to watch them walk away.

The only reason I got Norman Reedus to stop is because I worked with Norman on the “Masters Of Horror” episode “Cigarette Burns,” which John Carpenter directed. When Norman saw me, he walked over to say hello, and I asked if he’d be willing to jump in front of the camera for a few. The one cast member that the publicists actually brought over and actually formally presented to us to interview was Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on the show. We managed to wrangle one other interview that we’re still cutting, and we’ll put that up later in the week. For now, you can see Reedus embedded at the top of the story and here’s Yeun for you: