Manganiello complimented the comic book without reading it or knowing just how graphic it got.

AndJoe Manganiellohas seen some things.

“I said, ‘Oh, this is amazing.’

TRUE BLOOD, Joe Manganiello, ‘Hopeless’

Joe Manganiello on ‘True Blood’.John P. Johnson/HBO/Courtesy Everett Collection

And then I saw them the next day and they said, ‘Did you like my comic?’

I said, ‘Of course, it was amazing.

You know, you put so much work into it.’

I didn’t read it, but I went on and on about how great it was.”

Then he finally read it.

Yes," he said.

“I was like, ‘Oh, I love it.

It was so great.’

He was like, ‘You did!?’

I’m like, ‘Yeah!

Didn’t read it.

Then… that’s what I get.”

“I thought there was so much left on the table for me,“Manganiello told Cohen.

“I really felt like there was a lot that was left unexplored.”