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General Comics Chat: Walking Dead Comic vs TV Series

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    Really getting into The Walking Dead Tv show but have never read any of the comic/books, so anyone in the know how does it stack up? which is best? is it close to the source material?
    Zombie comics have never really being my cup of chai but I'm now quite tempted to take a look.
    Should I invest or just watch the show? even though there seems to be more adverts than program on FX, at least one commercial break every 45 seconds, it's quite tedious.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2010
     
    I heard that FX were running Walking Dead without adverts! Perhaps that's a late night repeat or something...

    Though the TV series is shaping up to be pretty great I would definitely recommend the books over telly. The TV show has a slightly different feel to it, a bit slow and more compassionate than the source material.
    The comic seems to be more shocking and brutal.
    It does seem like, thankfully, the TV series is going to go slightly in it's own direction (it'd be a bit pointless, and boring, just having a word for word remake)... so who knows if viewers will even get to experience a whole series set in the prison, villains like the Guvnor and horrible, shocking deaths of lead characters....
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    More shocking & brutal eh? A series set in prison? If you are trying to intrigue me then it's working, yeah I could give that a go.
    You are right the first episode had no adverts but friday nights was chock full of them, almost non stop in fact but what I've come to expect from FX being a Dexter fan.

    POSS SPOILER ALERT: Oh yeah, not being a zombie survival expert or anything, but wouldn't you have at least tried to drive that tank? Surely the ultimate Zombie Apocalypse mode of transport.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010
     
    Didn't work out for the two soldiers in the tank though, did it ? ;-)

    I'm enjoying the TV show. My girlfriend thinks its well slow, but I suppose the comics are too, initially. its just that you can read a comic quicker than you can watch a TV show. TV is a different medium and its taking time to establish the core cast, most of whom we've just been introduced to. Stopping to smell the roses isn't a bad thing in a show like this, particularly when death isn't far away. The adverts are annoying, but this is what TV is like in the USA, five, ten minutes of show and then a bunch of ads. Its a horrible import to British TV where traditionally you'd go 20 minutes at a time without ads.
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    Having now seen the fourth episode I think it's fairly safe to say that there's enough differences between them to satisfy those who read the comic. The writers have used the framework but dressed it in some (not all) new clothes. But I think I can see where the sixth episode will finish.

    As to the adverts ~ these days you're lucky if a TV programme goes 20 minutes before a break. A lot of UK shows are written/made with the possibility of a sale to the US and therefore have a break in plot every 10 ~ 12 minutes or so. Ever wondered why Dr Who, Merlin, etc are 40 minutes long?
    Shows from the US are getting shorter ~ the standard hour long show actually runs 40 minutes. Watch US shows from the Sixties and you get a running time of 50 minutes. The Big Bang Theory is about 21 minutes at a push as are most animated shows.

    Of all the UK terrestial channels Five is the worst for adverts. And as I mentioned Five ~ they recently showed a classic Disney short Lonesome Ghosts. It should run 8 or 9 minutes. Five showed a version that lasted just over three minutes. Frightening.
    • CommentAuthorBrigantian
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
     
    Love the collected volumes of Walking Dead and loving the show. I don't think it has a slow pace as such, I think it's just that we're too used to fast paced shows these days. As for adverts, that's what Sky+ is for.
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    And the fifth (out of six) takes the first series down a radically different route from the comic. Seriously, anybody with even the slightest reservations about the adaptation should give the show a chance.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2010
     
    I've not read the book, but I'm enjoying the series, so to anyone not making the comparison I'd say give it a go.
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    Im waiting for the show to finish so I can watch it all in one go (i.e. I have no free time at all due to uni work, sigh), and have been meaning to read the books, but have been looking forward to the show for a while just for Andrew Lincoln... and since Dead Set proved the format could work on TV...

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