Could It Seriously Take 'The Walking Dead' 20 Seasons to Pass the Comic Book?
The Walking Dead has been on TV forever, but it's been in comic book shops forever-ever. Since October 2013, the monthly series has run 166 issues, or 27 paperback volumes. It's been on AMC since October 2010—seven seasons, 99 episodes. Sunday's Season 7 finale took it up to #115 in the comic's plot.
So, like Game of Thrones before it, the televised Walking Dead will catch up to the print Walking Dead soon enough, right? Not according to creator/writer Robert Kirkman, who's also an executive producer with a few scripts under his belt. He tells The Hollywood Reporter:
"I don't know if anyone sat down to do the math, but if the show is gaining on the comic book, it's at a very slow pace. We're expanding storylines so every now and then we zip through the comic book, and then we slow down for a while and add a bunch of stuff that's not in the comics. There's not any danger of that happening in any way."
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