Of course, while Robert Kirkman did try to strip down The Walking Dead and make it more about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, it wouldn’t be fair to just gloss over the fact that the large but abandoned metropolis of Atlanta is a setting the TV series explores early on.
It really helps to give The Walking Dead an edge over other zombie shows that are on TV or have aired on TV.
Robert Kirkman also told the Richmond Register he never thought either the comic series or the TV show would last.
While AMC’s version of Rick Grimes has him living in Georgia at the start of the series, The Walking Dead comic actually kicks off in Kentucky, where the Grimes family in the written world actually hails from.