If seasons continue to pick and choose which plot points to pull from the page, we may see the pace quicken.
Kirkman’s assurance to ComicBook.com that he doesn’t plan on letting the show reveal his comic ending means that we may end up with two stellar but very separate versions of the zombie apocalypse.
Still, it’s not impossible that the show will catch up to the source material.
Viewers have seen episodes go in wildly different directions than what they may have read, and some of the biggest characters still alive on the show are either dead in the comics or never existed in the comics.