10 Reasons B-List Comics Make Better Adaptations Than The A-List
2. Unpredictability: The Walking Dead
"This life now, You kill or you die... or you die and you kill."
The Walking Dead is everybody's favourite exercise in stress and panic. The long-running comic by Robert Kirkman has been harrowing comic readers for a long time but, initially, not everybody knew the show was an adaptation.
Image comics are famous for their less bombastic dramas, and The established B-comic outfit used to be straight up indie, with rockstar writers and artists and edgy material. The Walking Dead is a perfect example of an Image comic though, and the edgy material combined with an episodic format always made it prime TV adaptation material.
Following the 'nobody is safe' vibe, The Walking Dead is not only gorier than any A-List comic adaptation, it has arguably the largest roster of beloved characters. Given how long it took Marvel to set up The Avengers, this is some feat.
Anybody can bite the big one at any time in this horrific struggle for life and it is famous for not only horrifying audiences but immersing them so much that the viewer's own morality becomes compromised with the progression of the seasons. Before Walking Dead, few people ever thought they'd cheer a child and his mother being torn apart by zombies... but there you go.