The Walking Dead: 10 Big Differences Between The Comics & TV Show

5. Kirkman Has No Explanation For The Walkers

The zombie apocalypse gets explained towards the end of The Walking Dead's first season. The Centre For Disease Control, or CDC, is the first port of call for Rick's group of survivors, figuring that if anybody knew what was going on, the government agency would. On arriving at their headquarters in Atlanta, however, they just find despondent scientist Dr Edwin Jenner, who has an exit plan sorted out. A plan which involves locking the rest of the survivors inside the CDC with him, and then blowing it up. That's because, to his mind, there's no way of curing the zombie plague €“ because everybody in the world is infected, and as soon as they die, they return as a shambling flesh-eater. The characters are the walking dead, see? The CDC has never appeared in the comic books, even to this day. There's been over a hundred issues so far, with the TV show up to about the seventy mark, and there's no sign of the group retracing their steps to meet up with the comic book Dr Jenner. Which also means that, so far, there's been no explanation for the outbreak, with the survivors more focussed on not dying.