Will TWD AMC be able to catch up to TWD comics?
Since Comics is publicized once a month while TV is aired at an average of 15 episodes per season,
Do you think TWD TV will ever catch up to the Comicsverse? and when it does, what will the TV version be after that, will they stop it and wait for 100 issues to be publicized again?
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I don't think the show is catching up as fast as people think. When the show started, the comics were starting with Volume 14. Right now, The show is adapting Volume 17, and the comics are right in the middle of Volume 26. I do think the comics should come out faster, not only 2 Volumes per year, since the show adapts approximately 4 Volumes per Season, except Season 1 and 2, which were adaptations of Volumes 1 and 2.
Its gonna catch up pretty soon, the comics go through intermittent periods where very little happens
Most likely. The show's at issue 100 right now, and if they go at the average speed of that they'll catch up pretty soon, which they might not as it took them to the Season 4 mid-season to get to issue 48, but another 2 and a half to do the 52 to get to 100. The average speed would put the show at the end of Season 9 when it reaches the current point in the comics, and 3 years would do another 36 issues, so I'd say the show will catch up around Season 12 (which it will probably reach), and issue ~200
I'm not entirely sure if the show would be going on that long to have it catch up.
Some volumes take an entire season, like Season 1 & 2 with Volumes 1 & 2, but the prison with Season 3 and 4A went through like 3-8. 4B was Volume 9 and 10, plus the start of 11, which was the focus of 5A along with the non-comic hospital storyline, then 12 and 13 got squished into 5B. Volume 14 got 6A and the first episode of 6B, 15 I think was almost entirely skipped, and 16 and most of 17 are 6B. Season 7A will likely have the rest of 17 and then 18, I imagine 7B is 19.
Season 8 I can them having 20 and 21 as 8A and 8B. If you know what's those volumes are about, I think it only makes sense this way.
Season 9 and beyond has like 5 volumes of content, so yeah.
I imagine if Kirkman does some more bi-weekly issues for things the comics will stay ahead, plus the show is always inventing new stuff that takes time.
I also have a feeling they'll end the show differently and probably before they end the comics. Though it's been awhile for me catching up in the comics it'd be cool to see the show end with the group losing to another more cohesive group, or maybe Negan wins.
In my opinion it'd be cool to see them switch the Negan storyline so that it doesn't end the same. Like maybe things don't go as planned and a lot of "infrastructure" is destroyed in the process of war. Forcing everyone to live like they did before the communities were built
Sorry for being random in my response
The same thing that happened with game of thrones will probably happen eventually.
I just added a spoiler tag, hope you don't mind.
I'm not sure if they would do that. It certainly be kind of interesting, and yeah. I don't know, the show hasn't done any radical changes lately, and that be a way different tangent. But we'll see. We'll see.
Theyre almost there already. How many story arcs are left in the comic? The Kingdom, The Whisperers?
You mean they surpass the books?
They actually brought this up once and said in 2014 they have enough ideas to go to season 12: http://www.hitfix.com/news/the-walking-dead-producers-have-story-plans-through-season-12
The community that Eugene's friend lives in could expand the communities' network even more, and with that, I expect even more trouble to arise.
I don't recall the source, but I am sure that Kirkman confirmed that the TV Series will end before the Comic Series. It could've been in the Letter Hacks and that's why I didn't find anything now.
Well the comics had a 3 year timeskip after All Out war. The show can show what happened in these 3 years
Im super behind. I only check in sporadically to see where they are. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Yeah me either but I'm just thinking the show can't last forever and maybe they wanna end it with a dramatic showdown rather than a slow progressive deterioration.
Also thanks for the spoiler. I thought of adding it in but this whole thread kinda seems spoilery
Yeah the plot twist is that Negan actually killed Rick and the show is already over.
that's what i read on someone's post here. they said tv will end at season 12.
Well no
I think Volume 15 was loosely adapted during the first episode of 6A? With Carter playing Nicholas's role trying to take over Alexandria and stuff, then we got No Way Out during the rest of 6A and first episode of 6B. I'm guessing the rest of Volume 15 was skipped on that time-skip between "No Way Out" and "The Next World".
I agree, I think Season 8 will be "All-Out War" and Season 9 will adapt the "A New Beginning" arc and they'll probably end the Season adapting Volume 24's ending with Alpha's "border".
They still have to go through "What Comes After", "March to War", the huge "All-Out War" and then the "A New Beginning" arc, which introduces a new threat and many things happen after ("Whispers Into Screams", "Life and Death", "No Turning Back"...). I think they still have some source material to work on before catching up.
No. Well not for at least 4 seasons if that... Here's my reasoning why.
It will be at least 1.5 seasons to reach All Out War - Maybe even 2 Seasons. AMC loves dragging out stories. For example the farm story line was 1 whole season for about 6 issues if im correct.
Then All Out War will be at least a season to 2 seasons long. Will they do a 3 year time skip afterwards? Then they have to build this new world. Build up to Whisperers, but knowing AMC they will almost defintely drag out the story.
Negan's reign will be for at least 3 seasons. By then there will be 36+ Issues of The Walking Dead and more as sometimes we get 2 issues a month occasionally.
They will have to do the time skip actually. To validate Carl's rapid ageing. Obviously the show is real time shot so it's hard to keep the realism of carls age. Season 6 is about 2/3 months long right? due to the 2 month skip... and season 6 is a whole year shooting in which Chandler ages.
If the show does catch up it won't go on forever so the comics will push back in front again if that happens.