David Anders, Robert Buckley and series star Rose McIver join showrunners Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero in talking about the process of adapting the comic to television, and answering fan questions.
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As you can see, the similarities and differences between the series and the comics on which it’s based is a recurring theme in these conversations.
“I think the sense of humor and sarcasm that I saw in Gwen’s voice when I read the comics, that very much feels like it’s still apparent in the series,” McIver told ComicBook.com during an interview at Comic Con International: San Diego last month. “I think the general concept of her struggling with her identity as a zombie we can definitely feel in the show, and I think Diane is our zombie expert who’s been able to bring the genre side of it all to the show.”
“ I think what we carried over was the big idea of the comic book which is this woman in her mid-20s becomes a functioning zombie and when she eats brains she inherits the memories,” showrunner Rob Thomas told us at Comic Con. “Even in the comic book she tries to solve these outstanding issues of the dead and we play that in the TV series as well. What I needed was a story mechanism that allowed her to do it every week. I wanted very closed cases and working in the police morgue gave me a dead, murdered body each week which made it easier to adapt as a TV show.”
