Tonight’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead is an interesting one: along with the midseason finale that preceded it two months ago, it’s one of the rare times that the TV writers (in this case, executive producer and comic book writer Robert Kirkman) have elected to adapt the comics very, very faithfully.In this case, tonight’s episode–titled “After”–is an almost word-for-word adaptation of The Walking Dead #49 and #50 from Image Comics, Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard.There are a few key differences–some of Michonne’s Playboy-exclusive origin story is incorporated, too, and of course there are bits of the story that don’t sync–Tyreese is alive on TV and was dead by this point in the comics, for instance, so they had to replace one familiar scene from the comic with another character. Rick’s missing hand and other blade-related injuries were what made him sick and exhausted in the comics, whereas they elected to go a different way on TV and so here it’s just that The Governor beat him mostly to death.In any event, we figured it could be fun and instructive to compare and contrast a little…
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