the G-man wrote:
[...] the writers were smart to establish early on that the TV series won't slavishly follow the comic book. [...]
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That depends on what you mean by "slavishly." Darabont and Hurd have consistently stated that the comic series provides the roadmap that the television series will travel, and that the tv series will take some logical detours off of that path but will
always return to the path of the comics.