Walking Dead Thread ***SPOILERS***

[Benton]

(10-19-2015, 07:14 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: This is where my concern is. The next 26 issues deal with their issues with Negan. Based on recent pacing, that might be 1 season. So we're talking being on issue 127 to start season 8. So October of 2017. At that point, the comics will be on issue 171. The comic is currently at issue 147, so the show is only roughly through half of comic material that is out there. At the end of this season, the comic's lead will shrink from 70 comics to 53 comics. By the end of season 7, it could be down to 39 comics. Issue 150 is suppose to be "huge" and game changing. It could be the end of season 8 if they choose to do comics 127-150. That means we're talking about the comics only being 25 issues ahead of the show.

I'm not sure when the show will end, but it will eventually catch up in season 9. The only way it won't is if they SPOILER.... cover the 3 years that pass between issues 126 and 127.

9-10 seasons is a pretty good run for most shows. By that point, actors are (typically) wanting to go in other directions, creative staff starts to run out of new ideas (which I get is a little different since it's based off of comics, but still), and some people are just older.