The Walking Dead TV series isn’t going to run out of source material in the near future. While it wanders back and forth it terms of its faithfulness to the mega-popular Image comic series that spawned it, the show has only covered around 50 percent of what’s been in print, and new issues are still coming out.
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Still, creator Robert Kirkman can see the finish line for the comics, even if it’s still off in the distance a bit. He recently told Entertainment Weekly that he had a definitive end in mind for the comic books and has known what it would be for more than a year:
"About a year or two ago, I finally nailed down exactly what I want the ending to be. So now I’ve kind of got two trails of story going in my head. One working to where I’m at very far into the future, and one working from the end backwards. When those two stories meet, then I’ll know exactly how long the story is. I’m rapidly approaching that point."
Fans of The Walking Dead should take heart, though, that Kirkman used the phrase “very far into the future” in that quote. The end for Rick Grimes and company may be coming, but you can bet it’s arriving at the pace of a walker.