The Walking Dead: where to start reading
Adapts The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at Vol 1: Days Gone Bye.
Season one broadly adapts the first volume, introducing the core survivors, while adding show-only characters and a new final stretch.
Season 1 leaves off at the end of book one. Start here:
Vol 2: Miles Behind Us
Faithful here
The show stays close to the book here, with nothing major changed, cut, or invented.
The early seasons follow the comic's overarching plot fairly closely while slowing the pacing and adding show-only characters. From roughly the middle seasons on, the show forges its own identity and diverges heavily, though it keeps hitting landmark comic beats out of their original order.
Rate it from where you are. No account, and nothing here says a word about what happens next.
