The Walking Dead Creator Explains Why Walkers Aren't Called 'Zombies'

✖ The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman explains why the comic books — but not the television series — use the term"zombies." In earlier issues of Kirkman's comic saga influenced by the works of Night of the Living Dead filmmaker and zombie godfather George A. Romero, characters call the flesh-eating undead"zombies," more commonly using the nicknames"roamers,""lurkers," and"walkers.

"I started the book not really using [the term 'zombie']. I was dancing around it mostly. I think Glenn says it a couple times but those were mostly slip-ups. Then I came up with the 'lurkers' and 'roamers' terminology," Kirkman explains."After a while though, it felt silly to just keep using those over and over.

Can he explain why they haven't put the show out to pasture yet?

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