AMC’s much anticipated “Fear the Walking Dead,” is supposed to premier sometime in August (no…no firm date yet.) But insiders are revealing lots of juicy tidbits about “The Walking Dead” spinoff.

Creator Robert Kirkman says the story will take place while Rick Grimes is in a coma. And he confirms there won’t be an origin story.

Kirkman said, “As far as digging down to actually find the smoking gun and realizing what the cause is…it’s really unimportant to the overall story.”

Hmm. Maybe it’s unimportant to him, but comic book geeks like me LOVE origin stories. Oh well…onward to all the Things (we know so far) that will be different in the spinoff:

1. The walkers on FTWD will be a bit fresher and more “human” than the hideously decayed zombies in the original series.
2. FTWD will be shot with digital cameras while TWD is shot with 16mm film.
3. FTWD will take place in a big city — Los Angeles — while TWD takes place in a suburb of Atlanta.
4. There will be lots more chaos and violence in FTWD.
5. FTWD centers on families uniting to survive while TWD is a bunch of mostly random strangers banding together.

“Fear the Walking Dead” is slated to run for at least five or six seasons and “The Walking Dead” will run for a few more seasons, too. (No one is saying how many.) The comic book, as always, will continue.

Watch for Zombies. I’ll see you next week,
Bobby