Tobar said:
The show is a lot better written than the comics.
LOL. Yeah, no.
Some of my favorite characters in the comics are just downright annoying and unlikable in the TV show. Everyone is really two-dimensional and pointless. In the comic you can actually grow attached to these characters and feel shocked and sad when they die. From all accounts, everyone I hear talk about the show is rooting for the deaths of the characters who end up dying long before they bite it. People couldn't wait for Dale and Shane to die. The major death of season three (vague not to give spoilers) is one people have been begging for since the middle of season two. Oh yeah, and T-Dawg. One of the most pointless characters in a tv show. Obviously just the token black guy who they could finally get rid of thanks to Michonne's arrival. I don't even feel like I need spoiler tags for that one, because no one even cares about that guy.
The comic does a far better job of pulling the story forward, a far better job of growing the characters, a far better job of building their relationships. In the comics there are moments that are downright gut wrenching, because you grow to really care about these characters. In the tv show things just kind of happen. What it tries to pull off as suspense just builds boredom. I really have a hard time caring what happens to these characters, because they just aren't interesting. Michonne is a good example of the tv show ruining interesting characters. Michonne is practically a mute who just glares and tries to look suspicious about everything, instead of the fucked up batshit crazy badass character she was in the books. She goes through some of the actions the comic character may have tried to pull had they been put in the same situations, but she does it as a boring 2D cutout.
I'm not even sure what in the tv show you could possible be considering good writing? Rick's we are the walking dead speech from the comics was absolutely fantastic. Nothing in the tv show comes anywhere near to touching that. It meanders on and hashes over the most mundane and uninteresting things and moves forward at a painful crawl. The whole encounter with the prisoners was much more interesting in the book. The whole Woodbury scenario was much more interesting. The tv show really has nothing on the books. They do start to suck as the issues get somewhere past the fifties, they pick up again every now and then, but the prison/Woodbury stuff was pretty great.