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One of my favorite comic books of the last few years, Robert Kirkman's zombie opus The Walking Dead, may be coming to AMC.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cable channel has acquired the rights to the series, which follows a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. They've also attached Frank Darabont,  writer-director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, to write, direct and produce.

It's hard not to be excited about the cable channel that gave us Mad Men and Breaking Bad doing a TV series of one of my favorite comics with a writer-director who has adapted works by Stephen King that are arguably even better than the source material.

For those of you who haven't read The Walking Dead -- don't be scared off (literally or figuratively) by the zombies. I'm not a big zombie nut either, but the series is transcendently good graphic storytelling that, like all good horrorfiction, concentrates much more on humanity than the supernatural.

When I interviewed Warren Ellis a few years ago he was working on an original series for AMC called Dead Channel which I'm not sure went anywhere or may still be in limbo.

This makes up a bit for that disappointment.