Shane Walsh (The Walking Dead)
Shane Walsh was created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, the writer and original artist of "The Walking Dead" comic book series. The character first appeared in the first issue of the comic book series in October 2003, but was expanded upon greatly in the television show adapted from the comics in 2010. As a result, Shane lives much longer in the chronology of the story in the show than he does in the comics. Kirkman described the comic book version of Shane's character as a short and quick "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" arc compared to that of his counterpart in the television series. Kirkman said he preferred the show's version of Shane and that the differences between the two versions of the character illustrate the ability to explore and evolve elements from the comic book in different ways on the show.
Double Take Comics
All comic book series published by Double Take were inspired by and set in an alternate reality of "Night of the Living Dead". Jemas originally also considered creating comics on "XCOM", "BioShock" and "Civilization", three video game franchises owned by Take-Two Interactive, but could not come to terms with the respective game studios. He went "Night of the Living Dead" instead, seeing that the intellectual property was in the public domain, and because he felt like zombies were popular at the time. Jemas planned on distributing the comics digitally, through ComiXology and Madefire, and produce print versions later on.