Even if there is, how can he ever expect to make it there? Rick begins to wonder if there is a light at the end of the tunnel his life has become.
More is learned about the zombies that now out-number us 5000 to 1, but when it comes to some things, it's better not to know. Not a single airplane has flown overhead - and if the outbreak were limited to North America, one would expect that other countries would continue flying planes, even if it were just surveillance flights monitoring the outbreak.Īfter the ordeal Rick has endured last issue, he sets out to find safer shelter.
However, it is telling that in the time that has elapsed over the course of the series - at least 3-4 years - there have been no signs of life on any continent. Google Map of all places that are said or implied to be infectedĪll we know is that everything from Georgia to Washington is gone, and although it hasn't been dealt with at any length, the clear assumption on the part of the characters is that the crisis is so widespread that they couldn't possibly get to a place that wasn't infested with zombies. Jenner would only call the outbreak an "extinction event" if the whole world was being consumed. If the epidemic was limited to the US, or the US and Europe, or the US, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, it would be terrible, but it wouldn't make an epidemiologist say that the human race would soon be extinct. Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here, but somebody somewhere.Īndrea: What part of " everything is gone" do you not understand?ĭr. That is the only way to explain Jenner's statement here:ĭr. However, it is pretty clear that the infection has spread worldwide. Macon, Georgia (video games and television show) San Francisco, California (Christa and Omid's hometown) Las Vegas, Nevada (where Christa and Omid from the video game were when the outbreak began) Jacksonville, Florida (Tyreese's hometown)Ĭolumbus, Ohio (Deanna's hometown - she says she was congresswoman for the 15th congressional district of Ohio, which is Columbus and environs)īarcelona, Spain (setting of the one-off comic, The Walking Dead: The Alien)įort Lauderdale, Florida (hometown of Kenny in the video games) New York, New York (Philadelphia is only 75 miles from NYC, so if New York was safe, we can assume Dave and Tony would have headed there instead of Georgia, which is 700 miles from Philadelphia) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Dave and Tony met each other fleeing Philadelphia)ĭave: We met on I-95 coming out of Philly. More places that have been stated or implied to be overrun:Ĭynthiana, Kentucky (Rick's hometown in the comics) It is very possible that the ocean is not an effective long-term barrier to walkers, if they could travel across the bottom or float, which makes the survival of other countries even less likely. massive international military efforts to destroy all the walkers.Radio broadcasts received from foreign networks.Planes flying over that would indicate air travel has survived.Foreign countries sending aid to survivors.Over the course of the series, the characters notice no: However, there is good reason to suspect a worldwide epidemic in the comics. That stuff if I had to do it all over again." But the fact that France is mentioned in that episodeĪnd other things like that, I probably would have steered away from
It's something that's going to be fun to explore in the "I've beenĬareful in the comic series to not say what's happening in other parts "I probably would have changed that stuff," he says. Indeed, the comic's creator is on record as saying that he purposely is trying to leave out information about the scope of the epidemic: In the comics, there is not definitive proof of what is happening in the rest of the world. The success of 'Fear' shows that there's certainly some appetite for Plans for that], I certainly couldn't say that here," he teased. When asked whether we might see more companion shows set on otherĬontinents like Europe or Asia, Kirkman demurred, "If I did [know of The creator has said that future shows set on other continents are possible, lending further credence to the idea that the plague of walkers is worldwide: Suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end. While our people were bolting out the doors and committing They were the last ones to hold out as far as On the show, we know that the infection has spread as far as Europe, with a heavy implication that it is worldwide (which is probably the case anyway by the same reasoning as the comics).