Is anybody else excited for the new season of iZombie? I know I am. With the lineup up of DC television shows this fall fans will never have a dull moment – The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham, and DC Vertigo’s iZombie. I’m pretty sure we’ll do some podcast at some point about all of these shows but for now I just wanted to discuss my interest in iZombie.

I just picked up the first issue of iZombie a couple of months ago and just got around to reading it. I knew it was a comic book series before the show aired last season but never got around to buying any of the comics. So I did the reverse and watched the show before I read any of the original stories. Let me start off by saying both the comic and the show are really good stories about the protagonist struggling with living her life as a zombie, if you even call being a zombie living. The one difference I noticed was the character’s name was changed in the show for some reason. In the books her name is Gwen Dylan and in the TV series her name is Olivia Moore. In the book she is a grave digger at an eco friendly cemetery and during the afterhours she will dig up the bodies again just to eat the brains of the dead. In the television show she works as a coroner were she has more security to operate on a body and in the process she eats their brains.

Now in both portraits of the character she must eat brains so she won’t go full on zombie like the ones we’ve seen in movies, mainly the ones we see in George Romero’s Night of the Living Deadi. The show also took away certain characters and properties. In the book she has friends that are a ghost, a mummy and a were-terrier. In the show there is nothing but the zombies. But those are just a few differences, the show is still good. It is one of the shows on the CW I must watch every week. The first season was amazing and I can’t wait for season two’s release.