Fear The Walking Dead is facing lawsuits due to the plot lines of season two, it's least popular season,
which featured zombie swimmers out in the Pacific Ocean trying to attack people at sea.
Author Mel Smith alleges that Robert Kirkman and others associated with Fear the Walking Dead...
ripped off ideas from his comic series "Dead Ahead" in a freshly filed copyright lawsuit.
?What had started as a fun little fishing trip soon turns into a nightmare of damnation, trapped on a floating prison. The continents have been hit by a zombie outbreak that spread fast, turning humanity into living corpses, leaving those at sea alive to fend for themselves. With provisions running low, hope comes on the horizon in the form of a luxury liner. All they needed to survive would be on the ship, but who among the fishermen will dare to board the liner and discover what?s become of its passengers and crew?? Dead Ahead description
It may be difficult to prove that a zombie series "setting" can even be protected under copyright laws.
But Mel Smith?s agent, David Alpert, is also Robert Kirkman?s business manager and partner.
With AMC already mired in a number of lawsuits related to The Walking Dead, they may quickly...
and quietly settle just to get remove one more lawsuit from their plate, reports Uproxx.