Robert Kirkman Explains Why The Walking Dead Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Zombie’

Walkers, biters, roamers, lurkers, lamebrains, dead ones… we’ve heard the living dead called just about everything on The Walking Dead except for the most obvious term: zombie. While referring to them this way seems like a no-brainer for most of us, it hasn’t crossed the minds of any of the characters on the AMC zombie drama. But there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for that.