We at Dave and Thomas find zombies to be a very appetizing idea. They’re kinda like the bacon of the horror genre, they can make about any crapfest you’re serving edible.

“What’s that? You have a crappy low/no budget horror movie you want us to watch? Uh… No thanks. Oh, it’s a zombie movie? Well, I’ll get some popcorn going.”

This very mentality is why we were particularly happy to learn that AMC had obtained the rights to adapt the undead-packed comic book, The Walking Dead, into a television series, with Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist) helming the project. AMC has ordered the first six episodes of the first season, with plans to debut in October, 2010.

We’ll give you a moment to let that sink in.

A zombie television series for Halloween! Come October, fans of the biologically challenged may actually have access to weekly doses of brain nibbling. It’s all too much to believe.

Of course, the comic book is not all just rampant zombie attacks and blood orgies. The Walking Dead‘s story follows a small-town police officer and a band of survivors trying to make their way in a world overrun with zombies. A major point of the comic is the evolution of the characters and their personalities in the face of a zombie apocalypse.

The zombies are the slow moving, lurching variety, susceptible to violent brain trauma. Outside of the zombies, there are some particularly nasty villains (The Governor), who prove that no matter how bad a monster is, humans have the capacity to be worse. A theme found in many zombie movies such as 28 Days Later and any of the Romero films.

We feel relatively confident in AMC bringing a decent adaptation of the comic book to television. With their current line-up of original programing producing the critically beloved Mad Men and Breaking Bad, which is almost as addictive as the drug it portrays, we find it a little hard to bet against them right now.