Everyone has their own opinion and I'm glad steampunk shared us with his view of the show.
I like the show and comic book and in the second half of the season Sgt. Abraham Ford (played by Michael Cudlitz of Band of Brothers and Southland fame) will make an appearance, along with two other characters from the comic book.
In the comic book, after they leave the prison, they go back to Hershel's **** to regroup and see who is alive after the ****** on the prison and then somewhere else shortly after that which I think the route the TV show will take. The comic book is very different with how it handled the whole prison war. In the comics, the people that ****** it are the Woodbury residents and end up taking it over, when Rick's group (who lose many in the battle) leave and scatter. The next episode of the series will be based on issue 49 of the comic book, which picks up directly after the prison ****** and mainly focuses on Carl, when Rick is sick and *************.