I stopped caring about the show, but held out some hope on the comics...but then I got the 2nd or 3rd compendium, and it was pretty lame. They relied way too much on splash pages, which inflate the page count but actually don't add a ton to the story. And the story itself just went kinda bonkers.
I think the initial interesting concept -- surviving in the immediate aftermath of a zombie apocalypse -- gradually just...wasn't sustainable. It wasn't interesting. I mean, they took it in logical directions -- different societies would spring up, different political structures, many of them based on rule through force, etc. -- but that also moved away from the zombies being the real threat. And to juice things, they added stuff like a dude with a ****ing pet tiger because, yeah, sure, that's what you do. Of course there'd be pet tigers. Naturally.
I don't think there's really a better way to tell the story they were telling in the broad strokes, it's just that it stopped really being interesting. Maybe that was the characters, maybe that's the concept. The thrill of post-apocalyptic settings is more the contrast it shows with society, not the gradual process of rebuilding. I mean, it stops being post-apocalyptic and basically becomes "Swiss Family Robinson with Zombies."