For many months now, social media has been speculating on what they expect to see on the new "Walking Dead" series in August, "Fear the Walking Dead."

In the trailer released at Comic Con this year in San Diego, the series showed a world that was still intact, in terms of civilization, but the "Walkers" were rising. They were not quite like the Walkers on "The Walking Dead," though, because these were fresh corpses who had reanimated. Their skin and bodies were not to the highly decomposed stage yet.

The trailer showed a world that was slowly falling apart with the rise of the Walkers and the apocalypse was in its early stages.

In an interview with Paste Magazine, producer, director and makeup artist Greg Nicotero summed up what to expect out of the series.

"We didn't want to do 'CSI,'" Nicotero told Paste. "We didn't want to do a cookie-cutter show that was the exact same thing."

That definitely brings up an excellent point. The show "CSI" did have a few spinoffs where they would basically have the same theme, just in different locations. If this were just a spinoff, then the show would have been titled "The Walking Dead: Los Angeles."

That means that the new show premiering on AMC in August will be a series of its own, one that sets its own rules. Fans may remember that back in Season 1 of "The Walking Dead," it was Rick and Shane's group that coined the term "Walkers" and the name was inherent to that specific group. So will the Los Angeles crew also call them Walkers, or will they call them zombies?

"FTWD" showrunner Dave Erickson also had a few things to say about how this show will set itself apart from "TWD."

"One of the things I hope will continue to distinguish the show is this roundedness of the family conflicts; dysfunctional, blended family and what that means; and how do we let the apocalypse impact and exasperate that story as opposed to ultimately succumbing to the overwhelm of strictly survival," Erickson told Paste.

The show is about the unseen threat. It is about the characters not knowing what they are dealing with and trying to survive in a world where it is still illegal to shoot someone in the head.

"Part of the goal with the pilot and the first few episodes was to make it about the shark you don't see," says Erickson. "We talked a lot about soundscape and about the gentleman who's on the other side of the curtain in Nick's hospital. The expectation is that that guy is going to turn, but it's also something about his continued breathing and just creating this sense of dread without having to [show zombies]."

For those few who have not seen it yet, check out the "FTWD" trailer below.