Oh, definitely!
I mean I've read every issue of the walking dead and am a huge fan of the show so that was kind of the vibe I wanted it to have going in. There are different mutations of the zombies which is inspired by games like the last of us or left 4 dead. There will be little references here and there to other zombie media in some form or another.
One thing that really inspired me to write a zombie story is the way zombies are used as a story telling device. Often zombies are used as some kind of meta narrative about the true brutal nature of man or something like that.
What I found was (as far as I've seen) there was a lack of nuanced depictions of how societies collapse would benefit the disenfranchised. So take some very vocally anti-establishment queers and throw them in the apocalypse and see how that works out for them.