Kirkman, Robert

Kentucky police officer Rick Grimes, shot on the job, wakes up from a month-long coma to find the world has been taken over by flesh-eating zombies, and upon hearing that most of the people still alive have been herded into the cities, he heads for Atlanta in hopes of finding his wife and son.

A comic book that explores a world where the dead rule. Modern society with its government, grocery stores, and cable television has collapsed and the living are forced to struggle to survive.

"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled. No government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Cover, p. 4.

A group of survivors on the outside launch an attack on zombies in a prison where Rick and his group believed they were safe, and the full-scale battle that ensues results in a high body count.

A ragged group of survivors fights their way through hordes of zombies, and tries to keep from going insane, in an attempt to reach safety in Washington, D.C.

Kentucky police officer Rick Grimes, shot on the job, wakes up from a month-long coma to find the world has been taken over by flesh-eating zombies, and upon hearing that most of the people still alive have been herded into the cities, he heads for Atlanta in hopes of finding his wife and son.

Follows the further adventures of Officer Rick Grimes and other survivors as they try to find a safe place to live in a world where their fellow survivors can be as dangerous as the zombies who want to eat them.