The Walking Dead
comic book series
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The Walking Dead is an American zombie apocalypse comic book series created by Robert Kirkman, with artwork by Tony Moore for the first six issues (who also provided cover art for the first twenty-four issues) and by Charlie Adlard for the remainder of the series. Beginning in 2003 and published by Image Comics, the series ran for 193 issues, with Kirkman unexpectedly ending the series in 2019. Apart from a few specials, the comic was published primarily in black and white. It began publishing colorized versions issue by issue, colored by Dave McCaig, starting in October 2020. The comic book series focuses on Rick Grimes, a Kentucky deputy who is shot in the line of duty and awakens from a coma in a zombie apocalypse that has resulted in a state-wide quarantine.
Adaptations (8)
The Walking Dead has been adapted 8 times, across television series and web series, from 2003 to 2024. The most recent is The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024).
The Walking Dead2003 · television series · 44 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.1Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Fear the Walking Dead2015 · television series · 44 min · IMDb ↗IMDb6.8What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond2020 · television series · 60 min · IMDb ↗IMDb4.6A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water2022 · web series · IMDb ↗IMDb6.4Riley is serving as a weapons officer aboard the USS Pennsylvania near the Gulf of Mexico when a mysterious outbreak forces the crew to strategize a way off the sub before it becomes their tomb, in this prequel to Fear the Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead: Dead City2023 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.0Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon2023 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5After washing ashore in France, Daryl struggles to piece together how he got there and why, as he navigates a fractured, walker-infested landscape to find his way home. During his journey, Daryl has to protect a young boy, Laurent, who is seen as a messiah, while facing new, dangerous walker variants and the "Power of the Living" paramilitary group, as the connections he forms along the way complicate his plan to return home.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live2024 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.7Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
