Why it's Hot:
- Premiere issue of an ongoing series about survivors of a zombie outbreak from writer Robert Kirkman
- Adapted by AMC for cable television
- 1st appearance of Rick Grimes
- 1st appearance of Shane Walsh
- Robert Kirkman story
- Tony Moore cover
Synopsis:
A small town cop, Rick Grimes, wakes up from a coma but something is different. He comes to find that people are dying and coming back as undead monsters. In this Hellish world he has a wife and kid, Lori Grimes and Carl Grimes, who he cannot find. Once he flees the town where he was raised he sets out to find his family in the apocalypse.
