The Walking Dead #1-76 (Update, Ongoing)

I may be running out of superlatives to describe . So I'll just repeat what I've previously said, for the benefit of those who have not yet read this series: The best way--as always--is to start from the very first issue. The grows more absorbing as it goes, revealing more exciting and complicated reasons to want to follow a story where, in a zombie-infested apocalyptic hell, the few surviving humans somehow prove with increasingly horrific means that they are, truly, more monstrous than the undead. As an IGN reviewer avers, "If there is better, more consistently thoughtful character work going on anywhere in mainstream comics, I'd like to see it. Kirkman is a master at peeling away layers of a character's psyche, and Charlie Adlard has the expressive chops to convey those complex emotions." Indeed comics reviewers have been regularly giving each new issue ratings from "Very Good" to "Outstanding". In the case of IGN, an Editor's Choice Award is the norm rather than the exception. Following IGN's ratings system, I'd give the entire series an "Incredible" 9.8 out of 10. . Apparently from the general acclaim, a whole lot of people think so, too.

The conflict escalates. – issue #76 solicitation, imagecomics.com

The is an American monthly black and white comic published by Image Comics beginning in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore (replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward; Moore continued to do the covers until issue #24) and chronicles the travels of a group of people trying to survive in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse. A television series was announced to be in production on August 11, 2009. The series follows a general format of 6-issue story arcs and won the at the 2010 San Diego Comic Convention.


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