When cop Rick Grimes awakens from his coma, nothing is as it was. Zombies populate North America, perhaps even the entire world. Cause: unknown. The entire economic and social network has collapsed. Those who have not turned into the living dead are on the run. The big cities are completely in the hands of the creeping, hungry undead. Only in the countryside is it still relatively safe. The Walking Dead depicts Grimes' odyssey through a completely transformed America. In the first volume, he sets out in search of survivors and finds something he never dared to hope for. More than just horror!.