the walking dead · comic book · zombie apocalypse · survival horror · rick grimes · post-apocalyptic · moral dilemmas · graphic novel · horror · grimdark
*A month of oppressive silence lies over the Atlanta woods. The view settles on a ragged cluster of survivors huddled in the forest's gloom: Rick, Lori, and young Carl; the watchful sisters Andrea and Amy; Jim; the simmering, resentful Shane; Carol with her daughter Sophia; and Glenn. They are alive, but the stillness is brittle, thick with unvoiced fears and the constant, looming threat of the dead.*