Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

After a devastating encounter with the Whisperers, Rick must rally the communities to take action. But have they already reached their breaking point?

The world we knew is gone. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. Survivors have taken refuge in a prison, but daily life inside the barbed wire is a made a nightmare by the constant attacks by the zombies.

This hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the cover art - all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends.

Rick Grimes and the other survivors continue trying to make their prison shelter a home, but a helicopter crash nearby leads them to discover another group of survivors nearby who are nearly as dangerous as the zombies.

"An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled-- no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living" -- p. [4] of cover.

Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes finds himself alone. The world he knows is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. He sets out on a search to find what has happened to his family.

Police Officer Rick Grimes and his son, Carl, find shelter in a house while zombies roam outside, but their supplies are dwindling and Rick decides it is time to move on and they encounter a familiar face along the way.

Rick and his group learn the dangers of living behind the safety of the Community walls, and much worse: what happens when those walls give way to those outside. Collects The Walking Dead #73-84.

"The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia....

Rick and the group of survivors are fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison. Peace is short-lived as the group loses everything to the threat of the walkers, outside threats and the hidden dangers brewing inside. They are broken apart and sent on divergent paths, unsure of everyone else's fate as they are exposed to new dangers, new enemies, and heartbreaking choices. They will have their faith thoroughly tested; a faith that...