The walking dead is a graphic novel (Yep, Comic Book) dealing with a small band of survivors and their efforts to carve out some sort of civilization in a zombie wasteland.

The story is told from the perspective of a Police Officer (Rick Grimes) who wakes from a coma to find the world he’s known has been over run by the living dead.

He, over the course of the first few volumes, reunites with his family and his partner, bands together with other survivors and collectively they do their best to find somewhere that they can call home.

Until then they are forced to live a nomadic existance putting themselves in harms way as they forage for food and fuel in the unknown day after day.

The series is available by Volume (each volume spans approximately 6 comic book issues) or by book (each book covers two volumes approximately). I have only read the first 4 volumes of the series and while I enjoyed it I didn’t feel it was really for me or that I was getting much bang for my buck (each volume can be read in less than 30 minutes, and costs the same as a typical zombie movie).

If this is your sort of thing then I recommend it. If not then maybe give it a try, you never know.