The Walking Dead is a comic and television series that revolves around the life of Rick Grimes, a small-town police officer and his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies, or as The Walking Dead characters call them, Walkers.
Rick Grimes and his partner Shane are involved in a shootout with an escaped convict. Rick gets shot and blacks out. He awakens from a coma one month later alone in an abandoned hospital only to realize that the zombie apocalypse has begun. Rick finds the hospital cafeteria has been crowded with zombies, and barely escapes with his life. He returns to his home, only to find it abandoned and catches a shovel in the back of the head. When he awakes he discovers a boy named Duane Jones had hit him, mistaking him to be a zombie. Duane's father Morgan explains about the zombie plague and how they have taken up in Rick's neighbor's house.
