10 Greatest Horror Comics You NEED To Read

10. The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead was a monthly comic book series that ran for 193 issues from 2003 to 2019. It was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore. The story followed Kentucky Deputy Rick Grimes who awoke from a coma to discover the world was overrun with zombies. Along with a few survivors, Grimes battled his way across the undead-infested country to pockets of humanity where safety was a relative concept.

What set The Walking Dead apart from the already trite and over-saturated zombie genre was that this story centered on the relationships of the people and not just the minute details of survival in a zombie apocalypse. Additionally, it was the human antagonists like the Governor and Negan that were equally, if not more dangerous, than the walkers themselves.

Although he was only the artist on the first six issues and the cover artist for the first 24, the contribution of co-creator Tony Moore to this series should not be overlooked. Not only did he create the visual style for the look of the zombies, but he also created a grimy atmosphere that drew readers into that world. It was a dirty, broken, smelly, dead world and readers could feel and almost smell it through every panel. Charlie Adlard did a masterful job on the series but it sprang from the twisted pencil of Tony Moore.