Walking Dead: Days Gone By (Vol. 1) / Robert Kirkman / 144 pgs.

In the introduction to this first volume of "The Walking Dead" series, writer Kirkman explains that rather than a simple gorefest, his goal was to create a character-based storyline which realistically shows what one person might face when civilization collapses.

The story's main character is police officer Rick Grimes who wakes up from a coma and finds that his whole town has been turned into Zombies.  He desperately wanders around trying to figure out what happened, what's going on, and where his friends and family went.  Along the way he picks up information and a few survival tips from the remaining survivors who have yet to be zombiefied. 

A bit of a slow start, but there is plenty of gore and the details of the zombies with their flesh rotting off and body parts missing is enough to gross out even those with the strongest of constitutions.  The end of the volume sets up a larger storyline so you know that this series will have a lot more coming. 

On a side note: I have watched a few episodes of the TV series from the first season, and the show follows along pretty closely with only a few sequence changes here and there.