The New York Times bestselling, Eisner Awardwinning THE WALKING DEAD series takes readers on the harrowing journey of RickGrimes: a small town sheriff''s deputy who slipped into a coma and awoke in anapocalyptic landscape where the undead have risen and prey on the living.Character drama, suspense, and dystopian survival horror collide in this popculture phenomenon by Robert Kirkman ( Super Dinosaur, Oblivion Song,Invincible ) and Charlie Adlard upon which the hit AMC television series isbased. In THE ROTTEN CORE story arc, Rickleads the Commonwealth''s Governor, Pamela Milton, on a tour of the variouscommunities Alexandria is aligned with. Naturally... terrible things begin tohappen very quickly. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #181-186.