The Walking Dead Top Kills for Seasons 1 & 2. Is your favorite super gory, extra bloody, zombie killing moment listed here? The Walking Dead is an American television drama series created by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy [ 2 ] Rick Grimes, who rouses from a coma to discover the world dominated by flesh-eating "walkers", looking like the zombies of George A. Romero's horror movies. He starts to get a hold of his family and bump into a lot of other survivors along the way.