What can you say about The
Walking Dead? Well, I can say
that another season of the hit AMC comic book show has come to a close, which
is the entire reason this article is getting written. More than that, though, I can say that it is pretty
impressive how much AMC’s The Walking
Dead has managed to elevate the place of independent comics in terms of
their marketability. Previously,
indie comics hadn’t really been a major force outside the comic market since
the speculator bubble burst in the ‘90s.
Back then, names like Youngblood, Spawn, and Savage Dragon
were all big names and even though we had Hellboy in the mid-2000s the idea of
adapting creator owned indie books to the small screen was more or less written
off till Walking Dead got big. So even though I haven’t read the comic
in forever and really don’t like it or the show very much I certainly
acknowledge that good things came out of this multimedia phenomena. So, with that said let’s dive into the
shallow end and get the cover story on the top 16 Walking Dead covers.
