The Walking Dead Confirms What Its Aliens Look Like... Even Though They'll Never Be Full Canon

Beginning its almost 200-issue run back in 2003, The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, focused on the rise of the undead and how a ragtag group of survivors, led by the unflappable Rick Grimes, made life worth living in a world gone to hell.

Though series creator Robert Kirkman has joked before about adding aliens to the long list of problems Rick and crew have to deal with daily, a new “Small Bites” story featured in The Walking Dead Deluxe #110 has finally revealed what these extraterrestrial invaders would look like had they become canon!

The Walking Dead Shows What Aliens Would Look like in Its Zombie-Infested Universe

The Walking Dead Deluxe #110 - 2025 (Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Dave McCaig)

Piggybacking on the original full-color tale featured in The Walking Dead #75, this story follows Rick after he's randomly abducted by extraterrestrials revealed to be the cause of the zombie outbreak. Though The Walking Dead #75 notably didn’t show any aliens on-panel, eleven years later, in 2021, they were given their proper debut in a new out-of-continuity sequel series titled Rick Grimes 2000. Developing five sci-fi-tinged shorts, Kirkman and his Invincible artist Ryan Ottley showed Rick as he fought against the invading alien forces, ultimately seeing him prevail with the help of advanced alien tech and his Walking Dead pals.

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It’s been proven before Rick and his fellow survivors can hold their own against zombies and humans alike, with an alien invasion being a difficult but not completely unsurmountable situation to overcome. Of course, it took a while for everyone to figure out how to properly handle the undead threat, so as long as Rick and the rest of Walking Dead’s characters similarly use the alien’s own tech against them à la Rick Grimes 2000, it’s possible that an in-continuity war between humans and aliens would still end in a hard-fought win for humanity, especially with Rick leading the charge.

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