dangioffre
5 Series
Jun 6, 2026
Staff
Ranked
Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Comics
Bleak, gripping series exploring the end of the world, societal collapse, and what comes after. The best of the genre in comics form.
The Walking Dead (2011)
Ovni Press
14 issues
1
The Walking Dead is the definitive post-apocalyptic comic, running 193 issues before Robert Kirkman ended it on his own terms.
Y: The Last Man (2002)
DC Comics
60 issues
2
Y: The Last Man follows the only surviving man after a plague wipes out every other male on Earth in a gripping 60-issue run.
DMZ (2006)
DC Comics
72 issues
3
DMZ drops a journalist into a second American civil war, making Manhattan's demilitarized zone one of comics' great settings.
East of West (2013)
Image Comics
45 issues
4
East of West reimagines America as a fractured dystopia where Death rides against an apocalyptic conspiracy of nations.
Low (2014)
Image Comics
26 issues
5
LOW imagines humanity surviving ocean floor cities after the sun expands, a vivid and relentlessly hopeful apocalypse story.
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