We here at Geeks of Doom are all pretty big fans of Robert Kirkman‘s comic series The Walking Dead from Image Comics, and needless to say we’ve all been looking forward to the upcoming series that will air on AMC, premiering in October during their Horrorfest line of movies.

Friday’s Walking Dead panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con brought with it our first look at the series, and let me say that it is looking spectacular. The series, masterminded by writer/director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Mist, and a little movie called The Shawshank Redemption) and produced by Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens), follows Rick Grimes as he wakes up from a gun shot wound to find that he’s slept through the zombie apocalypse and must find his wife and son. Kirkman, Darabont, and Hurd were all on hand to give some details about the show.