Helpful Score: 3
Max Brooks, Zombie-Prophet-in-Chief, does it again. No other author/harbinger of impending doom details the dangers of the zombie plague so movingly and plausibly- these zombie attacks may be lost to the annals of history but they read as real as CNN. Brooks painstakingly documents evidence of zombie attacks on the ancient Neanderthals, the Roman armies in Britania, Caribbean plantations, French colonies in North Africa, Czarist Russia and other locales across our planet's history and geography. Each encounter is chilling, compelling and highly educational. Brooks blends perfectly the reckless threat of the zombie plague and- as in the case of a zombie outbreak onboard a slave ship- the deliberate cruelty and blindness of the living.
Nicole B. (noisechick) reviewed The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks on + 95 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Being a huge fan of WWZ, and a comic fan to boot (admittedly with high standards), I was really anticipating this.
Don't want to say it was a letdown... but it went too fast, and frankly, the art was a bit of a disappointment. (I expect the art to add to the story, add another dimension, even tell another narrative that couldn't be done with words. This... is just illustration. It's properly gory, for black and white, but... meh, nothing I even need to look at twice. I expect my art to make me flip back to see if I missed clues or study it for [sic] beauty and emotion.)
I respect the historical narrative, but that's all Brooks. Sneaking zombie stuff into historical situations was pretty cheeky, and well done, but... it didn't need to be a comic. So this is turn-n-burn, no second glance for me.
Don't want to say it was a letdown... but it went too fast, and frankly, the art was a bit of a disappointment. (I expect the art to add to the story, add another dimension, even tell another narrative that couldn't be done with words. This... is just illustration. It's properly gory, for black and white, but... meh, nothing I even need to look at twice. I expect my art to make me flip back to see if I missed clues or study it for [sic] beauty and emotion.)
I respect the historical narrative, but that's all Brooks. Sneaking zombie stuff into historical situations was pretty cheeky, and well done, but... it didn't need to be a comic. So this is turn-n-burn, no second glance for me.
As usual, Max Brooks killed it with the zombie lore! The 'accounts' were brutal and some were down right gruesome. There was that slight comedic air to them, but man this was dark. The art work is fantastic. I found myself just staring at it for long periods, soaking it in. The art told more of the story that the text.
I really enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed it.
