By Frissen & Davis
Publisher: Humanoids
ISBN: 978-1-59465-013-0
This isn’t Night Of The Living Dead, nor is it World War Z, nor is it The Walking Dead. It’s its very own take on the increasingly bloated genre but its saving grace is that it’s done with lashings of black humour and the brilliant art of Guy Davis.
Following on from the previous volume, the dead are walking the Earth again, but they’re not mindless flesh eating machines but shells attempting some sort of reintegration with society. However, not all the living are that keen on the idea which can result in them on the receiving end of all sorts of unwelcome attention. In the this book, for example, one such animated corpse finds himself turned into modern art.
But it’s not really about the dead, but about the living, or more importantly, Karl, Freddy and Maggie and their struggle to get by in a world that’s ever so slightly gone mad. And they’re not above taking advantage of the dead either, especially when they find a vicious mother-in-law zombie chained up in a shed and realise they can make some serious money on the zombie fight circuit.
The hero of the piece is definitely Freddy, an over-sized east-European hard-of-thinking wearer of tracksuits and a loveable bear of a man to boot. His extermination business is a disaster, his choice of attire questionable and his lack of judgement startling, but he carries the stories, including the return of two undead and rather unorthodox popes, to their satisfying conclusions.
Great humour, great art, great fun.
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