Hey, comic readers, redhollywood here!!!! Now usually we review different comic titles, movies, and bring you news about the two. Today I would like to present something totally different to you.

Now almost everyone you know has a blog. Most of them aren’t worth looking at, but now and again you come across some that are unique. The blog of Chad Jacobs is up at www.chadjacobs.wordpress.com. It is a clever take on the zombie mythos. If you are like me, and you love zombies, then this blog is a must read. It will be updated often and comments can be left. What is also great is that people who are commenting are maintaining the integrity of the blog.

Follow Chad Jacobs as he experiences what it is like to be a zombie. It is fun and entertaining and should be read.

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Storyline: The Walking Dead #50
Date: June 25, 2008
Price: $2.99 US
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Rus Wooton

Synopsis: The five-oh. It’s been a long time coming, but Kirkman has made it to issue 50 with the little zombie book that could. In this issue we follow Carl, left slightly alone since last issue. Read catch up, because I’m not spoiling it for anyone who waits for the trades.

Anyway this issue sees Carl dealing with the ramifications of last issue, as well as coming into his own as a character. It’s been a long time coming. In all honesty, I’ve never cared for Carl until this issue. He’s always seemed like a pain in the ass background character with a cowboy hat. Not anymore. Not at all.

Opinion: I want to let it be known that I love zombies. Anything to do with zombies I tend to read, absorb and spit back out in a morphed form in a story. The Walking Dead is perhaps the only good zombie story currently being printed and it deserves all the praise it’s fan base gives it.

Kirkman has a way of portraying the zombies as a background character and bring humans to the surface. You don’t see this too often in stories following the ambulatory deceased. Normally it’s the same old crap over and over again. Dead rise, eat the living and all we get to see is some action story without any heart.

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Storyline: None Specified
Date: March 19, 2008
Price: $3.99 US
Writer: Brian Lynch
Artist: Dave Crosland

Synopsis: College can be tough. Making new friends, falling in love, being one of the few people left on Earth who isn’t a bloodthirsty zombieŠ welcome to the world of Everybody’s Dead! Ten friends remain the only ones on campus who have survived an overnight apocalypse. Now they must fend off legions of the undead and restart civilization in their own image! (Civilization, of course, is doomed.) From Brian Lynch, writer on the blockbuster hit Angel: After the Fall, and artist Dave Crosland, from the critically acclaimed Scarface: Scarred for Life!

Opinion: I’ve got three words for this book: another zombie comic?

Jeebus this bandwagon’s getting mighty full lately. Don’t get me wrong, I love them cute, fuzzy little brain-eaters as much as the next guy but come on! Can’t we get a new fad already?

That said - Everybody’s Dead is refreshing. It takes a stale concept and polarizes the somber, tragic tone of titles like The Walking Dead and replaces it eloquently with the flavor of awkward college experiences and the interpersonal relationships all while maintaining a nice mixture of 3 dimensionality in the characters.

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Storyline: No specific story arc
Date: September 12, 2007
Price: $2.99 US / $3.25 CAN
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

Synopsis: Survival in a world ravaged by a plague of zombies is difficult, however Rick and his band seem to have found what little goodness is left in the world as life finally begins to stabilize within their prison fences. Food is growing and even with the oncoming shadow of the nearby town of Woodbury, the group finally has a chance to stretch their legs and just enjoy some of the smaller things in life. As is Kirkman’s style, however, nothing in this world is to ever end with a happy ending, and this issue doesn’t change that mold, ending in one of his greatest cliffhangers to date…

Opinion: Nothing good can ever come to Rick or his tribe. That said, this issue is one of Kirkman’s finest, the pacing meshes well with the flow of time, showing the reader several weeks at a time between the pages, finally ending the issue with the … oops, I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but take it from me, nothing good can possibly happen after the final pages of the issue. The issue literally gave me shivers as I hit the final page and made me wish time could pass just so I could get to the next issue. This is what comics should all strive to be, in my opinion. I heavily recommend this book, as well as the whole Walking Dead series!

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Storyline: None Specified
Date: July 2007
Price: $14.95 US
Writer: Matt Billman/Christopher Herndon
Artist: Matt Billman/Christopher Herndon
 

Synopsis: “Poop Dogs, Hitler Chickens and Monster Trucks or How I Stopped Wearing Pants and Learned to Love the Zombie.” The collected first seven issues of this webcomic series! (www.livingwithzombies.net). The story of two friends as their greatest wish comes true: The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived, but does that mean they’re the only humans left? This look at zombie/survival stories holds a refreshing twist of humor on every page as Chris’ and Matt’s greatest dreams come true from page to page.

Opinion: As a fan of zombie survival, I absolutely love the grim, dirty, disgusting world that generally is a post-apocalyptic, corpse filled planet. My only general complaint during these stories is that the characters become so horribly cliched from tale to tale that for the most part I thought I had seen every story that could ever be written with zombies as the central push. Living with Zombies changed my opinion. It presents a more humorous view of the zombie survival artform. Written by and starring Matt Billman and Chris Herndon, these two have been awaiting the apocalypse for quite a while, and it shows as from page one to one ninety two the madcap adventure doesn’t cease. It also presents an interesting view of the higher powers during the resultant escapades, as the Devil himself becomes interested in how Billman can commit murder without committing any actual sins.

If you’re growing tired of the word zombie and anything to do with it, or conversely absolutely love (and are waiting for like I am) the idea of an impending zombie apocalypse; then you should definitely pick up this book. At roughly fifteen dollars, the value far exceeds the cost of the book. The only downside? Since they self-publish, you can only snag the book from their site now, so head over there if you want to pick one up.

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