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Book #2 of 2014: The Other Dead
Feb. 8th, 2014 08:58 pmThe Other Dead by Qing Ping Mui (Author) , Joshua Ortega (Author), (No artist listed)
(Book given free for review by IDW Publishing.)
Rating: 3/Okay (1-5/hated-loved)
Bookkeeping: "Book #2" is going to be this year's catchall for graphic novels, unfinished books, and any other non-traditional/quick reads.
I've always thought that zombie stories missed a good opportunity by leaving out animals. Humans become zombies, animals never do. The Other Dead addresses that.
Set in New Orleans, the animal zombie uprising takes place at the same time as a hurricane. Dead birds attack as the rain starts, packs of zombie dogs roam the streets as the storm picks up, and zombie alligators, seals (walruses?), and squirrels show up as the full force of the storm hits. (Zombie squirrels might be the worst of those -- coming through your vents into your house, dropping out of trees onto you...)
Those were the good parts of the story. There were a number of parts that didn't work for me:
1) Obama and other RL people had big parts in the story -- Obama was a main character in the second half. The drawing of him looked nothing at all like him, and having a RL person as a character in the story knocked me out of it. Dick Cheney was also a character and there was a joke about him shooting his friend -- that joke was old nearly a decade ago.
2) I'd rather have not known how the animal zombie "plague" started, especially since it wasn't believable to me.
Though this is a horror series, it was neither too scary nor too gory for easily grossed out me. (The grossest scene was a kid throwing up - drawn in detail over three panels.) The story was entertaining enough that I read the whole thing in one sitting, and the art was fine ("traditional"/American style).
(Book given free for review by IDW Publishing.)
Rating: 3/Okay (1-5/hated-loved)
Bookkeeping: "Book #2" is going to be this year's catchall for graphic novels, unfinished books, and any other non-traditional/quick reads.
I've always thought that zombie stories missed a good opportunity by leaving out animals. Humans become zombies, animals never do. The Other Dead addresses that.
Set in New Orleans, the animal zombie uprising takes place at the same time as a hurricane. Dead birds attack as the rain starts, packs of zombie dogs roam the streets as the storm picks up, and zombie alligators, seals (walruses?), and squirrels show up as the full force of the storm hits. (Zombie squirrels might be the worst of those -- coming through your vents into your house, dropping out of trees onto you...)
Those were the good parts of the story. There were a number of parts that didn't work for me:
1) Obama and other RL people had big parts in the story -- Obama was a main character in the second half. The drawing of him looked nothing at all like him, and having a RL person as a character in the story knocked me out of it. Dick Cheney was also a character and there was a joke about him shooting his friend -- that joke was old nearly a decade ago.
2) I'd rather have not known how the animal zombie "plague" started, especially since it wasn't believable to me.
Though this is a horror series, it was neither too scary nor too gory for easily grossed out me. (The grossest scene was a kid throwing up - drawn in detail over three panels.) The story was entertaining enough that I read the whole thing in one sitting, and the art was fine ("traditional"/American style).
