**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** The Last Days of Salton Academy by Jennifer Brozek. Speaking Volumes, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1645406822 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) I at first thought this might be dark academia, and it technically qualifies, but really it’s zombie survival horror that happens to take place mostly at an isolated boarding […]
Category: zombies
T.V. Review: What If…? Season 1
January 5, 2024Movies and T.V. shows sticking to the books never mattered much to me, because I see each new version as a shared conversation between makers and audience about the source material. What If, then is right up my alley. Season one starts with a series of theoreticals; What if Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? […]
Webcomic Review: Love Me to Death
September 15, 2022Love Me to Death is an online serial manga on Webtoons with chapters available weekly for free (and the three most recent chapters are paid.) It centers on Victor, a necromancer, who lives in a South American flavored town, part of an empire controlled by the Church of the God of Life. Necromancy is outlawed […]
**Reposted from the ML Archives** While Marvel Comics was the first to take advantage of zombies’ growing popularity by zombifying some of their most beloved heroes in Marvel Zombies, DC has now joined the fetid flesh party with Blackest Night. Unlike Marvel Zombies, in which Marvel lets the action take place outside the normal settings of the Marvel universe, […]
BOOM! Studios, 2007 ISBN: 1934506028 Available: New and Used Zombie Tales is a full color collection of zombie stories. The authors are a collection of comic book and television writers who take a unique approach and fresh look at the zombie genre. The stories range from the humorous to the horrific, and some are even touching. […]
Book Review: Unchosen by Katharyn Blair
October 5, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Katherine Tegen Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062657640 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Two years ago, the world was cursed with an infection that spread through direct eye contact, turning the infected into bloodthirsty, cannibalistic killers whose personalities and intelligence degrade over time, leaving only the monster behind. An infected […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Mississippi Zombie: A Horror Anthology by Bradley Golden, Alex Barranco, Joe Wight, Marcus H. Roberts, et al. Caliber Comics, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781643377131 Available: Paperback, Kindle, comiXology Caliber Comics brings us Mississippi Zombie: A Horror Anthology, a series of walking dead tales set in rural Mississippi. In “Mississippi Crossing Part 1”, Private […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* First Comics, Inc., 2011 ISBN-13: 9781618550026 Available: Paperback The story begins with a volcano unearthing four perfectly preserved fossilized zombie ants from prehistoric times, who end up washed ashore in the middle of a zombie infestation. However, this isn’t any normal infestation. The zombie population is divided into […]
Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
June 13, 2019Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0062570604 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Editor’s note: Due to its topic and content, Dread Nation contains racial slurs and outdated language. I’m using “Negro” in this review as it is the term used throughout the book. In this alternate history, the Civil War […]
Book Review: Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
June 9, 2019Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry Simon and Schuster, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1534406377 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook I will be honest, I am not a fan of zombie fiction. As a reviewer, I am putting my feelings about the genre as a whole to the side to review Broken Lands because it is on the final ballot for […]