All attempts at keeping zombies a secret are off the table in this season. Instead the zombies are exposed and Fillmore-Graves and their private zombie military take over Seattle and try to control it while outside the rest of the United States considers nuking Seattle from space. Faced with entirely new choices, Liv finds herself […]
Category: zombies
TV Review: iZombie Season 3
July 14, 2018Saved, unexpectedly, from Vaugh DuClark by an all zombie ex-military company trying to build a fair life for zombies, Liv, Ravi, and Clive try to get back to normal solving crimes and trying to make a cure to zombieness. Major finally gets a break, getting to join the zombie run private security force (a perfect […]
TV Review: iZombie Season 2
July 7, 2018Blaine and Major have been cured of the zombie virus, but Ravi is still searching for more tainted utopium to synthesize more doses. Meanwhile our favorite zombie-friendly Scooby crew becomes embroiled in a plot by zombie virus creator #2; Max Rager creator Vaughn DuClark. DuClark not just knows about the side effects, he wants to […]
Army of Darkness/Xena Warrior Princess: Forever and a Day by Scott Lobdell, art by Elliot Fernandez Dynamite Entertainment, 2017 ISBN-13: 9781524103514 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, and comiXology ebook The Army of Darkness/Xena Warrior Princess: Forever and a Day storyline opens with Xena holding her wounded life companion, Gabrielle, after her army has been destroyed by the ultimate evil. […]
TV Review: iZombie season 1
December 17, 2017Liv Moore (*rimshot*) was an overachiever headed straight for a prestigious career as a heart surgeon and a wonderful life as the wife of perfect, sweet heart throb Major Lilywhite. (Yup, enjoy the puns, folks.) And then, after being encouraged to loosen up, Liv attends a party that ends in a zombie mini-pocalypse. Liv is […]
Afterlife with Archie volume 1: Escape from Riverdale by Roberto Auirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francovilla Archie Comics, 2014 ISBN: 9781619889088 Available: New, used & digital Oh, Riverdale. The iconic small town USA, perpetually stuck in the 1950s, where a boy struggles with such heady things as which girl to invite to a movie Friday night. Archie-with-zombies could have been a […]
Book List: Breaking Cliches in Zombie Fiction
September 9, 2017I was reading a blog post on realism in zombie fiction by Brian Parker, a writer of zombie fiction. Somewhere in the middle of it, he addressed the problem of the Mary Sue in zombie novels: If you’re like me, you likely roll your eyes at the stereotypical protagonist in zombie fiction. You know the type, it’s […]
Harper Voyager, 2014 ISBN-13: 9780062048783 Available: Paperback, Kindle This is the second book in The Great Undead War series (the first book is By The Blood of Heroes. Normally I would never start a story in the middle, but I jumped at a review copy of this novel because I have read and heard great […]
Review: Zombie Youth: Book 2: Borrowed Time by H.E.Goodhue
October 17, 2014Zombie Youth: Borrowed Time is a masterful example of the way a work can defy target audience and genre: a true crossover for fans of horror, armageddon, and coming of age (with zombies). By intertwining several survival factions, each with a predictable agenda and hierarchy, Goodhue realistically emphasizes the strengths and shortcomings of several generations. Thus, […]
Review: Zom-B by Darren Shan
July 28, 2014Zom-B is the first title in a new series of the same name, by teen horror master Darren Shan. B is a teen in England, with a troubled life, with an abusive, racist father. When a small town in Ireland is decimated by zombies, B’s father dismisses the reported attacks as a ploy by the media. […]