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Post by dem bones on Nov 11, 2008 17:24:47 GMT
David Kendall (ed.) - The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics (Robinson, 2008) Cover image: Carlos Kastro Cover design: Pete Rozycki Blurb: The Undead are heading your way - 18 of the greatest zombie comics ever.
You can’t keep a good (or bad) corpse down, and they rise up in spectacular form in this new collection. These days zombies are the rock and roll of horror monsters.
Presenting a mix of voodoo victims, creepy somnambulists, and flesh eating deadheads, This collection brings you the best the graveyard can yield up, including:
Vince Locke's first ever Deadworld comic, Black Sabbath, in which a little window-shopping turns out to be a big mistake.
Scott Hampton’s awesome adaptation of R. E. Howard’s slice of Southern Gothic, Pigeons From Hell.
Darko Macan's short E.C.-style shocker The Immortals.
Askold Akishin's The Haunted Ship, in which shipwreck survivors discover an apparently abandoned vessel.
Steve Niles' modern twist on the traditional back-for-revenge story, Making Amends.
If it’s dead, moving and hungry, you’ll find it here!"The mindless, shambling zombies of yesteryear are rapidly being replaced by sprinters and runners with an insatiable appetite for human flesh .... " Unlike the other Mammoths mentioned in this section, ... Zombies doesn't delve back into pre-code days - presumably any pre-nineteen eighties zombies are now far too mouldy to resurrect! I've not had time to study everything at length, but as there's been much response to the recent Robert E. Howard threads, Pigeons From Hell seemed as good a place as any to dip in, a very dark, claustrophobic strip with no dialogue whatsoever. Artist Scott Hampton remains faithful to REH's original throughout, but perhaps it helps if you know the story or you might struggle to make sense of what's going on. It's early days yet, but so far I've been most taken with Buddy Scalara's epic, Necrotic: Dead Flesh On A Living Body from 2001 which answers that big question i'm sure we've all put to ourselves at one time or another: can the walking dead still enjoy a love life and if so, what happens when they get .... carried away?
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 11, 2008 19:20:08 GMT
Have just got this myself and the only one I delved into was the 'Pigeons From Hell" adaptation. Liked it. The rest appears very new, which is not really my bag, despite having a subscription to "The Walking Dead". Still, looking forward to delving into the world of the undead.
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 16, 2010 13:59:21 GMT
Well, I enjoyed it hugely. Some below par offerings, of course, but Pigeons from Hell is a real showstopper, and Askold Akishin's short pieces were a total surprise. Well worth the money (especially as I got it for a fiver from HMV).
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Post by dem bones on Aug 16, 2010 17:18:48 GMT
i know this sounds ungrateful but it's a shame Robinson's didn't use glossy paper for this one as they did with The Mammoth Book Of Tattoos which, in full colour and at the same cover price as Zombie Comics, is a truly gorgeous offering, perhaps the best looking Mammoth to date. Otherwise, nowt wrong with the Zombie book but i far prefer the far more diverse, decades-spanning Mammoth Best Horror Comics. Mammoth Crime Comics is bloody good fun too.
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 18, 2010 13:57:21 GMT
Haven't read the Crime Comics but the Horror Comics is on my shelf along with the Zombies. I agree, a glossy one would have been really nice, and I'd have gladly paid more to own it, but on the other hand the cheap paper reminded me of the horror comics I used to come across when I was a kid; mostly American, and never bought in by our newspaper shop as a series but only as one-off odds and ends from the clearance warehouse, they were sooo much nicer to read than the Beano or Bunty. And cheaper than Dracula Lives.
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 15, 2013 22:52:54 GMT
Just picked this up at a Tennessee flea market here.
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Post by stuyoung on Nov 16, 2013 9:55:54 GMT
I've had this for ages but still haven't got round to reading it properly. I agree that the Pigeons from Hell adaptation makes more sense if you've read the original.
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