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Super generic post apocalypse with a slight horror slant. Way too little dialogue for how mediocre the art is.

Some cool visuals and I appreciate that it doesn’t lean too far into pastiche, but it ultimately feels very hollow. There’s almost nothing to latch onto character-wise or story-wise. The art is good but not good enough to carry. There is occasional comedy but enough to call this truly funny.

I didn’t care for the change in perspective. Zombie-developing-feelings is a fairy unoriginal premise, but I think the ideas of activism and passive cruelty offered a really unique perspective that spoke to Deniz’ strengths. There isn’t much of that in this issue and it mostly feels like a generic zombie story. Like many of Camp’s stories, the emotional beats can err on cloying and the characters are a bit thin.

This is basically just a fire hose of exposition and considering how much of it there is, I don’t actually feel this added much to the first issue.

The Zombie Council was kind of interesting, if a little on the nose. Besides that, I really don’t think this added too much to the previous two issues and like most Deniz Camp comics, the characters are just really not that engaging.

The hype behind this is so odd. Some good laughs here and there and it obviously goes down very easily, but it’s really nothing special. The story is too trite to be interesting and not self-aware enough to be clever.

The pacing grinds to a halt to introduce the whole town and this issues mostly just retreads ground covered in issue 1.

While the premise is very unoriginal, the socially conscious context in which Deniz is framing it seems promising. That said, I still found this to be a pretty slow start. None of the characters are really compelling and despite all the world building, I can’t say I find this take on the zombie apocalypse to be particularly memorable.

This was a fun start.

Probably my favorite first issue out of the new Vertigo relaunch.