Zombies, gods, and comics, OH MY!

This week, I’m reviewing more than just one thing. Instead of a detailed review of some new movie or comic issue, how about a few short reviews of the comics I read over this last week? First up, one of my favorite topics: zombies!

 

Written by Brea Grant (who some might remember as Daphne, the speedy thief from Heroes’ third season) and Zane Austin Grant, “We Will Bury You” is a slightly different zombie story.

Rather than being set in the modern day, or a dystopian near-future, “We Will Bury You” is set in the past, the early part of the 1900s. The main characters are Mirah and Fanya, two women who are in love, despite their secret relationship’s taboo nature, and despite Mirah’s marriage.

While they are dancing together at the club where Mirah works as a dancer, with Fanya costumed to look like a man, a riot breaks out in the club. Unknown to the duo is that it’s not an ordinary fight, but the start of a full-on zombie apocalypse.

The art in “We Will Bury You”, from Kyle Strahm, took a bit for me to get used to. It’s not my normal preference, but for the story, it seems to fit. This issue, the first of four, is definitely worth picking up, though. In my opinion, it is a good start to the story, and I’m interested to see where it goes from here. Another quality publishing from IDW!

 

Now, on to “God Complex” issue #3, which I’ve been waiting to get my hands on!

If I wasn’t being obvious enough, with my recent gushing over O-Cast, I love mythology, especially Greek mythology. This series feeds my oh-so-nerdy fire, and doesn’t have any budget limitations like O-Cast and any other video-based media would have.

As the story of “God Complex” so far has been going, Apollo has left the pantheon, which in the modern day strongly resembles a business. Needless to say, Zeus is pissed. Apollo has stopped partaking of ambrosia, thus making himself mortal. He has taken a mortal name, Paul, and works in a small restaurant, as the dishwasher.

Now that the other gods have discovered his location (since he used his superhuman strength and such to protect the proprietors of the restaurant), they have sent a witch after him. And not only that, but as a little bit of insurance, they’ve sent the god of strength, Hercules.

I really love this series, but to me, this issue felt kind of rushed. A lot was happening, and I think they could have done themselves a favor by pacing it a little differently, maybe over the course of two issues – have the fight with Hercules be the main focus in this, and the witch summoning the Gorgon as a cliffhanger to be resolved in the upcoming issue.

Still, I’d recommend picking it up if you’re interested in the storyline from this little review. The series shows a lot of promise, and aside from the small hiccup of the pacing problems, I’m still excited and eagerly awaiting God Complex #4! Hooray Image Comics!

 

Wow, that’s actually taken up a lot more space than I expected. Guess I got a little long-winded in my excitedness over these issues! :) I’ll go ahead and leave it here, and tune in next week for a review of Kevin Smith’s new film (as a director only), “Cop-Out”!