Zombies: The true zombies created through biochemical means based upon the poison tetrodotoxin found in various marine life are victims of a criminal act that places them in coma-like states. Upon awakening, the cultural influences combined with the damage to their brains makes them easy prey to cultists who usually force them into slave labor--a use that Morrison employs in Klarion. The mining scenes are very reminiscent of the Hammer classic Plague of Zombies. Read Full Review

As for the story itself, small community ruled through religious fear, elders hiding a secret about the outside world, teenager bravely rebels and finds the truth. Its The Village meets The Crucible. But its done very well. Read Full Review

Thanks to a few useful allies (a sympathetic Father, his cat Teekl), Klarion has an edge on the other kids. But also thanks to his own innate cleverness, hes more prepared than others when real true evil rears its deadly and hideous head. Good cliffhanger, and yet another example of Morrison creating his own self-contained multi-title crisis with help only from some of the best artists around. If DC was only Vertigo, this is how it would look. Read Full Review

Klarion is a very strange comic, but its wonderfully written and drawn, and is very intriguing. Of the four first issues so far of the Seven Soldiers series, its my favorite. Read Full Review

This is the first time I'm come across Frazer Irving's work and I have to say it's a prefect match for the material, as the dark, decidedly dreary nature of Klarion's world is extremely well realized. This community looks like it was designed by Tim Burton, and there's numerous unsettling visual elements that the art does a lovely job visually presenting to the reading audience, such as the deeply disturbing sequence where the dead are transformed into a slave race. There's also a great panel that sets Kalrion apart from the community with the crowd completely caught up in the impassioned speech of the town leader, while Klarion's expression remains quite dubious about the experience. In fact the only real quibble that I would make about the art is that it could've done a better job of selling the idea that Klarion was viewing the secret meeting through his cat's eyes, as the idea wasn't presented all that clearly, and I didn't pick up on it until the second reading. Read Full Review