IT'S ZOMBIES VS VAMPIRES VS AN INVADING MILITIA AS THE LEGENDARY GEORGE ROMERO UNLEASHES THE NEXT CHAPTER IN HIS UNDEAD EPIC!
• Welcome back to New York City years after a world-changing undead plague-and now outside forces are knocking on Manhattan's walls!
• What's worse, the roaming flesh-eaters who seem to be growing smarter every day...the ruling blood-suckers struggling to keep their grip on power...or the Southern army bent on pillaging the greatest city in the world?
George A. Romero works to keep the zombie genre he created fresh and interesting by creating "aware" undead and skillfully adding in a vampire element. It doesn't feel forced or contrived. I was let down that Alex Maleev didn't pick up the pencils for Act Two and feel the series suffers a bit for it though Dalibor Talajic's art does work well here. Read Full Review
Empire of the Dead is not a great comic but I can't deny that I really like it. Maybe it's just that we've had so many zombie stories lately about the brutal dark nature of man (IE the most boring focus for a zombie story) that zombie fiction straying away from that focus just seems infinitely better by comparison (hence why I tend to dislike The Last of Us but praise the World War Z movie.) I realize though that I'm not the majority in this taste and there's a chance you'll see this as not nearly dark enough for you palette and even so I have to concede there are problems with repeating past themes and the very poorly implemented vampires which just feel like lazy symbolic shorthand. Overall though like I said I liked Empire of the Dead and there's a good chance you will too, I recommend it. Read Full Review
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