It would be really easy to say that IZombie by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred jumped on the zombie band wagon. We live in a very zombie culture. You can find zombies in your video games (Left4 Dead, House of the Dead, Dead Rising, Red Dead Redemption...) and on television (The Walking Dead) and in comic books (Walking Dead, Evil Dead). Throw a vampire, ghost and werewolf (if you want to be specific, IZombie has a wereterrier not a werewolf) in the mix, and you could have covered all of the bases in the current trends of pop culture for the past couple of years.If a person is going to do anything with a very recognizable classic monster, you would have to do something completely different. Shambling mindless hordes bent on the destruction and mankind through their cranial cavity has been done lots of times. What makes IZombie an interesting read and stand out from all the other zombie books out there, is that it is old from the zombies point of view.
In the first graphic novel of this series you meet Gwen who is just trying to figure out the best way not to become a B- rated Bruce Campbell Army of Darkness extra and make her way in life with out being found out about her delicate eating habits. With out giving away everything in volume one, the story gives you a really good back ground into the lore and sets the stage for some interesting developments.
I think that the art is really well done, and the story line is knit together in a seamless fashion. I am looking forward to reading the next volume. I would recommend this to any one that is interested in any of the classic horror lore, because this truly does have a little bit of everything in it with a good does of tongue in cheek amusement.
