A Look At "Zombies! feast"

On a whim I picked up IDW's new title "Zombies! feast" yesterday at The Vault of Midnight (Who, by the way, have made the move into their amazing new store. Of all the comic shops I have ever had the pleasure to check out, I have to say the new digs are at the top of the list. If you find yourself in the A2 area be sure to check them out!) Anyway, as I was saying... Anybody who knows me knows that I'm a sucker for Zombies. Now if you are familiar with Zombie comics of late then you know that means I have been burnt my fair share of times spending money on crap with a cool cover...

But I'm happy to report that isn't the case with "Zombies! feast"

Shane McCarthy's writing style lends itself well to the genre, and he manages to keep the tension up throughout what is a very slowly paced book. Hardly anything happens in this first issue, in fact the characters only interact with a single zombie through the whole book. This is not a complaint, in fact, I mean it as praise. McCarthy seems to be more interested in setting up his story then just taking the easy way out and flooding the panels with random gore and zombie attacks.

And Chris Bolton's art does a fine job of telling the story, although some would argue that his stuff is occasionally amateurish looking, I found it to be fresh, and his panel to panel storytelling really flows. The book even does one of my pet peeves in comics, that being the obvious use of computers to manipulate the art work, but I found myself not really minding because I was so engrossed in the book.

Unfortunately this book will suffer the inevitable comparisons to Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore's "The Walking Dead" because they both seem to take their subject matter seriously. But that isn't really fair, that's like comparing me to Basil Gogos!

I'm really looking forward to issue #2!

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