If there is one thing in this world I love more then anything else (other then comics) it would be Zombies. I can’t explain why that is though, because zombies are one of the more terrifying monsters of horror. You can’t reason with them, you got to be a good shot in order to really kill them, basically they are unstoppable killing machines. Plus the idea of getting eaten alive is still disturbing to me. But fear not if you are afraid of these creatures like I am! Because Max Brooks has carefully provided a wealth of information to stop the beasts with his own survival guide.

One of my favorite aspects of the guide is the recorded attacks. Brooks wrote a series of ‘historical’ findings of zombies literally attacking civilizations. From cavemen to Vikings and from Romans to modern life; there have supposeitely been a wealth of attacks by zombies. Brooks brilliantly wrote these sequences to show how actual historical moments in our life as people can be explained by the sillest idea. It worked in prose form and now seeing it in a more graphical view makes it even more interesting.

Ibraim Roberson is a very good artist and he was the right man for the job. Granted I never heard of him before this trade, but he provides an excellent realistic view of these attacks. He’s got the right outfits for each era and civilization, and his designs are really detailed. When you see a caveman or a Roman soilder, it really is striking because it looks so lifelike. The zombies themselves are very gross and the bite marks are really disturbing to see. If there is one thing I could say is that I find he uses the same poses too many times. Maybe it’s just because a zombie walking gets boring after seeing it too many times, but still it would’ve been nice to see more interesting poses. Either way this is definitely a good looking book for a horror fan.

So it’s involved with a great concept and it has some great artwork to boot. So why am I still saying this isn’t worth actual purchase? Well to be perfectly honest, this read way to fast. In fact this was not a very deep book in terms of content. I’m not saying it’s not interesting or the ideas involved aren’t good. It’s just that this is a very quick 144 page read, almost like reading Walking Dead in issues. Fun and exciting but it ends way to quick for my liking. This is still a nice book and I’m going to rate it highly. But this is more of an extra or a nice treat for fans of the book, maybe they’ll package this and the original book together in the future. For anyone else (such as non-fans or haven’t read it at all) this is going to be way to quick of a read for almost twenty bucks. Considering I rarely use prices as a way to judge something on this site; that should mean something.