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ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE RECORDED ATTACKS GN
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Its by the guy who made WWZ and The Zombie Survival Guide (I think). I might get it seems it could be interesting.
Ask and you shall receive. I wrote this a year ago for Kirkus Reviews.
The Zombie Survival Guide:
Recorded Attacks
Max Brooks
Illustrated by Ibraim Roberson
Three Rivers/Crown / October / 9780307405777
$16.95 paperback
Fans of zombie lore rejoice—Max Brooks renders the end of days chronicled in The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) and World ar Z (2006) with this graphic adaptation of history’s most gruesome Recorded Attacks. “I wanted to do The Zombie Survival Guide as a graphic novel, even before I wrote World War Z,” says Brooks. “I’ve always loved the concept of visual storytelling. I am very dyslexic and, as a kid, sometimes comics were the only way I could process information.” The book vividly portrays survivor accounts of historical zombie encounters with artwork by emerging Brazilian artist
Ibraim Roberson. “I had always wanted to ‘flesh out’ the recorded attacks, not just for their ‘zombieness,’ but because I’m a huge lover of history and I’m always trying to find ways to inject it into my work,” says the author. “Here details are everything. I wanted these stories to be as realistic as possible, right down to the fashion, architecture, technology and even the facial hair of each period.” Brooks admits that this book is one of the most challenging projects he’s ever done—and he had ample legwork to do to get it off the ground. “I gave myself a mountain of extra homework trying to find accurate historical representations of each period to pass on to the artist,” he says. “For every hour I spent writing the actual script, I must have spent three trying to find pictures of
Roman armor, or the hold of a slave ship, or North African fort of the French foreign
legion. I guess I’m still making up for all that homework I never did in college.”
I’ve actually been waiting for this for months now.
I love Zombie Survival Guide as a whole; but my favorite section was the recorded attacks. This could be really good, if handled properly.
I got my copy on October 2nd. I pre-ordered it through Chapter.Indigo here in Canada and for some reason it arived at the store six days earlier than it was supposed to hit shelves(I’m not going to complain). This Graphic Novel is really heavy on the Graphic and not so much on the Novel. The black & white illustrations are nice but there is little in the way of dialogue. Sadly, I read through this trade in under 15 minutes but it was still a good 15 minutes and worth the price tag(even though it was costly in comparison to trades for other publishers) if your a World War Z fan or just like zombies in general( we need something to fill the time till the next issue of The Walking Dead comes out).