Good Horror Comics: Victorian Undead

[espanolbot]

Well October is well underway, so I thought that I'd share some of my favourite horror comics, starting with Victorian Undead, a surprisingly fun comic by Scarlet Traces' Ian Edginton where Sherlock Holmes battles zombies!





Released several years ago in the midst of the zombie invasion of all parts of pop culture, VU isn't so much the chea cash-in you'd expect, but rather a fun adventure story featuring versions of the characters accurate to the books that combines Holmes, zombies, plans for global conquest and the beginnings of a steampunk universe all meshed together in a neat package.

Recommended if you can track it and its sequel (Dracula shows up) down, a lot of fun, even for people like myself who aren't really fans of the zombie genre.

Oh, and if you think that this is far fetched, remember the origin books had a culprit who was a man being turned into a monkey-mutant due to a botched attempt at recapturing his virility to impress his younger possible fiance. That's not even getting into how the tone of the ACD stories could vary wildly in tone, from the gothic horror of Hound of the Baskervilles to lighter hearted pseudo-comedy like the Red Headed League to political thrillers like The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.

Holmes is like Batman, you can use him in any setting and most of the time it'd work.

Anyways, up next: Anya's Ghost

Comments

Overlooked masterpiece

[hyperanthropos]

I'm glad somebody finally posted scans to "Victorian Undead." Bought a few years ago on a whim, I expected this book to be more of a satire than a serious story (not that it still wouldn't be good). Instead I found to my delightful surprise a work that faithfully adapts elements of both the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Zombie-Apocalypse-Genre and combines them successfully. Definetly worth a movie adaption.

[damar148]

This was a really good story, and one of the more believeable attempts at making a zombie apocalypse work with the villain preparing it cleverly yet still have the authorities be competent.