I'm not gon give up I'm not gon stop I'm gon work harder

[stubbleupdate]

Revival is one of two great new series* that I've started reading in the last year. When it was announced I avoided it because... zombies, but I heard enough good things to give it a go. I'm only a trade reader though, so I'm an issue or two behind (which is a shame because the cover to #20 looks majestic. They recently did a one-shot crossing over with Chew and while there are some spoilers for Chew, you don't need to know too much about either series to enjoy the issue properly.

It's a deeply unsettling book. I'm not kidding when I say that a hopper full of teeth wasn't close to being the worst thing that I read in the 3rd trade (and I'm massively grateful that I read it outside, on a sunny day)
If you are thinking about getting on the Revival train, or are a Chew reader who wants to know the ackground of Revival, here's a handy catch up guide from the third trade, or issue #12. I might do a post on the covers later, as Jenny Frisson's work is excellent







It's brilliant. And the horror of that last page is nowhere near as bad as other parts of the book. Don't read it last thing at night.
*The other is the Eisner nominated High Crimes. It's excellent

Comments

[mrstatham]

I actually found it to be one of those books that is somehow rather difficult to get into, since the concept is already heavily established and has been going on for a while, and it's obviously playing out as something of a rural mystery. But.. At the same time, it was incredibly rewarding once properly gotten into. It's a very different approach to a horribly familiar subject, these days, in zombies, and that alone makes it worth reading.

Revival's another feather in Image's cap, really. They're building up quite a few, these days.

[icon_uk]

Reintegrating the risen dead back into society seems to be the new "thing". BBC's "In the Flesh", comic book iZombie, France's Les Revenants/The Returned...

[shadowpsykie]

Also Resurrection (on ABC) i swear that show is amazing. i can usually follow the threads of a show fairly well. But this show has me constantly going WTF! and WHAT'S HAPPENING! It's an amazing show if only for the fact that i legitimately don't know what the hell is going on....

[sir_razorback]

I think there's definitely something in the air right now, and it smells like decayed flesh. A show coming out on CW soon is titled "iZombie". The main chr can pass as human, but she needs to eat a brain a month to maintain her mind. Oh, and BTW, she can absorb her lunch's memories this way, so why not solve crimes?

Found out while researching the show abit that it's based on a comic, to boot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IZOMBIE

[sir_razorback]

How did I manage to not read the tail end of this before I wrote my other reply? :/