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Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection

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Editorial Reviews

The year is 2011, and what starts as a pervasive and inexplicable illness ends up as a zombie infestation that devastates the world's population. Taking the form of a biologist's illustrated journal found in the aftermath of the attack, this pulse-pounding, suspenseful tale of zombie apocalypse follows the narrator as he flees from city to countryside and heads north to Canada, where he hopes the undead will be slowed by the colder climate. Encountering scattered humans and scores of the infected along the way, he fills his notebook with graphic drawings of the zombies and careful observations of their behavior, along with terrifying tales of survival. This frightening new contribution to the massively popular zombie resurgence will keep fans on the edge of their seats right up to the very end.

Customer Reviews

Awesome book.

Reviewed by Deimos, 2010-03-07

This is a great realistic book showing a documented history of a Zombie invasion. The drawings are excellent and remind me of the zombies from Romero's classics. The story is creepy and the ending is quite scary. Great book for any zombie fan.

A Truly Visceral Experience

Reviewed by Sacramento Book Review, 2010-02-28

Dr. Robert Twombly is living a nightmare. A mysterious infection is causing millions to die, only for them to rise as zombies and attack the living. He is one of the survivors, having barricaded himself in his lab with a few others. Food supplies are low. Hope is dwindling. This is his journal.

//Zombies// plunges the readers directly into the action, quickly bringing us up to speed, as well as horrifying us with details both analytical and visceral. Twombly is an admirable narrator, seeking to understand both the infection and its results, a scientist to the last.

The illustrations are purposely rough, more to evoke a mood than anything else, and they're terribly effective.

Sadly, we learn very little about who Twombly was before the outbreak, but this is intentional, leaving him a blank slate onto which the reader can project his or her own fears and experiences. Twombly becomes any of us, trapped in similar circumstances.

//Zombies// follows the fine tradition of other "in the now" works -- like the tremendous //World War Z// -- and it's an excellent addition to the genre. It's real enough to unsettle you, and that makes for a great read.

Reviewed by Glenn Dallas

Great read but could have been a little more

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2010-02-15

This was a great read. It does not equal but comes close to some of the other great stuff like WWZ and Day-by-Day Armageddon. I have been disappointed by the Zombie genre lately with books like Eden, Lakewood Memorial, and the As the world dies series (the absolute worst, do not but). This book is highly original by giving a lead character who is a normal person/scientist and a little timid. Lots of the stuff out there is self inflated gamer ego play, but this makes you feel for the characters and entertains in a new way. I would have give 5 stars but for two factors; it was a little short and the food additive zombie effect. Another plus was the great artwork. Bravo overall.

Fun easy read

Reviewed by ThatPoshGirl, 2010-01-16

I'm a huge fan of the zombie genre, and I really enjoyed this graphic novel. It is a very fun and easy read when you are looking for mindless entertainment. I thought the format was clever, but overall I can't say the book really brought anything new or innovative to the genre. It's more or less documents the cliches of the genre in a humorous way. As fun as that was, it wasn't ground breaking or earth shattering in any way. I would have liked for the author to take things a little further and bring something new on board. Even when that drawback, though, I think it is enjoyable and worth the read for any zombie fans.

Nice coffee table book

Reviewed by Robert L. Smith IV, 2010-01-12

So, I got this based on the illustrations alone and didn't really expect a literary masterpiece in the story attached. And it seemed my expectations were right as the story is very lackluster and reads like a children's zombie story, like the author was just figuring it out as they wrote it.. Then, it hit me, that's how the story is supposed to read(at least I think?). This man was plopped right into the middle of the zombie apocalypse and basically has turned into a child writing a zombie story in a mans body. The whole thing is written in legible chicken scratch writing complete with scratched out words and questions to himself, completed by the sometimes beautifully brutal illustrations. I say sometimes because some of the illustrastions seemed to be done by a different artist, done poorly in what looks like charcoal.

Anyway, this is a great coffee table book to have sitting around and it's easy to read within a half hour. Some of the illustrations are really worth the price alone and I have a feeling that's how they meant it to be ;)