The Extinction Parade
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W: Max Brooks A:Raulo Caceres
Full colour
Titan collection trade (vol.1)
160 pages
ISBN 9781592912346
£14.99 $19.99
Another book full of Avatar Comics well known brand of so far over the top gore and violence that calling it "over the top" is getting to be rather prosaic.
The story, well, I read it unlike most other reviewers who seem to be wetting themselves that Max Brooks wrote this. sigh
So, here goes:
Max Brooks, the best selling Zombie writer in history, unleashes an all-new horror epic! As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the sub-dead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off.
This is the story of the vampire's decent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all!
This collected edition contains the entire first chapter of Extinction Parade (ssues #1-5) and a massive undead cover gallery! Max Brooks' best-selling novel, World War Z, has been adapted into one of 2013's biggest blockbuster movie releases, bringing increased media attention to this acclaimed author.
Legendary Pictures announced they have optioned Extinction Parade for a TV series.
Right, wetting your knickers yet? I've read the World War Z script. "Best selling zombie writer in history" now this is either very badly phrased English or Max Brooks is a zombie in reality. If that is the case then yeah, hot ziggedy doo-dah he deserves praise because those things can barely walk let alone hold a pen or type! If they mean he is "the best selling zombie genre writer" then all I have to say is..meh.
There is nothing new here. Zombies. They were BIG in the 1980s and by now, like rap music, should be a dead genre. Humans are dying off and becoming zombies which vampires think is a laugh until they realise their "food" is dying off. Wow that is "so" original, isn't it? Literature for the not-so-bright or someone who wants a quick read in a lunch break.
The art, well, not a lot I can show because CBO tries to be family friendly as well as take into account that some of our visitors overseas might get into trouble if caught viewing certain content. If you think that's restrictive **** off.
Blood coming from eyes, rotting corpses, graphic gore and blood splattering everywhere is to (prosaic phrase coming up) over the top that it is just boring. Boring, boring, boring -and I have been a huge horror movie/comics fan all my life!
Here is where the absolute stupidity and dullard thinking shows through: all of this graphic gore and, as the two female characters walk out of the bedroom after an obvious (though not shown) night of saphic delight, the one naked female has her breasts covered by the other who also covers up said naked lady's "magic furry fairy purse" (sigh. You realise that is a euphemism for "vagina", right?) by holding a towel in boob covering arm. And disrobing later the naked lady has her bottom covered up by a guy holding her robe.
Seriously? "Let's intimate these women are lesbians and naked at certain points but do not show that! But let's show them in a double pager leaving a blood covered body with blood spattered everywhere!"
This is not the greatest artwork but I think that might just be the gore and blood masking the art...or its improving it.
As I've already written, this is tedious and boring and just plain awful. Not a single redeeming feature that I could find.
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