ZombieWorld: Winter's Dregs and Other Stories

The end of the world is near. The dead walk the earth and feed on the flesh of the living. The remnants of humanity struggle for survival in a sickening nightmare that has become reality. The birth of a terrifying new world is at hand. Zombie World, the comic-book series that set the standard for comics of the undead is back in a massive trade paperback. Bob Fingerman and Tommy Lee Edwards take us into the darkened subway tunnels of New York, where the rats aren't the only things that bite, in the critically-acclaimed "Winter's Dregs." Kelley Jones spins his own twisted tale of love and the undead in "Eat Your Heart Out". A family's Christmas gathering has a few unexpected arrivals in Gordon Rennie and Gary Erskine's "Home For The Holidays." And the apocalypse proves to be more horrifying than anyone ever imagined in Pat Mills and J. Deadstock's "Tree of Death."

From Booklist

Fingerman and company's collection rounds up all the short-run comic Zombie World except Champion of the Worms (1997), a second edition of which is due soon. Fingerman richly deserves shared top billing with artist Tommy Lee Edwards for the long title story, in which pods of murderously aggressive rats kill people who subsequently arise and behave likewise. A homeless 'Nam vet and a ruined baby-wear store owner are the only major characters left at the end of an exhilaratingly horrific romp that Edwards draws to look like a scuffed Batman movie and that Fingerman accents with an outrageous satiric jab at a recent, controversial mayor of New York. The book's other long piece, "Tree of Death," continues the characters of Champion of the Worms but undercuts its apocalyptic story with jokey, Daliesque artwork--all virtuosic enough, to be sure--by J. Deadstock. Of the two short stories, Kelley Jones' "Eat Your Heart Out" exuberantly echoes the style of premier horror comic Tales from the Crypt, and Gordon Rennie and Gary Erskine's "Home for the Holidays" stands comfort and joy firmly on end. Ray OlsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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