Fantastic Four: Foes

Fantastic Four: Noes.

RATING: 17%

The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Everybody always kept telling me how amazing this comic series by Robert Kirkman was, and how it was especially up my alley since I like zombie movies, etc. I bought the first trade the other day and read it, and while it is good, I just don't see what it adds to the current zombie dialogue. It basically reads like a George Romero movie - zombies happen, society collapses, pockets of survivors band together, their own strife is their undoing. I was hoping for some huge twist at the end of this trade, but as it stands I just don't see myself continuing to buy these collections. One good thing is that because it's done in greyscale, the volumes are less expensive, but I just feel like I'll end up being bored and staying that way, and that's a serious medical dilemma.

RATING: 57%

Marvel Team Up Vol 1: The Golden Child

I know that I can be excused for liking a terrible book when I was eleven, but I have to say that when Marvel Team Up was being published when I was twenty-five, I kind of liked it a lot, but now rereading it it turns out it was also not especially good. The premise is various Marvel heroes team up to fight bad guys. I have to respect it for using a lot of the Marvel Universe, which many books don't, but it loses points for having awful dialogue and having Spider-man be in practically every issue. Hey, I like Spider-man, but does Batman show up in every DC... well, I guess that's a bad example. Anyway, I guess it's a mediocre book that has pretty art so what do you want, a medal?

RATING: 54%

Marvel Zombies

Marvel Zombies, started in the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four, imagines a world in which every super powered individual on Earth (well, I guess that's already an imagined world to begin with) has been transformed into a flesh eating zombie. They retain their personalities (except for the morality part), so they're not the mindless slugs of Romero's films. Anyway, the interior art is gorgeous, and Arthur Sudyam's zombification of famous Marvel covers is also a lot of fun. Robert Kirkman is the writer, and he is pretty capable when it comes to the Marvel Universe and/or zombies. So check it out I guess, it's got some great turns.

RATING: 67%