By Sam Christopher
Outside of DC’s Blackest Night event, a couple other books dealing with the walking dead have come and gone in the last few weeks. IDW’s We Will Bury You #2 continues the great story with Mirah and Fanya on the run through the streets of New York, running from the murder of Fanya’s husband, along with the rising sea of hungry dead all around them. They seek refuge in various places, all the while trying to understand the changing paradigm of their world and figure out their place in it. I know, I know, sounds really flowery, doesn’t it? Bottom line here is that Brea Grant and Zane Austin Grant (they list them separately that way in the book) have come up with an interesting front piece to place on the backdrop of the more familiar zombie plague, and Kyle Strahm has painted these two pieces of narrative together in a fun and near-fascinating way. Excellent stuff.
Then there’s Zenescope’s The Waking #2 in which the story gets stranger. Or maybe just weirder. Maybe the dead are coming back in this story in order to get their revenge for whatever happened to them in life. Or maybe that’s just what we’re seeing here because the dead can think and we’re just getting this guy’s story. Seems like the little girl’s, too, but that may not be right. I know I’m not being clear here. But I really don’t like jumping the gun on things like this, and I always, always, always, would rather be surprised by a story than not. Raven Gregory does an excellent job of continuing the mystery while unveiling just a little bit more here, with some good Vic Drujiniu artwork.
