I just zipped through Death Valley, the first volume of Boom Studios' fun, clever zombie graphic novels. Death Valley follows the traditional zombie narrative: a few survivors left over after some Terrible Thing zombifies everyone else — but with the gimmick that these survivors are a Breakfast Club mishmash of Hollywood teenagers whose world ends on graduation day. It's like John Hughes meets George Romero, a great mix of bathos and pathos. The art is great: manga-inflected, but clearly American, and the dialog just snaps off the page. The teenagers are pretty blase about the whole end of the world thing, which probably would have pissed me off if this had gone on much longer, but this is such a quick read that it didn't really get to me. I've got the whole series of Boom Studios books and if this is any indication of the overall quality, I can't wait to dig into 'em.
Death Valley: a graphic novel that's like John Hughes vs George Romero
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