Night of the Living Dead: Barbara’s Zombie Chronicles by Joel Moen
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Overview: Barbara’s Zombie Chronicles takes place five years after the original Night of the Living Dead, and seems to completely ignore everything that came from Dawn and Day (aside from little nods – but nothing tangible in terms of continuity). The world is overrun, and somehow only rednecks and crazy people have survived. As implied in the title, the book focuses on Barbara – the traumatized blonde of the 1968 original – who has come full circle since her initial night with the living dead, now toting firearms and sporting tank-tops in a way not seen since Ellen Ripley of the Aliens films. The moment I saw this (roughly five pages in), everything became abundantly clear. This comic was going to be trouble.
As is usually the problem with horror comics, Night of the Living Dead: Barbara’s Zombie Chronicles starts off very nicely, with a fairly accurate recap of the horror that Barbara witnessed in the original film. Everyone is recognizable, including (and with amazing accuracy) the Cemetery Zombie, but once Barbara snaps to and yanks us out of the dream sequence, all that comes to an end. Here, you are slapped in the face with the most immediate and serious problem: the artwork is awful. "Scrub-my-eyes-with-steel-wool" awful. Mad Magazine caricatures are more proportionately accurate than the people in this book, and anything that should be scary or horrific inspires about as much reaction as a death in an Argento film; gory, but over the top, cheap and ugly, and doesn’t really "frighten" anyone who may be viewing. The zombies that plague the world also don’t exactly instil fear the way they normally would. In fact, for being the dominant genus or race they’re notably absent for large chunks of the book, more often referred to in overly drawn out anecdotes than actually shown. Okay, sure, the focus here is Barbara, but this is still Night of the Living Dead.
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