Zombie King

(Image, 2005)
™ and ©2005 Frank Cho

If you needed proof that Frank Cho can draw more than zaftig women, here’s a comic book with nary a woman in sight. Anyone even slightly familiar with the modern zombie genre won’t find anything new or original in the opening salvo of his new series; there are calculating corporate types mucking about with things they shouldn’t, innocent bystanders, and, yes, a zombie.

Except that here the zombies want to, um, breed with us as badly as they want to eat us. This is demonstrated in a graphic sequence between said zombie and an unfortunate cow I don’t think even Preacher creator Garth Ennis would want to see.

I’m not the world’s biggest zombie fan but even I have to admit Cho handles the material well. A lot of walking-dead comics today depict the monsters as little more than murky smudges, but he knows the dubious fun is to be found in gruesome details of rotting anatomy. If you have to do this genre at all, this is how you do it.

— S. A. Bennett

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June, 2005
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