Night of the Living Dead Back From the Grave

    (Avatar, 2006)
™ and © Avatar Press, Inc.

The point of a promotional item like this is to raise anticipation for the actual story—in this case George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead: The Beginning. In that regard, this item fails. Charging $2.99 for an 8-page story and a collection of preview covers that Avatar hopes collectors will buy multiple copies of in order to acquire the variant cover art… that’s kind of low. And while the story shows a higher level of characterization and care for its cast than a typical horror story (Mike Wolfer adapts a story by the original film’s screenwriter, John Russo), it leaves the salesman’s duties to the able artwork of Sebastian Fumara.

If this is just the first 8 pages of the book, save your money and satisfy yourself with this: three kids go into the woods. Two of them are killed by zombies. The end.

— Brendan McGinley
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  • 1/A
    #1 Variation A
    Regular Cover A by Jacen Burrows
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $2.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Sebastián Fiumara, Tim Vigil, Jacen Burrows, Matt Busch, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $7.98
  • 1/C
    #1 Variation C
    Rotting Cover C by Sebastián Fiumara
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $2.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Sebastián Fiumara, Tim Vigil, Jacen Burrows, Matt Busch, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $3.00
  • 1/F
    #1 Variation F
    Headshot Cover F by Jacen Burrows
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Sebastián Fiumara, Tim Vigil, Jacen Burrows, Matt Busch, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $4.50
  • 1/M
    #1 Variation M
    Good Eats Cover M by Juan José Ryp
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Sebastián Fiumara, Tim Vigil, Jacen Burrows, Matt Busch, Mike Wolfer
    Limited to 1000
    1 copy for $24.00
  • 1/N
    #1 Variation N
    Rubira Painted Cover N by Lucio Rubira
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Sebastián Fiumara, Tim Vigil, Jacen Burrows, Matt Busch, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $5.00