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 Variation A (Regular Cover A by Jacen Burrows)

August, 2006
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $7.98

John Russo, Mike Wolfer