I Am Legend

by Steve Niles (Adaptation), Elman Brown (illustrator), Richard Matheson (Story)

Richard Matheson's classic novel of fear and vampirism - the tale of the last human on an Earth overrun by the undead - returns to graphic novel format in a single volume collection of four long out-of-print books.

Genres: Horror, Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Vampires, Post Apocalyptic

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

STEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."

Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.

Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[Richard Dominguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very fast paced story that engages from the start to the end.
Well worth a read ...

[Whitley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This adaptation by Steve Niles with art by the great Elman Brown is a real pleasure. The story flows, the illustrations deserve an award, and the emotional impact is intense. This is something quite special.

[Edward Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here in all of its deep dark psychological warfare glory is Richard Matheson's seminal horror masterpiece: I Am Legend. Steven Niles adapts the ENTIRE story for the visual realm (thanks to Elman Brown) and pulls no punches as we see Robert Nevill, thought to be the last man on a planet conquered by a vampiric race of creatures that used to be his friends, family, and neighbors, while slowly slide into a pit of horrific depression that knows no bottom. During the day, Nevill hunts the beasts, but at night they haunt and hunt him all the same. As he tries in vain to figure out the cause and possible cure for the disease that caused the plague of the living dead, the creatures too search for a way to end the life of the last man on earth. The end is truly one of the best in all of the horror universe in my humble opinion and really is a legend.

[Star Gater · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rated this 4.5 stars as I was impressed that there wasn't one swear/cuss/profane word. And, an author who is less confident than Matheson would have trashed this tale up.

Matheson wrote an amazing story. I wasn't drawn in right away; it took probably 30 pages and a reread of the synopsis for me to settle in. As I resonated over 24 hours, the realization set in, the storytelling is so well done, it gave me vibes of a radio drama. He left no stones unturned.

There is something affecting the people, changing them into vampires (it's in the synopsis). This is not The Walking Dead apocalypse. The discussions of food stood out to me, and I don't want to spoil. The beauty is in the details. Pay close attention to the food path, it could possibly help you in a storm. Hearing your own voice? Do you talk to yourself? Do you help a neighbor or let them fend for themselves? These are just personal issues. The problems are bigger, and they are outside and all around you. The ending I begrudgingly admit was right; however, eww I saw red with the kiss and cried (baby cried).

This showcases brilliantly not giving up and helping yourself.

Thank you to YouTuber Pax at I Am Paximus for drawing my name and I am Legend. Otherwise, I would have never picked it up.

[Karo Ulloa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the adaptation is well done and that the illustrations are great. Some of the strategies used, such as the blurring of the boundaries between Neville and the vampires and the speech balloons for Cortman worked great. However, it is too faithful—there is no risk with the adaptation whatsoever. I know this is announced from the beginning, which is why almost everything on the text is used as written by Matheson in the novel. However, I was expecting an authorial turn that was never there. And that is not to my liking. For those who look forward to fidelity: this is the graphic novel for you. For those who are looking for a new claim in relation to the primary work, I would not recommend it.

[Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy fiel al libro original. Si te gusta el libro te recomiendo leerla.

[Nazım · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hani yemek yerken açtığımız, izlemesek bile konusunu kaçırmayacağımız, çok dikkatimizi istemeyen “atıştırmalık” diziler gibi bir çizgi romana ihtiyaç duyduğum günlerde bu kitaba başladım. Sadece metroda gidip gelirken kafa yormayacağım bir şeyler okumaktı niyetim. Zaten öyle çok zombisiydi, vampiriydi hikayelerin adamı da değilim. Üstelik hikayenin, romandan çizgi romana bir uyarlama olduğunu görünce iyice sulandırılmış bir hikaye okuyacağımı ve dost meclisinde geyik yapacak malzeme bulduğumu düşündüm. Kitaptan uyarlanan ve Will Smith’in oynadığı filmi de izlemiştim. Yani kendi kafamda süprize yer bırakmamıştım.
Ama kitap gerek içerik gerek çizgi ve anlatım tekniği olarak beni fazlasıyla şaşırttı. İnsanların bir bakteriden ötürü vampirlere dönüştüğü fantastik bir dönemde kahramanımız Robert Neville, sığındığı ve bir kale haline dönüştürdüğü evinin içersinde vampirlerden saklanmaktadır. Kitap, neredeyse ilk yarısında yukarıda saydığım minvalde, hiç hayrete düşürmeden-şaşırtmadan bütün hollywood zombi/vampir klişelerini göstererek ilerliyor. Ama sonra bizim gibi kahramanımız Robert’ta bu klişelerden sıkılmış olacak ki “ya kardeş tamam sarmısak ama niye sarmısak? Vampirlerin kalbine kazık çakıyoruz ama ben cerrah mıyım? Her seferinde kalbi nasıl tutturuyorum? Hadi bunu da geçtim haç ne alaka? Yok mu bu vampirlerin arasında Müslümanı Yahudisi?” gibi hepimizin yaptığı sorgulamaları yapıyor ve bir cevap aramaya başlıyor. İşte hikaye burada ilginçleşmeye başlıyor ve biz fark ediyoruz ki aslında yazarın bize anlatmak istediği şey bir zombi ya da vampir kıyameti değil. Bunlar finalde mükemmel bir plot twistle bitecek hikaye için kullanılan bir alegori. Daha fazla detay verip spoilera girmek istemiyorum. Ama şayet sizde kitabı görüp benim gibi uzak duranlardansanız muhakkak bir fırsat verin.

Bu kitabı okuduktan sonra Hollywood’tan bir kere daha nefret ettim.
Düşünün elinizde hali hazırda çok iyi bir öykü var. Ama siz bu öykünün en can alıcı yerini anlatmak yerine en boktan ama aksiyonlu tarafını anlatıp ilerlemeyi tercih ediyorsunuz. Bilemiyorum Altan.


Son olarak belirtmekte fayda var. Çizgi romanın uyarlandığı kitap Türkçeye çevrilmiş. “Ben, efsane” adı ile güncel olarak İthaki Yayınlarından ve çok daha eskilerde Milliyet yayınlarından “Hepimiz Vampiriz” adı ile çıkmış. Fakat çizgi roman halini türkçeye çeviren herhangi bir yayınevi olmamış. İnternette belirli forumlarda paylaşılan çok profesyonelce hazırlanmış bir “amatör” çeviri var. Gerçekten bir çok yayın evinden daha ustaca iş çıkarılmış hem grafik hem çeviri olarak. Basit bir internet araması ile bulunabilir. Bulamazsanız da haber edin paylaşayım.

[Tony Hactavish · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was 12 or 13 when i watched I am Legend and it's one of my favorite Zombie film. So recently i just find out that it was from a novel and adapted to a Graphic novel, also i discovered that the story is quite different from the movie. Luckily i found the graphic novel and i didn't quite like it at first but then at the middle to the last part is the miracle of the book happens, it's intense, frustrating, and beautiful. I must say the story in the book is WAY better, but i like Robert Neville character in the movie more than in the book but still i prefer the book. Really recommended if you're a fan of the movie or horror in general.

[Zai · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5

No se que esperaba de esta novela gráfica, pero seguro que no lo que me he encontrado, me acerqué a ella sin saber nada, ya que no leí ni la sipnosis, ni he leido el libro de Richard Matheson en que está basada y tampoco he visto la película.

Me he quedado un poco plof, al llegar al final aunque la novela es entretenida, y está maravillosamente ilustrada.

[[Name Redacted] · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brilliant graphic adaptation of Mattheson's classic novella.

Sadly the upcoming movie will be based more on "The Omega Man" than the original work.

[Ill D · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like many callow teens, my interest in vampires didn’t begin with Dracula. Neither the initial Bram Stoker novel that started it all, nor did the Christopher Lee silver screen adaptations spark my interest. Retrospectively cringe, it was the Underworld series of the the early 00’s began my interest in the blood-drinking, fanged immortals of the night. Yes the series is trash. Yes its dumb. I know better now but at the time I found its stylizations unforgettable.

Fast forward years and an ever-growing comic collection I was delighted through a casual rifling to dig up this vampire-centric comic. Although struck by the relevance of hunkering down in our age of world-wide lockdowns, my initial joy gave way to ennui due to quality which steadily waned.

Despite the typified horror characteristic of vampires and zombies, its more boobery here than anything. And since the protagonist has a working car and a perfectly stocked supermarket in the area, this is hardly a survival themed thriller. In fact, with a daily trip for groceries during the day… you know when vampire/zombie hybrids can’t like go outside… the level of tension rarely approaches anything close to a solid boil.

Anyways, other than some mostly competent visuals I found this read glaringly bland.

[Antônio Xerxenesky · Rating 2 out of 5]

(avaliação referente aos quadrinhos, que achei fraco porque não confia nas próprias imagens para contar a história, daí é uma chuva de off)

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a bit long-winded, but you could expect that from a tale that is mainly told from the perspective of one man's head. Particularly an intensely introspective, brash, macho, desperate man's head. Nonetheless, it is well animated and well-told. The movie concentrates so much on the habitual activity in already created comfort (which i appreciated for the first half). The book though explains more furtively how he came to live in such an accomodating environment. He has more humble surroundings, and it's more believable. He is also continually dealing with minor problems, like his generator and the meager security for his home. Also, the vampires are not superhuman. They are subhuman, like zombies--assigned to basically harass the living and eat them. They are not rational enough to figure they could burn down his boarded-up house. Rather, they throw rocks at it and call out his name, night after night.

This book really focuses on the neurotic aspect of the legend. One man, the only survivor in a world full of moronic assholes. It's sort of like the contrived existential crisis of your typical teenager, which is probably why this translates so well into a graphic novel. In a strong way, it's just about being lonely. The vampires are just a metaphor for cruel existence. or not, whatever.

The best part about the image, i think, is the really terrifying way the vampires are depicted. There is one, his neighbor, Ben Cortman, who shouts at him every night, "COME OUT NEVILLE!" It slowly drives him insane, to the point where, like in the movie, he confronts the vampire population in kamikaze style, attempting to take out as many as he can with his anger. But it doesn't stop short there. he survives, learns a new modesty, becomes a self-proclaimed "hermit." Then the real interesting concept, ***SPOILER ALERT*** he is visited by a woman claiming to be a survivor. But she's not. She's one of the new race, part of the mutation of vampire-humans who have inherited the earth. He finds himself to be the virus, the one thwart in their new evolution that is killing them off for no reason. It is an unsettling conclusion that the only protagonist becomes the only enemy. And it is brilliant for that, that snap.

I have to say that the title has an actual affect here, rather than the lame utterance given to it for sake of a titular line in the movie. It has credit here. As he realizes he no longer exists, his kind, his purpose. He will by mythologized, and that pain is releasing from the torment of his solitude. It is, unlike the film which cheapened it, an utterance or declaration of death--an absolving of the crap that has made his purgatory so withholding. He has been waiting to prove that the evolution will go on, and finding that it exists he falls prey to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of ambitious explorers: you can't find the new world without being it's new threat. And so his death is the liberation, from his real-world ego to the supreme one which he will be remembered by. the Legend.

[Mariel · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5.

“La normalidad era un concepto establecido por la mayoría. El estándar impuesto por muchos, y no el de un solo hombre.”

Mis variadas reacciones en todo el libro:







¿De qué trata la historia? De una horrible enfermedad que convierte a las personas en vampiros. Cuando lo vi, me había interesado porque recordé a la película que Will Smith protagonizó hace unos años y que de pequeña me perturbaba por el final tan triste. -No tan triste, ahora que he madurado xD-. Claramente, entre la adaptación de Will Smith y el libro hay un largo, largo trecho.

"La propia muerte seguía siendo una cosa que a uno le superaba."

¿Me gusto? Sí. Lo hizo. Las primeras y últimas páginas te las devorarás demasiado rápido. Ni siquiera notaba el pasar de las páginas porque tenía el alma en un hilo, sintiéndome DE VERDAD junto a Neville. Sin embargo, en la mitad, la historia decae un poco. Las páginas pasan de manera lenta y hasta pausaba el libro para leer otras cosas. Tiene muchas cositas científicas por ahí y si, ayuda un poco a que decaiga el libro pero habían otras que no mencionaré porque son spoilers. Es interesante como el autor le vio la parte racional al vampirismo.

Siento que la parte final comenzó a ocurrir tan rápido que ni siquiera me daba tiempo de respirar. Así como a Neville se le comenzaron a amontar todas las respuestas, eso mismo estaba ocurriendo conmigo. Sentía que me ahogaba por todo lo que estaba ocurriendo. Por eso, le bajo a 3.5: Porque es una impresionante rapidez todo lo que ocurre al final cuando ¡La parte de en medio pasa un tanto lenta!

Robert Neville es un personaje muy complejo; me compadecí de él en muchas ocasiones y más por ese final tan desgarrador. Ahora: Los dibujos. No me gusto mucho la forma en que los colocaron; habían momentos en los que literalmente sólo colocaban en una página los distintos gestos de Neville en una escena. ¿? Siento que aunque me gusto, dado que de vez en cuando era necesario, pero era demasiado repetitivo. Repito: No soy una experta en comics y novelas gráficas pero jamás había visto éste detalle en todo lo que he leído y en cierta forma, me cansó. Me gusto el detalle de que fuera en blanco y negro. Le daba un perfecto ambiente a la historia.

¿Lo recomiendo? Sí, para cualquiera que le guste el terror y la ciencia ficción. .

"Robert Neville, el último de una antigua raza."

[Dominica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the graphic novel adaption of Richard Mathieson's book. I picked it up because I was too lazy to read the original novel. Joke's on me, this is the wordiest comic book I have ever laid eyes on. Some of this text got skimmed, I admit, for two reasons. The first is that not all of the words are necessary, the pictures give you a pretty good idea of what's going on. But mainly, this book is so suspenseful, I was always dying to turn the page. The art is dated, but functional. The black and white, cross-hatch heavy illustrations are adequate, but nothing to phone home about.
The strength of this work is not the words or pictures, but the story itself, a compelling last-man-on-earth, survivalist tale. This book has a great set-up and an awesome ending. The scientific and psychological aspects of the tale and thoroughly and convincingly explored. I heard the movie version has a different ending, which is both necessary and regrettable. I raced to finish this book, and the last few pages proved I was right to hurry. See for yourself.

[Beatlesfan685 · Rating 4 out of 5]

i liked this book so much, i'm reading it again. this is a different view on Richard Matheson's classic novel. I've seen the movie and these are both very different. This is about a world taken over by vampires while the movie was about the world being taken over by an infectious disease. If I was to say which was better, I would say this. This book's art is beautiful and the story is simple yet great. I would recommend picking it up and at least reading a couple pages. It's great.

[VJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't see the movie, so had no idea this was a vampire story, but liked the scientific twist and attribution of vampire existence to germ theory.

[Leanna Hammond · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had already read the short story when I picked this up. The illustrations added something to the story, and I would definitely recommend to others.

[Sebastian Schwarz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect I'd rate it 10000000 stars if I could

[Manuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐4.5

[Vigneswara Prabhu · Rating 4 out of 5]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson was one of my earliest forays into Sci-fi. The book, the 1964 & 1971 adaptations as well. (Not the 2008 will smith version which was forgettable).

I suppose every dude has, at one point or another, pondered the hypothetical scenario when the world has ended, and they have to survive the fall of civilization much the Ron Swanson way. By building a bunker fortress, stacked with food and other necessities, armed to the teeth, ready to face the unknown from outside, Robinson Crusoe style. That, and which animal they think they can take in a fight.

The original 1954 version doesn't hold up when it comes to the origins of the vampiric pandemic, or the science surrounding their hemophilic traits. But the reason it has continued to endure in popular imagination, is not because of the surface level premise, which is shared by most works about the zombie apocalypse.

Rather, it's the deep dive into the mind of an individual who believes themselves to the last human on earth, and is waging an unending, often fanatical crusade against what he sees as the abominations that his fellow humans have turned into. The psychological trauma he experiences, dealing with loss, guilt, loneliness, emotional repression, and violent homicidal tendencies, that drive him to the brink of insanity. As well as how he transforms, from viewing himself as the last hope of humanity, to coming to the realization that humankind as he knew it has come to an end. And with it, his actions, which he felt were righteous, were in fact viewed with fear and hatred by the novo hominis that have come to inherit the world of man.

Viewing through their eyes, how he has turned into the monster that he was meant to be hunting. And the stark almost heart-breaking realization, that in this new world, he is the one in wrong. A world where he is the abomination, and a world he no longer has a place in.

Readers are treated to a whole roller coaster of emotions, as he goes through all this, and meets a melancholic end.

The visualization of that story, by Steve Niles, is able to capture that sense of dread, hopelessness, misery and loneliness which our protagonist Robert Neville goes through. The black and white, blurred visual aesthetic, with plenty of shadows and darkness, only serve to further accentuate these elevated feelings and atmosphere.

The monochrome treatment serves to take away any sense of hope or purpose which we might feel towards our main character and lets us experience just how dreary and unbearable existence has become to him. At the same time, keeping the action razor focused on Neville, giving our eyes little chance to wander over unimportant information in the background. Because first and foremost, he is the one we're meant to focus on.

After reading the whole thing in one sitting, I felt quite mentally exhausted and slightly nihilistic, which I think is the intended emotions the story was meant to invoke.

Go ahead and take a gander at this graphic adaptation, which does justice to the original work.

[Gabe Lara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book that I had read for this essay was the graphic novel version of “I am Legend”, I have yet to read the actual novel of I am Legend, but I can tell you what I liked about this version of the visual novel of I am Legend. One of the things I noticed with the visual novel to the movie was that the main character was a different race, but they have the same name in both the movie and the book. In the book, there were actual vampires, while in the movie, they were zombie-like vampires.

Now, I don’t want to be comparing the movie to the book, so I’ll mainly talk about the book instead.The first thing about the book; it isn’t the original book, it’s the visual novel/comic of I Am Legend. In the novel and the comic book, they tell the story of the last living human on earth, which the world is overrun with vampires, the main character, Robert Neville is the last human remaining on the earth with the whole world being overrun by bloodthirsty vampires, with him being the only one, he stays in his house at night, making sure his house is vampire-proof so none of them come into his house and kill him.

There are really good graphic scenes within the graphic novel that make it easier to see what is happening within a certain scene, compared to the actual novel of I Am Legend. However, I would like to talk about the differences from the graphic novel to the movie released within 2009. One of the key differences within the movie is that the world is overrun by zombie like vampires, while the book has the world overrun with actual vampires. Another key difference is that Robert in the movie has a dog with him in the beginning of the movie, while the graphic novel has Robert finding a dog within later in the book. I believe one major difference in the movie is that the main character is a scientist, trying to find a cure for all the undead roaming around, while in the graphic novel, he’s just trying his best to survive.

Overall, this is a great book, especially if you’re looking into reading a graphic novel. I recommend this book a lot! However, it does follow the same story plot as the original book does.

[XnatanF12 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Em "Eu sou a lenda" uma misteriosa praga afeta o mundo, transformando a todos em criaturas sombrias, os chamados vampiros. Robert Neville, o protagonista da história, se vê em um mundo pós-apocalíptico, tomado por criaturas sedentas de sangue. Essa é a sinopse do livro e eu diria que ela é boa o bastante para fazer você se interessar a ler o livro, ainda mais, se você gosta de livros pós-apocalípticos. Aparentemente, para quem deseja saber o livro se difere bastante do filme, porém nunca vi o filme, por isso irei me isentar de opiniões e comparações.
Eu já havia lido esse livro a algum tempo, a cerca de 4 anos atrás mais ou menos, e a opinião que eu tenho do livro é a mesma, o livro é incrível.
Primeiramente é importante deixar claro que o livro não é de ação, os momentos de ação do livro são bem pequenos e poucos, então não leia esperando esse tipo de conflito do Humano contra Vampiro, pois, você irá se decepcionar e vai atrapalhar sua "apreciação da leitura". O livro se trata muito mais sobre o personagem do Robert (O protagonista), os diálogos são muito poucos e na maior parte do tempo acompanhamos o que se passa dentro da cabeça do personagem, e na minha humilde opinião o autor consegue isso com maestria, principalmente, por conta que eu consegui de fato sentir a solidão que o Robert passa.
Em segundo lugar, eu achei o desenrolar da história muito bom, e adorei o final, a primeira vez que eu li, eu fiquei durante um tempo bem considerável pensando sobre ele.
Por fim, essas são minhas opiniões, recomendo muito o livro, só aviso que o livro se difere do filme, que aparentemente é de ação, e já nos livros não vão encontrar tantos momentos assim, sendo um livro mais reflexivo. A quem for ler desejo uma ótima leitura e espero que gostem do livro.

[Lynda · Rating 2 out of 5]

The idea of a graphic novel version of one of my favorite horror classics was so exciting to me, when my own (large) county library systems didn't have a copy, I used the inter-library-loan system to find a copy elsewhere. After all that, this book was a letdown.

I'm not sure what the difference is, but this was less a graphic novel than an abridged, illustrated copy of the book. Other than the illustrations, I didn't get a real feeling for the artist and what he meant to convey by making this book. Also, it's very WORDY for a graphic novel, great big blocks of words instead of art to convey it.

I'm just disappointed by this book and to me it feels like it took something away from the original instead of adding to it, and now I want to go back and read the original.

[Sooraya Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t see the point of this being made into comic form at all. As far as graphic novels are concerned, this is by far the wordiest I’ve ever come across. The action sequences (not many) could have been drawn instead of narrated. What we get as a result are panels after panels of Neville basically just sitting around. Top it all off with lousy artwork, the overall journey was just painful. Despite all that, I did like the story. Especially when the dog entered the picture. It was enjoyable enough to prevent me from chucking the book aside. The movie version is WAY different. But I personally like the story here better.

[Francesca Giardiello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Non è male perché "Io sono leggenda" è un libro stupendo, ma questa trasposizione a fumetti è esattamente come leggere lo stesso libro illustrato senza alcuna aggiunta o personalità da parte dell'autore.
I disegni sono bellissimi e coinvolgenti quando il tratto si perde nell'emozione e l'anatomia passa in secondo piano per lasciar prevalere linee, curve e punti, però quando il tratto è focalizzato su momenti meno carichi di emozioni e rimangono solo i personaggi (o il personaggio) a interagire, allora tende quasi al grottesco; un grottesco meno curato, che trasmette meno emozioni in cui le proporzioni non sempre sono ben studiate.

[Ricardo Nuno Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic.
Reading this graphic novel for the first time (many years after seeing Will Smith in the cinematic version) was really surprising.
The original plot is so much more interesting than the blockbuster movie in a social/psychological way, and you'll surprised a few time along the way, up until the end.
The art by Elman Brown is perfectly suited for the narrative, and tops many of the best vampire stories out there.

All in all, don't get discouraged by the high volume of text in this graphic novel, and keep reading it.
You'll enjoy this classic of human survival in a society on the brink of extinction.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great adaptation of the book. Niles mainly just cuts Matheson's prose into panels and lets Brown do the work telling the story visually. This is very text heavy as book adaptations tend to be. In fact each page typically has one or two panels that are completely text.

The story is great. It's about the last human on Earth. Vampires have taken over the world and for some reason, Robert Neville is the only one left unaffected. I like how reading this you feel just as isolated and alone as Neville. And I love how even though the book was originally written in 1954 and this adaptation is from 1991, it still holds up.

[Bok McDonagh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been adapted 3 times, and was the inspiration for Night of the Living Dead, essentially being responsible for the modern day zombie genre of movies. Combining science fiction and horror, Matheson creates a world where you could actually believe that vampires exist, giving potential scientific explanations for the vampire disease as we follow the last man on Earth's quest to eliminate the vampires that killed everyone he knew. It builds up to an ending that will blow you away and make you realise why people are so eager to adapt this novel.

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A re-reading of sorts as I have read the original novel and this is a graphic novel format. I found this very well done and faithful to the original with the art bringing the story to life better than the awful Will Smith movie. I still have a soft sport for the Charton Heston "Omega Man" and the Vincent Price "The Last Man On Earth" was the most faithful, but a bit dated now. A great read and highly recommended.