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Deadworld Archives #1
Deadworld Archives: Book One
Long before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. Here is one of comics’ longest running independents as Deadworld has had over 100 issues and graphic novels published and over one million copies sold over the years. And it all starts here!
A supernatural plague has been unleashed on the world. The dead return to walk the earth...but this is no standard zombie story. The dead are just soldiers for those who have crossed the Gateway. The lead zombies are intelligent, sadistic, and in addition to having a hankering for flesh, enjoy the tortuous ordeals they put the surviving humans through. Now seven wayward teens on a school bus, scramble to escape the zombie apocalypse. Little did they know that there were also intelligent zombies and they had a plan…and they had a leader, King Zombie. Death becomes very real to the teens as they lose some of their members and their hope that an abandoned riverboat will provide sanctuary proves futile.
The Deadworld Archives series collects all of the original Deadworld series published by Arrow and Caliber Comics from the 1980-90s into a series of ten low priced affordable graphic novels. BOOK ONE has the very first four issues of the series.
"...amongst the most essential horror titles of the last twenty years." - Peter Normanton, From the Tomb magazine.
"The best, in my humble opinion, of the zombie comics." - Tom Snigoski, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"This is the original zombie comic and it's easy to see why it's lasted so long." - World's Heavyweight Comics.
"I can't rave enough about this series." - Kenneth Gallant, Broken Frontier.
A supernatural plague has been unleashed on the world. The dead return to walk the earth...but this is no standard zombie story. The dead are just soldiers for those who have crossed the Gateway. The lead zombies are intelligent, sadistic, and in addition to having a hankering for flesh, enjoy the tortuous ordeals they put the surviving humans through. Now seven wayward teens on a school bus, scramble to escape the zombie apocalypse. Little did they know that there were also intelligent zombies and they had a plan…and they had a leader, King Zombie. Death becomes very real to the teens as they lose some of their members and their hope that an abandoned riverboat will provide sanctuary proves futile.
The Deadworld Archives series collects all of the original Deadworld series published by Arrow and Caliber Comics from the 1980-90s into a series of ten low priced affordable graphic novels. BOOK ONE has the very first four issues of the series.
"...amongst the most essential horror titles of the last twenty years." - Peter Normanton, From the Tomb magazine.
"The best, in my humble opinion, of the zombie comics." - Tom Snigoski, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"This is the original zombie comic and it's easy to see why it's lasted so long." - World's Heavyweight Comics.
"I can't rave enough about this series." - Kenneth Gallant, Broken Frontier.
131 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2016
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December 30, 2020
"You can run...and you can hide...but you're still mine...and you're gonna die."
January 15, 2025
Fucking classic immediately! Jumps right in with the action and establishes character dynamics and relationships pretty quickly and pretty well. Definitely dated in some aspects but it's a very old comic that is standing the tests of time and still holds up soooooooo well.
February 17, 2021
If you're looking for some late '80's, Return of the Living Dead style zombie comics, this might be for you. Artwork takes some getting used to, though.
October 11, 2022
The art is gritty and fun but I have no interest in reading book two.
April 11, 2025
It turns out that there just isn't any number of zombies that will make teenage bickering interesting to me.
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