Deadworld Archives: Book Eight

Deadworld Archives #8

by Gary Reed, Galen Showman (Illustrator), Chris Torres (Illustrator)

Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. First published in the 1986, Deadworld is one of indie comics longest running horror series with over 100 issues and graphic novels in release and over 1,000,000 copies sold. While being considered the 'godfather' of all the zombie apocalyptic comics that followed.

In this continuation of collecting all the original Deadworld stories into a set of 10 Archive volumes, this BOOK EIGHT features Volume Two of the series, specifically issues #5-10. Here, the lepers of Brunston are introduced and Dan is entranced by the Voodoo Queen who challenges King Zombie for control of the dead. The Dead-Killer shows the townspeople the horror of the zombies first hand so they truly understand what they’re up against.

"This is thinking man's horror done right." – Comic Bastards, Adam Kelly.

"The best, in my humble opinion, of the zombie comics." - Tom Snigoski, writer Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

"I can't rave enough about this series." - Kenneth Gallant, Broken Frontier.

"This is one heck of a disturbing book and I'd definitely recommend it to new and old fans alike." - Paul Milligan, They Live to Serve.

163 pages, Paperback

First published February 27, 2016

About the author

There is more than one author with this name

Gary Reed was a prolific comic book writer and publisher. He was formerly the publisher of Caliber Comics and Vice President of McFarlane Toys.

Also wrote under assumed names (including Brent Truax, Kyle Garrett, Randall Thayer).

Reviews

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story continues on at a steady pace after floundering for a while. We have some new characters introduced in the form of a colony of "lepers" who were actually experimented on by other humans as well as a zombie voodoo queen who will challenge King Zombie for control of the Zombie hordes. There's another series recap which helps since the story has done some meandering. There's also still the matter of the demons trying to come in from the other dimension. The Dead Killer begins to play a bigger role in this volume as well.

There is one thing in this volume that jumped out at me. The Walking Dead scene where Negan counted eenie meenie minee moe was sort of seen here when King Zombie picked a sacrifice to be used to open a demonic portal. The scene was very similar to the scene in the Walking Dead, but this was published in 1993. It's probably just coincidence but still, it was very interesting.

[Chris Greensmith · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Finally. This world will be mine! All mine!"