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War Of The Undead
From the twisted team of Bryan Johnson and Walter Flanagan—who let Karney loose on an unsuspecting public. In East Germany in 1945, Hitler has committed suicide and the war is over, but a secret cabal of Nazis have an insane plan to resurrect Hitler's soul from Hell and place it in an earthly vessel.
72 pages, Paperback
First published July 25, 2007
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Bryan Johnson
3 books9 followersBryan Lee Johnson is a writer, actor, podcaster, screenwriter and comic book writer associated with Kevin Smith and the View Askewniverse. He is best known by his local fame in New Jersey and appearances in filmmaker Kevin Smith's New Jersey films as comic book fan Steve-Dave Pulasti. He was also the basis for the Clerks character Randal Graves. Through his friendship with Smith, he was often involved in his productions until Smith moved to Los Angeles. He worked briefly at the Los Angeles branch of Smith's comic book store, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. He became co-host of the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! Podcast with friend Walt Flanagan and Brian Quinn. He also stars in the AMC reality series Comic Book Men.
Johnson has collaborated with Flanagan in creating comics adapted from their screenplays, including the 2004 miniseries Karney and the 2007 miniseres War of the Undead.
Johnson has collaborated with Flanagan in creating comics adapted from their screenplays, including the 2004 miniseries Karney and the 2007 miniseres War of the Undead.
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May 7, 2013
It's 1945 and Hitler's dead. The Red Army are swarming into Berlin with the Americans following closely. A Nazi officer gets a cryptic message to call a scientist in a gas mask and tell him to activate the plan. The action takes him to an underground lab where a man they believe to be a werewolf is shackled, Frankenstein's Monster is chained up, and the Prince of Darkness himself, Dracula, lies in his coffin with a stake in his heart. This is all part of a mad scheme where the Nazi scientist believes he can bring Hitler back into a superior immortal form using these three creatures and thus fulfil the prophecy of the Third Reich lasting 1000 years.
Not a bad story eh? Bryan Johnson does a great job of bringing these Nazi whackos to melodramatic life as well as setting up great action scenes between the three Universal monsters along with the Mummy, fighting off hordes of Nazi zombies. Walter Flanagan looks like he's having a great time drawing chained up corpse like figures being tortured, bleeding scars scoring their bodies as bullets, knives, and Nazi shaped ninja stars get hurled at our three unlikely heroes. There are several pages which look like they belong on the cover of a heavy metal album.
It's a very enjoyable, fun comic book that looks like the creators had as much fun making as it is to read. Who are the real monsters in this story, the Wolfman or the Mengele-like sadists? Is the message Johnson and Flanagan are putting out. There's a sneak peak at the sequel which oddly puts the release date as Winter '07 but I can't find any mention of it on Amazon or elsewhere. Shame, I would've liked to have read it. Here's hoping they get this monstrously awesome trio back to fight the aliens in another volume of... WAR OF THE UNDEAD!
Not a bad story eh? Bryan Johnson does a great job of bringing these Nazi whackos to melodramatic life as well as setting up great action scenes between the three Universal monsters along with the Mummy, fighting off hordes of Nazi zombies. Walter Flanagan looks like he's having a great time drawing chained up corpse like figures being tortured, bleeding scars scoring their bodies as bullets, knives, and Nazi shaped ninja stars get hurled at our three unlikely heroes. There are several pages which look like they belong on the cover of a heavy metal album.
It's a very enjoyable, fun comic book that looks like the creators had as much fun making as it is to read. Who are the real monsters in this story, the Wolfman or the Mengele-like sadists? Is the message Johnson and Flanagan are putting out. There's a sneak peak at the sequel which oddly puts the release date as Winter '07 but I can't find any mention of it on Amazon or elsewhere. Shame, I would've liked to have read it. Here's hoping they get this monstrously awesome trio back to fight the aliens in another volume of... WAR OF THE UNDEAD!
February 18, 2014
Insipid and ugly, but the real crime is that its boring. Same old cheap horror cliches, idiotic dialogue, and run-of-the-mill "shocking" violence. How can View Askew guys make werewolves beating up Nazi zombies so tedious? Its not particularly funny, either. I realize that this comic is supposed to be absurd, but I think that people who hang out with Kevin Smith can do better.
Also, why Hitler's balls? Inquiring minds want to know.
Also, why Hitler's balls? Inquiring minds want to know.
November 9, 2023
Teetered on giving this a 3 star. Parts of it are just too simple and too cliche. But.. it’s fun and that’s always the goal. I hated how the Jab character kept going hee-hee. Every time I saw it I cringed. That’s a minor complaint though. Felt like maybe it could have been longer as well. Like at least one more issue.
February 17, 2014
Nazis? Monsters? Zombies? I'm in! I liked the idea but I felt like the story could have had more to it. It seemed to short. Three stars for the concept and story. I give it an extra star because the coloring was great! Good book, all in all.
November 23, 2008
Fabulous B-movie fodder. Totally amusing and ridiculous. One of my "comfort reads" for when I just need to zone for a while.
February 1, 2024
Received the full collection as a Patreon gift for TESD and it looks amazing.
Story and Art have been fully updated, so is going to be better than the early comments (not that I've read that batch)
Walt Flanagan is one amazing artist, it's always top notch.
And it's always amazing to see Walt team up with his best friend Bryan.
Bryan is one awesome comic book writer as well, when the two team up, magic will happen.
TELL 'EM STEVE-DAVE!!
Story and Art have been fully updated, so is going to be better than the early comments (not that I've read that batch)
Walt Flanagan is one amazing artist, it's always top notch.
And it's always amazing to see Walt team up with his best friend Bryan.
Bryan is one awesome comic book writer as well, when the two team up, magic will happen.
TELL 'EM STEVE-DAVE!!
April 17, 2019
Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf-Man versus Nazis and their army of the undead. A crazy idea which somehow works sweetly thanks to a well-written story line and dark, harrowing illustrations. Reminiscent of the 30 days of Night series.
November 17, 2024
Tell 'em, Steve Dave!
March 20, 2012
Normally I don't bother reviewing graphic novels, since most are just so-so, but this one was such utter crap I had to let it out. And first, I didn't understand how this shit has such a high rating here at GoodReads. I really expected to log in and see it with at most a 2.5 - 3 rating. But no. Then I realized that at some point Kevin Smith recommended it and that apparently made the fan boys all ape-shit crazy to snatch it up. Your cults of personality will only take you so far, kiddos.
Anyway, the premise has some promise to it: at the end of WWII mad Nazi scientists have discovered how to reanimate corpses and plan on using the big classic monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the werewolf) to reanimate Hitler and bring about the 1000 year Reich. I admit that I probably would have been interested in finding a copy of this thing had I heard just that, but sadly the would-be B-movie-in-comic-form book falls way flat. Both the writing and artwork are pretty terrible. If the writer hadn't taken himself so seriously and instead been a bit more self-aware in his writing I think it would have been much better. But no, instead we must slog through pages of Mr. Werewolf slinging shit loads of purple prose at us.
Then there's the art. I got the impression that the artist (and I have no idea how many other books he's done) was out on his first big gig, but didn't really bother trying to impress anyone. He just sort of threw some shit down and though, "Eh, that's good enough." No, goddammit!; that is not good enough! The art looks muddied and it was quite difficult to figure out just what the hell was happening a lot of the time. He also used a lot of blood to obscure anatomy...blood from undead corpses. Uh huh. It reminded me of Rob Liefeld and how he constantly used objects or other body parts and characters to keep from having to draw feet.
What really gets me though is that there are more books coming down the road. I guess because it's from an independent publisher stuff like story cohesion can fly right out the damned window.
Anyway, the premise has some promise to it: at the end of WWII mad Nazi scientists have discovered how to reanimate corpses and plan on using the big classic monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the werewolf) to reanimate Hitler and bring about the 1000 year Reich. I admit that I probably would have been interested in finding a copy of this thing had I heard just that, but sadly the would-be B-movie-in-comic-form book falls way flat. Both the writing and artwork are pretty terrible. If the writer hadn't taken himself so seriously and instead been a bit more self-aware in his writing I think it would have been much better. But no, instead we must slog through pages of Mr. Werewolf slinging shit loads of purple prose at us.
Then there's the art. I got the impression that the artist (and I have no idea how many other books he's done) was out on his first big gig, but didn't really bother trying to impress anyone. He just sort of threw some shit down and though, "Eh, that's good enough." No, goddammit!; that is not good enough! The art looks muddied and it was quite difficult to figure out just what the hell was happening a lot of the time. He also used a lot of blood to obscure anatomy...blood from undead corpses. Uh huh. It reminded me of Rob Liefeld and how he constantly used objects or other body parts and characters to keep from having to draw feet.
What really gets me though is that there are more books coming down the road. I guess because it's from an independent publisher stuff like story cohesion can fly right out the damned window.
June 2, 2010
so i found out about this comic through kevin smith's smodcast.....i finally got around to reading it, and it's an ok book, decent premise, but i gotta say that i wasn't overly impressed by walt's art....bummer...
June 4, 2008
Being a huge fan of Kevin Smith I always love hearing from Walt and Bryan. This graphic novel is so unique- Monsters .vs. Nazis?? Amazing!
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December 18, 2014This was fun and gory! The monsters were the heroes of the story. A welcome change! I just wished Dracula had a bigger role.
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