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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction #1

Script: Kevin Grevioux
Pencils: Geraldo Borges
Inks: Jimmy Reves, David Rivera, and Tony Kordos
Colors: Andrew Dalhouse
Letters: Troy Peteri
Cover Art: Paul Ballard

Publisher: Red 5 Comics

If you are a zombie fan, and a comic fan, then new zombie titles fill you with a mixture of child-like anticipation and pessimistic impending doom. I mean, after Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead spearheaded a market place influx of zombie titles, it was like Russian roulette with three options: cool, mediocre, or crap. Titles began to blur together and as new titles were released you began to think, "C'mon! They're all the same!"

But Kevin Grevioux's ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, immediately sets itself up as something different. The title alone lets you know this is not your average zombie tale.

Issue #1 starts off with a television news report about rumors of conflict in Iran and whether or not the United States would intervene is the fighting is going on. Meanwhile, we see the fighting is not a rumor, and despite the declaration that "there is not nor will there be any U.S. involvement," we know the truth because we know that F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber anywhere.

But they're not carrying bombs, they're carrying zombies set to be dropped into the middle of the enemy and take them out. Then the carnage. The art beautifully (probably an odd choice of word there) depicts the chaos on the ground. No need for heavy text. No need for dialogue of the victims screams and terror. Just images of terror. I insist, when you pick this up, that you take your time with the panels from when the first zombie is revealed on his splash page until the sun comes up turning all the zombies to dust, all of the zombies...except one.

Grevioux's concept has already been optioned for a movie by Benderspink Productions who produced the movies Final Destination and The Ring. But don't wait for the movie, because you don't want to miss the art.