Bogus Dead [Paperback]

Souther Salazar (Author), James Kochalka (Author), Kevin Huizenga (Author), Jim Mahfood (Author), various others (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2002

The Living Dead, (aka "Zombies") have begun to rise from the dead and violently and indiscriminately attack and eat the living. Within weeks, society has collapsed entirely. Small groups of human beings survive: holed-up in schools, hospitals, and shopping malls, desperately fighting to stay alive. Only a few things are known about these "Zombies": - They desperately crave the flesh and brains of the living. - They may only be killed by destroying their brains, via a bullet, incineration, or other extreme trauma. - They possess only a rudimentary intelligence, and seem to operate on instinct and very dim memories of their prior life. - Any person who dies will become a zombie within hours of their death. Those bitten by a zombie will become ill and eventually become zombies as well. 42 cartoonists from around the world have come together in 144 pages of raw, black & white comix, to describe this terrific sequence of events.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jerome Gaynor has been publishing comics out of his home for over 10 years! His anthology "Flying Saucer Attack" was the predeccessor to "Bogus Dead", and was a critical and popular success in underground comics circles. He also published 10 issues of "Funkapotamus", mini-comics dealing with the fun & terror of growing up in the suburbs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Alternative Comics (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891867199
• ISBN-13: 978-1891867194
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,309,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Spotty, but fun., March 16, 2010

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bogus Dead (Paperback)

Jerome Gaynor (ed.), Bogus Dead (Alternative Comics, 2002)

I've been trying to hunt down a copy of Bogus Dead for a few years now, so when I saw one at my local Half Price Books a couple of days ago, I snapped it up. (My library's catalog still swears they have a copy, but no one seems to be able to find it. This is not an uncommon thing with my library.) It's been long enough that I can't remember where I first heard about it, but I loved the idea--a bunch of graphic novelists giving short-short takes on the zombie phenomenon. And in some cases, I love the execution. You have to expect with anthologies that there's going to be some variation in the quality of the submissions, and such is the case here, but the best of them are truly wonderful. You'll never see bad work from Kevin Huizenga, for example, and Ariel Bordeaux turns in a piece that's all kinds of fun. If the entire book had been as good as those, it would have been a shoo-in for my best reads of the year. They're not, of course, but there's nothing here that's out-and-out bad. Zombie otaku will probably nitpick at some of the pieces of canon that get shoved to the side, especially in the opening story, but it's all in good fun. ***

5.0 out of 5 stars gory fun, April 14, 2003

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"lprzok" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bogus Dead (Paperback)

Don't listen to these curmudgeons, these squares, when they knock
this really fun anthology. A cast of mini-comic greats takes on
"zombies" as the theme and have a lot of fun in the process.If you are excpecting "serious" horror go elswhere; the average page-count of each story would not allow even a supercartoonist to
get in depth here.This book may be for fans of indie comics only, however, as these other reviews by people who have no experience with indie comics may attest to.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Very Mixed Bag...., October 4, 2002

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Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bogus Dead (Paperback)

Spinning off of the premise of the horror classic "Night of the Living Dead", Bogus Dead presents a few dozen similarly-themed short stories by some of the brightest lights in Indy Comics. Some of the stories work quite well, most don't work at all. I found the book to be a torturous read, and the handful of truly inspired stories aren't enough to earn a recommendation. Give it a quick skim before buying to see if it's your cup of tea. I was very disappointed.....