Escape Of The Living Dead: Resurrected [Paperback]

John Russo (Author), Dheeraj Verma (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2004

In 1968, a blood-soaked night of terror began when the dead rose from their graves to devour the living. In the three years since, horrible experiments have taken place deep inside the concrete walls of a secret medical facility. Now, the untimely intervention of unwitting authorities sets free the dea to walk among the living once more. Can anything possibly stop this new, gut-ripping tide of carnage? John Russo, the co-creator of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, brings his new zombie masterpiece to comics, aided by horror comic legend Mike Wolfer.

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About the Author

John Russo is the original co-creator of the 1968 cult classic film, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which he wrote alongside George A. Romero. His writing partner on ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD is Mike Wolfer, whose prolific work in the horror comics field over the past 20 years includes such titles as Godzilla and Friday the 13th, as well as Avatar's LADY DEATH, STREETS OF GLORY, and GRAVEL.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Avatar Press (January 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592910475
• ISBN-13: 978-1592910472
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 6.5 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,055,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so groovy, dude, November 5, 2008

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Patrick S. Dorazio "Author of The Dark Trilogy" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape Of The Living Dead: Resurrected (Paperback)

Escape of the Living Dead-Resurrected was, I presumed, a continuation of the Escape Of The Living Dead Volume 1. Instead, this book includes everything in that original book plus several new chapters. After purchasing the original probably two years ago I was pretty upset when I opened this book up today after receiving it only to discover that half of it was something I already had. Just be forwarned. You have no need to acquire the other trade paperback by Avatar to get what I am guessing is the complete story up to this point.

This story, which is supposed to be an addendum to the original Night of the Living Dead, takes place a few years after the original zombie plague in western Pennsylvania. A hidden research facility has been experimenting with zombies and some have escaped. Essentially we get to see a repeat of what happened with the movie here. The first story, the one also included in the other book, is reasonably solid and entertaining but the additional chapters, which I will describe as the "hippy" version of a zombie invasion introduces us more thoroughly to "Deadhead" the seemingly intelligent biker zombie who leads the other zombies on a quest to destroy and devour as many people as possible. A group of hippy's bus breaks down near a swamp and suddenly free love has become a free lunch for the undead. Add on top of that a flash flood that has wiped out Johnstown, PA and you get plenty of floating zombies swimming up to take down those trying to survive Mother Nature's wrath as well.

The drawings are okay but the story is not really compelling. There is a tremendous amount of gratuitous nudity, which is not necessarily a turn off but as I said, it was gratuitous. I am not sure I was at all interested in what happened to any of the characters. They were all groovy stoners, dude, which is not a big deal, but that is just it: that is all any of them were. They were stereotypes. Well, except for the fact that all the women had bodies that were perfection and the men all had washboard abs. Lets just say the folks who draw these hippies must have assumed they all had hippy dippy gym memberships and modeling contracts. Far out, dude!

Anyway, as a zombie fan who has really enjoyed the varied graphic contributions out there, I felt compelled to acquire this one. Again, the first part is reasonably entertaining and I gave a review of it back when I bought it. The additional chapters were not all that impressive. I am not sure how gung ho I will be to get the next installment when the put it into trade paperback form.

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Graphic Zombie Novel..., December 5, 2009

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V. Vargas "Zorro" (GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape Of The Living Dead: Resurrected (Paperback)

Escape of the Living Dead follows the George Romero(the master)Zombie genre. It starts a few years after the Night of the Living Dead. Obviously for mature readers due to the nudity and gore. Very entertaining with a great plot, full of gore and guts and great drawing art. You will read this book on one sit.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good, February 22, 2008

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Carlos C. Castanos (Muntinlupa, Metro Manila Philippines) - See all my reviews
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Usually like collecting zombie-format graphic novels and comic books (eg Marvel Zombies, Walking Dead, etc). This one though, seemed forced and disjointed. Art was not so good, either. Don't recommend this for the casual reader.