Customer Reviews

Land of the Dead

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The dead have risen, and now dominate the earth!

I have been a faithful fan of George Romero for longer than I can remember. The film Land of the Dead is classic Romero, and I am happy to report that this graphic novel captures the events of the film beautifully! Well, what more can I say? This graphic novel ROCKS!

Pretty nifty adaptation of the film into a graphic novel. What more need be said?

I think I'm just biased toward the movie, but I feel the adaption this time around fell short in alot of ways. To start, the art is very much a stylized comic book much like their Dawn of the Dead Adaption which is ok by me. But after viewing the cover gallery it made me wonder why they didn't use the same style like 30 Days of Night, grainy and gritty oil painting and CG enhanced sections with line drawing.

Despite staying true to Romero, the editing is quite choppy in places making a confusing read at first. It feels like they were going to separate the sections using the cover art gallery, which would've make it easier and more suspensful like the Evil Dead adaption, but opted not to. Being a Romero adaption, the gore this time around was on the minimalist side, though you still get that awesome shot of that soldier getting his spine ripped out.

On the upside, the cover art gallery really saves the day and there is incredible oil painting of Dead Reckoning blasting a hole through zombie's brain, which in my opinion would've made a great shot in the story. All in all, it's pretty true to the movie's original screenplay from which its based on, not to be confused with the final movie as I made that mistake. In all, after reading it a second time it kind of grows on you and that's why I think it deserves four stars for the efforts.

The front cover of the book I read is different from Amazon's picture but the ISBN number matches. The ISBN was located on the back/bottom of the soft cover instead of inside of one of the first few pages. ISBN 193323974-3 [...]

Anyway, this book is written in comic book format with the words inside bubbles. There are lots of BLAM! WHUMP! etc. words. I did not expect this type of format but did enjoy the book. Very quick read and lots of gruesome fun.