The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks [Paperback]

Max Brooks (Author), Ibraim Roberson (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 6, 2009

Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’re coming. They’re hungry.

Don’t wait for them to come to you!

This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civilization has faced them. Here are the grisly and heroic stories–complete with eye-popping artwork that pulsates with the hideous faces of the undead.

Organize before they rise!

Scripted by the world’s leading zombie authority, Max Brooks, Recorded Attacks reveals how other eras and cultures have dealt with–and survived–the ancient viral plague. By immersing ourselves in past horror we may yet prevail over the coming outbreak in our time.

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About the Author

The New York Times bestselling author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, MAX BROOKS has been called "the Studs Terkel of zombie journalism."

Artist IBRAIM ROBERSON brings a diversity of graphic influences into the dark vision of this story.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Broadway Books; 1 Reprint edition (October 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 030740577X
• ISBN-13: 978-0307405777
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (129 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Horror

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, Max Brooks has been called "the Studs Terkel of zombie journalism."
He lives in New York City but is ready to move to a more remote and defensible location at a moment's notice.
Max Brooks's The Zombie Survival Guide formed the core of the world's civilian survival manuals during the Zombie War. Mr. Brooks subsequently spent years traveling to every part of the globe in order to conduct the face-to-face interviews that have been incorporated into World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent appetizer for Brooks' other work (or a dessert!) October 13, 2009

By Jesse Feliciani

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Unlike a lot of the negative reviews, I knew what I was getting in the post when I ordered this (so if you can't read a product description, why are you giving a bad review?)...The graphic novel is a really fun read, especially for hardcore zombie fans.
It's exactly what the title states, a collection of short stories of recorded zombie attacks during several different times and places. Most are only about 9 or 10 pages, so you get through the book quite quickly. The art is fantastic, depicting gory details of the different attacks. The dialogue is a bit light however. I just wish that Max Brooks dove a bit deeper into each event, adding a bit more depth to them.
If you're already familiar with Max Brooks' other zombie books, you'll find this a nice accompaniment to the other tales. And if you're not, well this is a nice introduction to the world to zombie attacks! Also, if you like what you've read and what to read something a bit more detailed and character driven, try The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice companion to the other two Brooks books October 21, 2009

By Ray Shilling

Format:Paperback

An illustrated account of zombie attacks throughout the history of mankind, Recorded Attacks shows you in chilling black and white the best chapters of The Zombie Survival Guide. As a fairly serious fan of quality Zombie films and stories (I've been to the Monroeville Mall), I highly recommend this to anyone that is interested in Zombie lore. The only reason I gave it 4 stars out of 5 is because it's fairly light on dialogue, even for a graphic novel, but that is the only (minor) drawback to an otherwise great addition to the zombie mythology.

53 of 69 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Not Worth It December 24, 2009

By Patricia Fox-callan

Format:Paperback

A worthy effort - I can truly see a product like this being fantastic, if the time had been taken to create original, engaging stories rather than merely license old ones. Even just the premise of applying the same methodical, historical/geopolitical thinking Brooks does to "World War Z" to stories of zombie attacks throughout history seems to write itself. Brooks would not even have been needed. An anthology of writers and artists would have been more than fine.

What you have in this product is instead some sparse accounts taken from the back of "World War Z" and illustrated. No dialogue. No flavor. You'll read the whole thing in about fifteen minutes and none will provide you with any real satisfaction. They're really just scenes, not stories in any sense.

Can only really recommend this for the hardest of hardcore Max Brooks fans or zombie fans. Not much in it for anyone else.

But if knowing that this seems like you're sort of thing, please enjoy.

NOTE: I think one of the reasons I was so annoyed by this product is that it's not advertised as what it is. The term "graphic novel" is so insanely misused that I can hardly blame them for it, but this isn't even a narrative at all. I was expecting a collection of short stories and it's not even that.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars cool pictures but thats about it November 1, 2010

By davea

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Let me start off by stating Im a huge Brooks fan. Overall the pictures where cool, but I read the same stories in Zombie Survival Guide. Not sure if it was worth the money, I finished it in about 30 mins and that included looking at the drawings in detail.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Wow, big let down. August 3, 2010

By J. McDonald

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I was very surprised at how unfulfilling this was. I'm a zombie veteran, and a big fan of Max Brooks and I can honestly say that this is worth 2 dollars on a used book stand. No more.

It fails at everything it should have strived for. It's a collection of VERY brief stories of human interactions with zombies throughout time. However, some of these stories get no more than a few pages, so you never connect with a single character in the slightest, it's just a quick face, then gone. If you are not going to have your audience connect to any characters on any level you better deliver on the spectacle level, and give us some really cool zombie action. Which is doesn't do very well.

How cool would it be to see a few pages of some cavemen throwing a few spears at zombies? It's not very cool. There were only 2 or 3 scenarios that depicted some cool scenarios, but hardly enough to warrant the creation of this book. Can't help but think that this is a shallow attempt in to CASH in. It lacks all the charisma of Max's earlier books.

Save your money for the next Walking Dead issue.

You've been warned.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Survival Guide Fans: DO NOT BUY THIS March 29, 2012

By Eli LaCrosse

Format:Paperback

If you've read the "recorded attacks" appendix from the "Zombie Survival Guide", there is no reason for you to buy this book, and several reasons not to.

It contains zero new material, just severely abridged versions of a few of the items in Zombie Survival Guide's last section, accompanied by artwork which is very nicely rendered, but adds nothing to the stories themselves. Some of the best and most interesting recorded attacks from "Survival Guide" are not included at all, and of the ones that are included, much of the most interesting text and scariest passages are completely left out.

I would have loved something that improved or expanded upon the material from "Zombie Survival Guide", but this is more of a Reader's Digest pamphlet version of one part of one book, that you will burn through in 10 or 15 minutes. It adds nothing to the Brooks Zombie series.

I suppose if you have read ZSG, and your brain is simply not capable of producing visual imagery as you read, then you might enjoy this. Ditto if you are just a graphic novel nut who has never read ZSG. But if you're hoping for a continuation or expansion on that great, compelling, original material, you are going to be deathly disappointed.