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Zombieworld: Champion Of The Worms

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Mignola's storytelling here is clearly him subconciously fleshing out his ideas that would eventually lead to the BPRD.

A mystic with a ghost form? CHECK
A big strong brute? CHECK
An aging team leader? CHECK

It was all starting to come together. Now the only art of Mignola's is the cover, but the work of artist Pat McEown's is somehow even creepier than Mignola's due to it being so unassuming and generally real world and care free. The closest book art wise might be the Tin Tin detective books.

Overall the concept is well played out: A paranormal investigative group must stop an ancient priest from resummoning the old gods and the conqueror worms (sound familiar?).

The true craft of Mignola in this piece is that he is able to convince the reader immediately that he or she is not starting at square one, but rather that the characters on the page have deep histories and that we are only reading one in a continuing series of adventures. Most writers just start with an origin story instead of taking the time to introduce complex characters from the get go.

For zombie fans, Mignola fans, Hellboy fans, horror fans, or occult fans this is a must read.

If I have not missed my guess, this is the introduction to the Zombieworld franchise, the rest of which is contained in 'Winter's Dregs and other stories'. We get Mike Mignola and Pat McEown's take on the start of the dead's takeover of the world, caused in this world by an ancient necromancer released from his sarcophagus prison after forty-two thousand years, in modern day America.

We are introduced to a team of supernatural investigators who are seeking out this Necromancer and want to destroy him, but must fight their way through a few mummies, a giant plant monster type thing, and an army of the dead.

Overall, this was an entertaining read with enjoyable artwork. I have bought Winter's Dregs as well and look forward to the ongoing saga of Zombieworld.

Accordng to Mike Mignola's very own ending note to this book, it was a throwaway idea that his editor Scott Allie and brilliant artist Pat McEown simply wouldn't let go.
And a fine idea it was!
In 3 short issue, McEown and Mignola pen a tale of the end of the world brought about by a revived ancient necromancer, Azzul Gotha, who unleashes a plague of zombies all over the world, to please his blasphemous outer dimensional crazy gods (HPL, anyone... ? ;-)!
You can see Mignola's quick wit in the dialoges and plot, but you'll have to credit McEown for everything else: The characterisation, the design of the fictional world (past, present and... otherworldly!) the beautiful ligne claire art, and evn the entertaining bonus section. Thanks to the flawless artwork and design, the art doesn't suffer a bit from being reduced in size from its original publicaion, quite the contrary!
This spawned a bevvy of very nice Zombiworld tales by different artists/writers, als collected in an euqally re-sized volume. If you're a horror fan and you can get your hands on both books, you surely won't regret it!

Only Mike Mignola could fit so many awesome things into a single, 72-page graphic novel. Lost civilizations, necromancy, magic, mummies, paranormal investigators, monsters, and giant worm-like death gods. Wow. It reads like a combination of the Cthulhu mythos, Conan the Barbarian, and a George Romero movie. Certainly a must-read for Mignola/Hellboy fans. The only flaw is the somewhat comical depiction of the villain near the end. It would have been a better reading experience if he was more badass like he's described. But anyhow, this is one of my fave's in my graphic novel collection. It would also make a great horror/fantasy/action movie!

I will have to say to start that I am not the biggist Mignola fan and though I have no hesitants to read one shot books I much perfer story archs over time... The art in this book is well done the story however is basically a set up for a later series. Am I interested in the later stories? Yes. But come to find out the later iterations of ZombieWorld are not written by Mignola, so no.

I recently purchased this after eyeballing it for sometime. I love Mignola's Hellboy and BPRD stuff and have been a fan of McKeown's art since he worked on Grendel:Warchild in the early 90s. That being said, I just really wasn't blown away like I wanted to be. The writing felt rushed and the characters shallow compared to what I am used to on the previously mentioned titles. I suppose if you are a diehard Mignola fan, get it, if not, you will be ok without it.

This excellent masterpiece mixed with beautiful artwork, marvelous pictures of blood, and full of creativity amd imagination is a true treat for teenagers-adults. I would defenitely reccomend it to readers who like horror, suspense, and great surprises. Each episode has at least 20 pages and every page is filled with gore. My balls turned purple from reading this series!

This wonderful example of horror comics and artwork. The plot, while not being too hard and complex, is very catchy and fun. The comic itself is very colorful about Hyperborea and the undead. I recommend this classic comic to all people who like a mystery, laugh, and, (of course!) GORE!=-)