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Vampires and Zombies have become well tread ground in modern entertainment, and comics are no different. From "The Walking Dead: Compendium One" to "I, Vampire Vol. 1: Tainted Love (The New 52)", there are plenty of excellent tales of the undead. What separates "The New Deadwardians" from the pack is how startlingly human the tale it tells truly is.
The world of "The New Deadwardians" is set in Post-Victorian England. The dead now walk the earth and consume the living, as they are want to do. To combat the threat of the restless, the zombies, the royal army takes "the cure" which turns them into vampires. Because the young, what the vampires are called because of their eternal life, are dead, the restless, who feed on life, pay them no attention. The story picks up after the war. The affluent of society, mostly consisting of the young, live in Zone A, while all the rest of society is cordoned off in Zone B.
The central character of "The New Deadwardians" is Chief Inspector George Suttle. George is of the Young, and the only remaining member of the Zone A murder squad, because that which does not live cannot be killed; right? It is this question that becomes the central theme for the story. In his hunt for the truth, George not only uncovers a shocking secret about the empire, he also learns more about himself, and his humanity, which he had believed long gone.
The strongest aspect of "The New Deadwardians" is the writing, and how effective a narrator George Suttle turns out to be.Read more ›
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England in the early 20th century is a slightly different place to the Edwardian era we knew – most of the upper classes have taken “the cure” and become vampires while most of the lower classes are zombies, kept out of major cities like London by massive walls. In a world populated with the dead and undying, Chief Inspector George Suttle is faced with the bizarre homicide case of a young aristocrat – but who can kill the “Young”, as the vampires are known, and why?
I’m going to talk about some details that bothered me later in the review so if you don’t want to read spoilers because you’re thinking of reading it and you just want a yay or nay, my takeaway of The New Deadwardians is that it’s not a bad murder mystery which has some excellent art but is a bit overlong and a bit thin, plot-wise. If you enjoy supernatural police procedurals, it’s not bad and the set-up is certainly different, even if the protagonist is more than a bit bland. I didn’t love it but, considering the other titles Vertigo is currently offering, it’s up there as one of the better ones to read.
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The set-up isn’t totally correct; there are vampires and there are zombies but there are also humans. Quite a few, in fact - they’re called the “Bright”. I really like Dan Abnett’s labelling of the different types of people in this world, “the Young”, “the Bright”, “the cure” – they feel like titles that perfectly belong to the post-Victorian era.
But much is made of Suttle being a redundant figure – a homicide detective in a world where homicides are so rare that he’s the last cop in that department. This makes sense if there are just zombies and vampires – but humans also exist. Humans can die.Read more ›
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This is a crime mystery NOT a zombie/vampire comic. I loved the unique take on how the zombies and vampires came to be but don't buy this thinking it's some kind of monster mash up. It's a really good, moderately paced murder mystery with a Downton Abbey feel.
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The New Deadwardians was a true surprise - what looked like a simple horror book reinventing the zombie and vampire lore instead was a fascinating and intelligent treatise on what it means to be alive - all wrapped up in a murder mystery.
In an alternative history Edwardian England, Chief Inspector George Suttle is faced with the mysterious death of a titled lord. What draws Suttle's interest is that the Lord was able to be killed at all - he, like Suttle is a 'young' - given eternal life as a cure against the revenants that plague the world but one that also has a curse of certain vampiric 'tendencies' that make them reviled by the normal humans. What Suttle will find in the course of his investigation is a redemption for his own meaningless eternal life but also a chance to go to the heart of the revenant curse itself.
The story and plot are dense - full of layers and interesting side characters as well as a fascinating history for Suttle himself. This isn't a simple murder mystery with pretty pictures to tie it up neatly. Rather, it is a very engrossing character study and some of the things proferred about the meaning of life (or being a revenant or vampire) were very revealing. Suttle himself has found that eternal life (he took the 'cure' to fight the revenants but others take the cure after being bitten to prevent from becoming one) has taken away all the reasons he wants to live - the cessation of pleasure to be derived from sex, eating, and more. In a very insightful aside, a prostitute casually comments that life has a specific start and end: if you stretch that lifespan by giving someone eternal life, it thins out that life so much that the reasons living is worthwhile become too shallow to be enjoyed.Read more ›
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