Did Frankenstein come up with this title or is there supposed to be a comma there? Either way, this is yet another zombie book. Madman artist Mike Allred is drawing it, so right there it gets a boost. Writer Chris Roberson is mostly a novelist, but he's also doing that Cinderella book that's a spin-off from Fables. The concept behind this book is a good one. Sadly, most comics need a hook for an editor to sign off it. What's more important is the actual execution, and so far this book hasn't yet fleshed itself out enough. The concept is that a girl is a zombie. If she eats a brain once a month she remains normal. The problem? When she eats the brain she gets all of that person's memories. In this issue she has to solve the murder of the guy whose brain she ate. That seems like a good plot, but there's more stuffed into this that just ends up seeming too much. There's a vampire. There's a boy that turns into a dog when there's a full moon. Isn't the zombie crime solver enough? The art is fantastic. It's crisp, old-school, and fits the bizarre, psuedo-comedic world. Hopefully it'll all fit together nicely once it starts chugging along. **
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