Yep, another zombie book. This is hard to find, though. A few comic book stores don't order this but I tracked it down. It's co-written by a chick that used to be in the NBC series Heroes. She was the rip-off of The Flash and kind of looked like Veronica Mars. I'm guessing that's how this got published; her being somewhat famous and all. The story takes place in New York City in the 1920's. The main characters are two lesbian lovers, one of them killed her husband in the last issue and the other is a prostitute. They end up shacking up with a zombified fortune teller/mystic type of a lady that's chained to her furnace. After that they flee to Coney Island where zombies are riding The Cyclone. The story isn't anything fresh, but the zany, psychedelic art by Kyle Strahm is awesome, grotesque stuff. It's similar to R. Crumb, with wavy lines and heavy ink. It's so bizarre that the zombie world feels as sick and as filthy as it should. I'm not sure where this is going or if it will get better or worse, but the first two issues are very interesting and a nice addition to the zombie canon. ***
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