So...are you sick of vampires yet? What about zombies? Lucky for you, this book doesn't have werewolves...not in this first issue, anyway. It's funny how big monsters have become. Scream in '96 kind of made horror movies popular again and 28 Days Later made zombies popular again (even though the movie was about a rage virus and not the undead). I guess you can blame Twilight for vampires and werewolves. And now that every medium is saturated with these creatures we're now getting the twists on the genre. The New Deadwardians' twist is that there was a zombie apocalypse in the late nineteenth century. The rich dudes in London turned themselves into vampires and walled off the zombies. Hence, there's a class difference; the rich vamps, the zombies, and the poor suckers stuck human fighting for their lives. Add a murder mystery to this world and you get this book. It's a good premise, right? And everyone loves a murder mystery, right? With good, clean art by I.N.J. Culbard and a decent script by Dan Abnett and you have an interesting, fairly exotic new entry into a genre you're probably sick of but still secretly love. ***
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