More hilarious and gory adventures of the government-funded zombie super-agent.
Life is not so good for our cadaverous champion. Although the Epsilon-6 space station has been destroyed, the zombified head of Hank Epsilon has escaped with Mr Snyde and Zombo is back in the service of The Government his dreams of a musical career in tatters.
To make matters worse Mr President intends on replacing Zombo with a stronger, faster, more homicidal creation; Obmoz; the reverse Zombo!
Will Zombo prevail? What's the big deal with his bum? Can Mr President go a whole minute without sacking somebody? Is it possible for music to save the world? I don't know; but you can by purchasing this delectable document of wow today!
I really like Al Ewing’s work on Mighty Avengers, so I really wanted to like Zombo. And I did like Donald Trump as president in the first story and the Fantastic Four spoof in the second story. But, overall, this just didn’t work for me. Maybe it’s because I read this without reading the first volume; maybe it’s because this volume was very light on Zombo and heavy on the supporting cast.
Read in the same HC of the 2000AD Ultimate Collection. I liked this second half more than the first, specially the Beatles satire called Sc4rabs. Brilliant stuff. Didn’t like Donald Trump’s character in the story, just because I despise the person in real life. Apart from it Zombo is great fun, really out of the box, with tons of genuinely funny jokes and characters.
If the first volume was crazy funny, the second volume is just insane. Very few times in my adult life have I read something and have to pause because I couldn't believe how funny the dialog was. The crazy is cranked to 11 on this one and I loved every minute of it.
Henry Flint is a genius so nearly a 4. Feel sad saying the story is inaccessible to unfamiliar readers, dialogue is often flat with occasional moments of cheeky brilliance. Theres a great imagination in setting up stuff for Flint to draw, which he does with perfect use of space and form, working in a variety of mediums, and working the pages to full awesome. I'm very keen to see more of Flint's stuff.
Still as smart and crazy and ever, but it's incredible what (SPOILER) the loss of the series' protagonist for most of the book does to it! The heart amidst the mania did it a lot of good!