ZombieWorld: Winter's Dregs and Other Stories

by Pat Mills, Kelley Jones

The end of the world is near. The dead walk the earth and feed on the flesh of the living. The remnants of humanity struggle for survival in a sickening nightmare that has become reality. The birth of a terrifying new world is at hand. Zombie World, the comic-book series that set the standard for comics of the undead is back in a massive trade paperback. Bob Fingerman and Tommy Lee Edwards take us into the darkened subway tunnels of New York, where the rats aren't the only things that bite, in the critically-acclaimed "Winter's Dregs." Kelley Jones spins his own twisted tale of love and the undead in "Eat Your Heart Out." A family's Christmas gathering has a few unexpected arrivals in Gordon Rennie and Gary Erskine's "Home For The Holidays." And the apocalypse proves to be more horrifying than anyone ever imagined in Pat Mills and J. Deadstock's "Tree of Death."

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2005

About the author

Pat Mills, born in 1949 and nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.

His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.

Reviews

[Mark Desrosiers · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title story is an urban corpse-fueled horrorshow played as a Robert-Altman-style ensemble piece -- a teensy bit boring and not very frightening.

"Home for the Holidays" tweaks the New England aristocracy for graveyard laughs, though I wish the class warfare could have been more prominent.

"Tree of Death" is droll Cthulu slapstick: not very coherent, but very beautiful in its zombie-corpse-demon-goth kinda way.

Best of all is "Eat Your Heart Out", a disconcertingly sick (even for me) zombie love story with a hilarious punch line.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good end to the Zombie World storyline in this TPB. THE heroes confront the ancient necromancer Azzul Gotha in final battle with the help of Killcrop, the resurrected foe of the evil lord. Good art and plot. Recommended

[Steven Ackerley · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not a patch on 'Zombieworld: Champion Of The Worms'. Pretty bloody disappointing

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only bought this for the Fingerman story and that was ok, but the rest was not worth reading, and the final story was incredibly bad. Horrible really.

[Frank Taranto · Rating 2 out of 5]

So so art and stories.