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The Savage Brothers
Is your mom a zombie? Sis? Dad?! Who you gonna call? Savage Brothers!
Have an undead loved one that needs retrieving?Call Dale and Otis Savage--they'll hop in their Ford F-150, bring'em back, or put 'em down. But when they get hired to retrieve a zombie scientist who holds the key to the supernatural apocalypse--are they selling out the human race? And when did the Savage Brothers start making bid decisions like this? And who is the mysterious guy with no body they call...The Head!?!? Anybody got some more barbecue.
FEAR THE DEAD - Michael Alan Nelson's complete guidebook to the wondrous world of the undead, as seen through the eyes of one survivor of the Zombie Apocalypse! Featuring art from tons of today's terror titans!
Have an undead loved one that needs retrieving?Call Dale and Otis Savage--they'll hop in their Ford F-150, bring'em back, or put 'em down. But when they get hired to retrieve a zombie scientist who holds the key to the supernatural apocalypse--are they selling out the human race? And when did the Savage Brothers start making bid decisions like this? And who is the mysterious guy with no body they call...The Head!?!? Anybody got some more barbecue.
FEAR THE DEAD - Michael Alan Nelson's complete guidebook to the wondrous world of the undead, as seen through the eyes of one survivor of the Zombie Apocalypse! Featuring art from tons of today's terror titans!
128 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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February 13, 2024
The Savage Brothers
Boom Studios
Meet Otis and Dale, The Savage Brothers, owners of The Savage Brothers Salvage Co. They find your Loved Ones, now turned zombies, kill them again, and make sure they stay dead. For a fee, of course.
The brothers meet up with the Widow Mitchum, assure her that her husband Cletus is stone-cold dead and the couple will be reunited in the Hereafter. They receive their payment - the Widow’s life savings and a case of Schlitz.
Afterwards, the brothers wonder if they pegged the right zombie. Who knows? They are offered a new gig by some suit-and-tie guy – the target is Dr. Diller. It’s an offer they can’t pass up.
They head to Atlanta (Hey, I’m a local), apprehend the zombie Doctor, and meet Candy, a 22-year-old stripper from rural Georgia, handy with firearms, and about to be sacrificed by the Head (a head in a jar) and his zombie horde.
On the run, they encounter a Cannibal Biker Gang. What are the chances?
Enter King Food, the person behind the bounty on Dr. Diller and also responsible for the current Apocalypse… and also how do undo it, courtesy of a USB drive stored in Diller’s abdomen.
Dale with Dr. Diller in tow arrives at King Food’s office building.
King Food wants the USB drive. Dale says, “Deal was for the Zombie.”
King Food is not happy with Dale’s response. He’s also not pleased that the Head and his Horde have arrived on the premises.
Things go Kaboom!
Includes two bonus tales not related to The Savage Brothers.
Nice art and poses the question “Do Zombies poop?”
Boom Studios
Meet Otis and Dale, The Savage Brothers, owners of The Savage Brothers Salvage Co. They find your Loved Ones, now turned zombies, kill them again, and make sure they stay dead. For a fee, of course.
The brothers meet up with the Widow Mitchum, assure her that her husband Cletus is stone-cold dead and the couple will be reunited in the Hereafter. They receive their payment - the Widow’s life savings and a case of Schlitz.
Afterwards, the brothers wonder if they pegged the right zombie. Who knows? They are offered a new gig by some suit-and-tie guy – the target is Dr. Diller. It’s an offer they can’t pass up.
They head to Atlanta (Hey, I’m a local), apprehend the zombie Doctor, and meet Candy, a 22-year-old stripper from rural Georgia, handy with firearms, and about to be sacrificed by the Head (a head in a jar) and his zombie horde.
On the run, they encounter a Cannibal Biker Gang. What are the chances?
Enter King Food, the person behind the bounty on Dr. Diller and also responsible for the current Apocalypse… and also how do undo it, courtesy of a USB drive stored in Diller’s abdomen.
Dale with Dr. Diller in tow arrives at King Food’s office building.
King Food wants the USB drive. Dale says, “Deal was for the Zombie.”
King Food is not happy with Dale’s response. He’s also not pleased that the Head and his Horde have arrived on the premises.
Things go Kaboom!
Includes two bonus tales not related to The Savage Brothers.
Nice art and poses the question “Do Zombies poop?”
June 26, 2014
An ornery pair ’a rednecks 4-wheelin’ through the apocalypse with a shotgun in one hand and a Schlitz pounder in the other. Pretty much sums up Savage Brothers Deluxe Edition. Dale and Otis are hillbilly brothers just trying to get their hands on some beer money by taking any shit job that comes their way. It’s an amusing tale that’s part Zombie land, part Larry the Cable Guy, and part Resident Evil. Amusing, not hysterical. Kind of feel like it fell short of what I hoped it would be, but it was a fun, mindless read. Not much to the story, so I won’t spoil it. It has the basics. Zombies, check. Shot-guns, check. Monsters, check. Pick-up trucks, check. Explosions, check. Cannibals, check. Strippers, check. Strippers with guns shooting zombies, check. You get the idea. Definitely not a philosophical, thought provoking dystopian epic.
Best part of this has got to be Rafael Albuquerque. His art is the main reason I picked this up and he certainly doesn’t disappoint. Loved his stuff in American Vampire and it’s pretty much the same here. The story….not so great. This is my first time reading anything by Andrew Crosby or Johanna Stokes so I really don’t have anything to compare it to. I liked some of their ideas. This story seems like the first chapter of what should have been a longer book. Not as funny as I hoped it would be either. Whatever. The two added short stories by one of the co-authors (Johanna Stokes) at the end also didn’t add much to the package. They felt out of place and had a more serious or thoughtful vibe that didn’t fit with the rest of the book. The art in those stories also wasn’t to my taste. Probably more of a 2.5 stars, but I really like Rafael’s stuff. Get it from the library or on sale if it interests you.
Best part of this has got to be Rafael Albuquerque. His art is the main reason I picked this up and he certainly doesn’t disappoint. Loved his stuff in American Vampire and it’s pretty much the same here. The story….not so great. This is my first time reading anything by Andrew Crosby or Johanna Stokes so I really don’t have anything to compare it to. I liked some of their ideas. This story seems like the first chapter of what should have been a longer book. Not as funny as I hoped it would be either. Whatever. The two added short stories by one of the co-authors (Johanna Stokes) at the end also didn’t add much to the package. They felt out of place and had a more serious or thoughtful vibe that didn’t fit with the rest of the book. The art in those stories also wasn’t to my taste. Probably more of a 2.5 stars, but I really like Rafael’s stuff. Get it from the library or on sale if it interests you.
January 21, 2012
This book was fun. It consists of two zombie stories. The first one told in a traditional comic form, the second told via short email entry messages captioning amazing art from various artists. I very much enjoyed the humor of the first story and the art of both stories. Recommended to graphic novel fans and zombie fans.
May 16, 2010
I loved this quick read. The story was simple, funny and even though I wished it was longer, I still didn't feel disappointed.
December 23, 2017
I’ve mostly avoided the whole zombie thing. It’s not a philosophical aversion, just an aesthetic one. The Walking Dead looks tempting, but it’s so long and, as I understand it, so fraught with death and near-death, that I don’t think I quite have the patience to see how it plays with ideas of human nature and the flimsiness of what we call civilization.
Still, this one was only one dollar – one dollar! – and it has bright, fun illustrations, so how could I pass it up.
The premise here is pretty funny, though I acknowledge my limited experience of the genre may make it more novel to me than to most: Dale and Otis are two low-life entrepreneurs filling a niche in a post-apocalyptic world where the dead walk and frogs fall from the sky. If your loved one has been turned into a zombie, they’ll go put him (or her) down for good. That’ll give you piece of mind, and it’ll keep them stocked with Schlitz beer.
And that is more or less where this peaks.
There’s a story that follows – they draw a case that brings them into conflict with a severed-head-in-a-jar who’s planning some assault on what’s left of humanity – and they run into a too-predictable ally in a one-time pre-med student/stripper who outclasses them as a fighter and a thinker (and yet who, inexplicably, was about to be sacrificed to the head). But I never found myself grabbed by it. I wanted more Schlitz and less apocalypse, but where’s the sustained story in that?
The good news is that the illustrations are as over-the-top as the premise and what there is of this goes down easy. Still, even though there’s a volume two, I’m probably done. As fun as this is in its opening pages, it’s predictable right away. The next volume would have to be as cheap as this one for me to give it a thought.
Still, this one was only one dollar – one dollar! – and it has bright, fun illustrations, so how could I pass it up.
The premise here is pretty funny, though I acknowledge my limited experience of the genre may make it more novel to me than to most: Dale and Otis are two low-life entrepreneurs filling a niche in a post-apocalyptic world where the dead walk and frogs fall from the sky. If your loved one has been turned into a zombie, they’ll go put him (or her) down for good. That’ll give you piece of mind, and it’ll keep them stocked with Schlitz beer.
And that is more or less where this peaks.
There’s a story that follows – they draw a case that brings them into conflict with a severed-head-in-a-jar who’s planning some assault on what’s left of humanity – and they run into a too-predictable ally in a one-time pre-med student/stripper who outclasses them as a fighter and a thinker (and yet who, inexplicably, was about to be sacrificed to the head). But I never found myself grabbed by it. I wanted more Schlitz and less apocalypse, but where’s the sustained story in that?
The good news is that the illustrations are as over-the-top as the premise and what there is of this goes down easy. Still, even though there’s a volume two, I’m probably done. As fun as this is in its opening pages, it’s predictable right away. The next volume would have to be as cheap as this one for me to give it a thought.
November 11, 2018
A fairly interesting little story, but nothing that really makes it stand out.
October 23, 2024
Mostly fun but slight.
October 28, 2017
L'histoire n'est pas très originale, les événements se précipitent et s'enchaînent sans vraiment de continuité. Les illustrations sont très belle dans le style de Sean Gordon Murphy. Elle est tout de même une lecture divertissante qui se parcours très rapidement.
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