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Raise the Dead #1
Raise The Dead
Featuring an introduction from Zombie expert Max (World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide) Brooks! Dynamite enters the land of the dead with an all-new Zombie tale set in the middle of a full scale zombie infestation! This time though, there's a twist as Dynamite puts the living; into the living dead! Writers Leah Moore and John Reppion are joined by the newest Dynamite artistic sensation, Hugo Petrus, for this special Zombie event! From its shocking opening to its ever-evolving cast of doomed humans facing an overwhelming number of the undead, Raise the Dead sets a new standard in horror storytelling - and all the gory details will be presented in full color! This Over-Sized Hardcover reprints the entire 4-issue mini-series as well as a complete cover gallery featuring Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam (of Marvel Zombies fame)!
128 pages, ebook
First published February 4, 2008
About the author
Leah Moore
241 books91 followersLEAH MOORE is an author born in Northampton, England in 1978.
Leah's comic writing career began in 2002 with stories for America's Best Comics. Most recently her solo comics scripting has appeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's Gail Simone masterminded crossover series Swords of Sorrow (2015, with Francesco Manna).
In 2006 Leah wrote the story and copy to accompany The Royal Mail's 40th anniversary Christmas Stamps. She has written columns and articles for The Big Issue, Lifetime TV online, and Comic Heroes Magazine.
In 2013 Leah was the Project Manager of digital comics reading platform Electricomics. She was also the contributing editor of Electricomics flagship release, co-writing the sci-fi story Sway, with art by Nicola Scott.
Leah and her husband, John Reppion, have been scripting comics together since 2003, writing for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4 Education, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Electricomics, IDW, and Self Made Hero.
They have written established characters such as Doctor Who (The Whispering Gallery, 2008 with Ben Templesmith) and Sherlock Holmes (The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, 2009 with Aaron Campbell, and The Liverpool Demon, 2012 with Matt Triano), as well as creating their own including Brit-Cit Psi Division, Judge Lillian Storm (Storm Warning, 2015 with Tom Foster).
Together they have faithfully adapted notable works by Lewis Carroll (The Complete Alice, 2010), H. P. Lovecraft (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 2012), Bram Stoker (The Complete Dracula, 2009), and M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1, and 2) into comics and graphic novels.
Most recently she wrote an adaptation of The Doors Morrison Hotel album , and Motley Crue, The Dirt Declassified, for Z2 comics, as well as stories for their Joan Jett Anthology and the Tori Amos Little Earthquakes Anthology. She is currently working on The Tarot Circle for Liminal 11, as well as several other books yet to be announced.
Leah's comic writing career began in 2002 with stories for America's Best Comics. Most recently her solo comics scripting has appeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's Gail Simone masterminded crossover series Swords of Sorrow (2015, with Francesco Manna).
In 2006 Leah wrote the story and copy to accompany The Royal Mail's 40th anniversary Christmas Stamps. She has written columns and articles for The Big Issue, Lifetime TV online, and Comic Heroes Magazine.
In 2013 Leah was the Project Manager of digital comics reading platform Electricomics. She was also the contributing editor of Electricomics flagship release, co-writing the sci-fi story Sway, with art by Nicola Scott.
Leah and her husband, John Reppion, have been scripting comics together since 2003, writing for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4 Education, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Electricomics, IDW, and Self Made Hero.
They have written established characters such as Doctor Who (The Whispering Gallery, 2008 with Ben Templesmith) and Sherlock Holmes (The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, 2009 with Aaron Campbell, and The Liverpool Demon, 2012 with Matt Triano), as well as creating their own including Brit-Cit Psi Division, Judge Lillian Storm (Storm Warning, 2015 with Tom Foster).
Together they have faithfully adapted notable works by Lewis Carroll (The Complete Alice, 2010), H. P. Lovecraft (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 2012), Bram Stoker (The Complete Dracula, 2009), and M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1, and 2) into comics and graphic novels.
Most recently she wrote an adaptation of The Doors Morrison Hotel album , and Motley Crue, The Dirt Declassified, for Z2 comics, as well as stories for their Joan Jett Anthology and the Tori Amos Little Earthquakes Anthology. She is currently working on The Tarot Circle for Liminal 11, as well as several other books yet to be announced.
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April 25, 2025
It's a zombie story—not particularly good, but then again, most of them aren't.
June 23, 2017
Whoa, what a fast ride! You can almost smell the character's adrenaline as it's one encounter after the next. It's mediocre in terms of story, but fairly enjoyable given the somewhat exagerrated artwork and the character interactions.
The story follows a group of people running around, struggling to survive a city infested with boring, run-of-the-mill zombies. The truely fun part comes from the infected which spring up everywhere, keeping the group on edge constantly. As expected, the survivors don't stay in one place, there are constant, heated arguments between them regarding what to do and plenty of blood gets spilled as, one by one, they get killed. By the end very few of them are still alive.
The story follows a group of people running around, struggling to survive a city infested with boring, run-of-the-mill zombies. The truely fun part comes from the infected which spring up everywhere, keeping the group on edge constantly. As expected, the survivors don't stay in one place, there are constant, heated arguments between them regarding what to do and plenty of blood gets spilled as, one by one, they get killed. By the end very few of them are still alive.
December 6, 2020
Ehhh....one thing I liked about his story is that it is told via flashbacks. Other than that, nothing special.
November 2, 2025
Not really sure there's much that makes this stand apart from other zombie stories.
January 16, 2022
This book advertises itself as a zombie story focused on the living. That means they have short 2-page interstitials about the initial characters (usually shortly before killing them off). Aside from one other moderately novel concept, this is a very pedestrian zombie story that has nothing to really differentiate it. It's like the bus driver from Mars Attacks got transplanted into a Zombie movie; the rest of the characters are all cliches, and the inclusion of kids, which seemed to at least hint at something new, ends up handling them just like every other story would. Maybe it's that I read this 7 years after publication, and the zombie craze has passed it by, or maybe it really just doesn't have anything notable to say. Either way, unless you're utterly devoted to all zombie stories, there's nothing special that would lead me to recommend going out of your way to read this.
October 7, 2015
Ah.. just wanted to read a zombie story. I guess it's back to waiting for the new issue of Walking Dead to get my fix.
The artwork was nice. The characters were annoyingly stupid and one-dimensional to say the least. A bunch of cliche-made characters, that felt like they were picked up out of a 5-year-old card game. Nothing. As I said the artwork was nice. That's all there is to it.
If you wanna read a zombie-story, don't read this one.
The artwork was nice. The characters were annoyingly stupid and one-dimensional to say the least. A bunch of cliche-made characters, that felt like they were picked up out of a 5-year-old card game. Nothing. As I said the artwork was nice. That's all there is to it.
If you wanna read a zombie-story, don't read this one.
October 31, 2015
Any zombie tale that gets a nod from Max Brooks deserves a read, and this one certainly delivers. Strong art paired with deft characterization and the kind of bloody gore all good zombie fans dream of make for a wonderful ride - until it pulls up oddly short, leaving us feel a little abandoned by the writers. Still, the thing with the lab rats is more than enough to sell me.
March 4, 2010
A good start to a zombie apocalypse. I'm anxious to read the second book.
April 10, 2016
Lots of action, and fast paced which was really good to see. But I have no idea who any of the characters are other than the two children since no one seemed to last more than two panels.
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