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EVERYTHING DEAD & DYING #3
Death has come to the town of Caverton, and Jack is left to pick up the pieces. But in saving the family he has left, will he condemn the rest of his neighbors and friends to an even worse fate? And as the human survivors get split up, the dead only grow hungrier...
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Published November 19, 2025
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March 1, 2026
damn. my heart!!!
January 24, 2026
One of the more heart-breaking and tear-jerkiest zombie apocalypse stories I have ever read, Tate Brombal's "Everything Dead & Dying" tells the sad story of Jack, whose family and small farm town has been infected, and he has been feeding them meat on a daily basis to keep them docile. When a small group of human survivors stumble into town, Jack is forced to confront reality. But he isn't doing it willingly...
Issue #3 culminates in a bloody shootout on a bridge in a thunderstorm, with human and zombie casualties. Brombal's wonderful writing manages to humanize and sympathize with both sides of the conflict. Something tells me, though, that in the next issue, readers may be forced to pick a side.
Issue #3 culminates in a bloody shootout on a bridge in a thunderstorm, with human and zombie casualties. Brombal's wonderful writing manages to humanize and sympathize with both sides of the conflict. Something tells me, though, that in the next issue, readers may be forced to pick a side.
January 15, 2026
what better way to explore life than through the perspective of someone amongst the dead?
some of the art and sequencing was a little difficult to discern but still really solid storytelling and i can’t wait to read more 🙏
some of the art and sequencing was a little difficult to discern but still really solid storytelling and i can’t wait to read more 🙏
December 3, 2025
As a father this story is really hitting me hard. Very bleak, very fucked up, yet I can't stop reading.
December 2, 2025
Canerton Farm……
February 8, 2026
Wow I really felt the emotional weight of this genius issue. Last issue was a focus around Luke and what it meant to live, this issue is a focus around Daisy and being everything to Jack. Throughout this story as we follow Jack on the modern day we get flashes of Daisy through her life. From her birth to now she was Jack’s reason for being alive, he can’t see a world where he is alive without her. We see glimpses into their lives, the first time Jack has to explain the concept of death to Daisy and struggles to do so, a low point when a homophobic man tried calling Jack and his husband freaks when they picked Daisy up from school…only for another man in the community to step in and punch the asshole in the face when Jack, even when Luke was begging, was too scared to step in and cause trouble. Last issue felt like the steps into the past were meant to give us a larger meaning about what it means to live and how Jack still needs to find his way there, but these glimpses make me feel like we are learning more about Jack to explain the actions and inaction he takes this issue.
As we jump into the present day of this issue, Luke has been gunned down and now Jack holds a gun to the kid who shot him while holding Daisy behind his back. The kid is confused as he never wanes to shoot living people and Jack is insistent that Luke was alive. But the conversation is interrupted as the others come around the corner and take a shot at Jack, causing him to take the kid hostage all while he begs for Daisy to be kept away from him. Jack orders them all to drop their guns and to do exactly as he says as even thought Daisy has been fed she is out of it on account of her father being murdered. Sam comes around the corner and forces everyone to follow Jack’s demands, I really like the way Sam goes about things. They are visitors and desperate themselves and he keeps it respectful…but the others in his group don’t agree. Sam was talking Jack down into handing their boy over so they can leave, only for the others to start taking shots, sending Jack behind his tractor and knocking the kid, Zeke, out in the process to take as his hostage. When the shooting paused he jumped up and fired back, burnt a woman named Georgia in the shoulder, and then taking off in his tractor. Sam has a moment where he could have shot Jack, but hesitated and the shots from Sam caused their one horse to run off anyway.
Jack took Zeke into row then woke him up after he tied him to a chair in a meat locker. Zeke is understandably upset and that is causing Daisy to get agitated. Using the situation in his favor, Jack gets Zeke to spill the beans on what they are really doing here all while the rest of Zeke’s party make their way into town. They finally start to get the bigger picture as they realize none of the zombies are attacking them. One member of their group which abstained from the gunfire was a researcher, who figures that they have bee so well fed that their brains are operating on the most common neurological pathways…in a way, they are acting in muscle memory. Zeke doesn’t really care about dying, he is 16 years old and was born into a world with no future and the larger group he is apart of continue to bring more kids into a world without pasts to keep them warm at night and futures that are already dead. They are running out of space and food and everything else they need to keep living, so they send out parties like this because they are desperate. With the rest of the group there is some pain points as Sam continues to butt heads with a woman named Colette. She is the ultra religious of the group who sees all of this as ungodly and Sam’s inaction in shooting Jack, when he had the chance, as weak. But he is still in charge and they don’t kill the living, even if it goes against her perspective of what god’s image is. They were able to find Jack’s tractor parked outside the meat locker and were able to talk to him while he was inside. The two groups make a deal, Jack turns over Zeke and they leave and everything goes back to normal. Jack has them meet out on the bridge at the edge of town, but that point the rain has swept in making it and cloudy. The hand-off should have been simple, but then Zeke noticed his horse by the side of the river and he got a little too comfortable around Daisy…inadvertently running right next to her, in reach for her to grab his arm and bite it before Jack could pull her away. Colette had enough of this situation and immediately shot at Daisy, blowing her arm off. As the horse ran off from the gunshots, Zeke refused to exist in this world as one of them. He wrested the gun out of Jack’s hands then immediately turned it on himself and blew his own brains out. Daisy immediately lunged for Zeke’s body, inadvertently slipping off the side of the bridge and falling into the rampaging water below. Sam ran up and grabbed Jack, pulling him away from falling off and knocking him out in the process. Honestly probably the best move, he for sure would have jumped after her as he will have to find out who he is without his family. Something he should have started a long time ago. The issue ends with quick check ins on the rest of the group. The researcher found herself in the mill, where we found out in the first issue a researcher exploring alternative power setup shop and had a good system starting up with flowing water. The researcher is fascinated by it, unfortunately missing the zombie researcher standing behind her. Here’s hoping she isn’t hungry. Alternatively two of the other trigger happy members who were both injured earlier (one cut on glass and one Jack shot) found their way to the walled off farm Jack runs. Isn’t that fun.
As we jump into the present day of this issue, Luke has been gunned down and now Jack holds a gun to the kid who shot him while holding Daisy behind his back. The kid is confused as he never wanes to shoot living people and Jack is insistent that Luke was alive. But the conversation is interrupted as the others come around the corner and take a shot at Jack, causing him to take the kid hostage all while he begs for Daisy to be kept away from him. Jack orders them all to drop their guns and to do exactly as he says as even thought Daisy has been fed she is out of it on account of her father being murdered. Sam comes around the corner and forces everyone to follow Jack’s demands, I really like the way Sam goes about things. They are visitors and desperate themselves and he keeps it respectful…but the others in his group don’t agree. Sam was talking Jack down into handing their boy over so they can leave, only for the others to start taking shots, sending Jack behind his tractor and knocking the kid, Zeke, out in the process to take as his hostage. When the shooting paused he jumped up and fired back, burnt a woman named Georgia in the shoulder, and then taking off in his tractor. Sam has a moment where he could have shot Jack, but hesitated and the shots from Sam caused their one horse to run off anyway.
Jack took Zeke into row then woke him up after he tied him to a chair in a meat locker. Zeke is understandably upset and that is causing Daisy to get agitated. Using the situation in his favor, Jack gets Zeke to spill the beans on what they are really doing here all while the rest of Zeke’s party make their way into town. They finally start to get the bigger picture as they realize none of the zombies are attacking them. One member of their group which abstained from the gunfire was a researcher, who figures that they have bee so well fed that their brains are operating on the most common neurological pathways…in a way, they are acting in muscle memory. Zeke doesn’t really care about dying, he is 16 years old and was born into a world with no future and the larger group he is apart of continue to bring more kids into a world without pasts to keep them warm at night and futures that are already dead. They are running out of space and food and everything else they need to keep living, so they send out parties like this because they are desperate. With the rest of the group there is some pain points as Sam continues to butt heads with a woman named Colette. She is the ultra religious of the group who sees all of this as ungodly and Sam’s inaction in shooting Jack, when he had the chance, as weak. But he is still in charge and they don’t kill the living, even if it goes against her perspective of what god’s image is. They were able to find Jack’s tractor parked outside the meat locker and were able to talk to him while he was inside. The two groups make a deal, Jack turns over Zeke and they leave and everything goes back to normal. Jack has them meet out on the bridge at the edge of town, but that point the rain has swept in making it and cloudy. The hand-off should have been simple, but then Zeke noticed his horse by the side of the river and he got a little too comfortable around Daisy…inadvertently running right next to her, in reach for her to grab his arm and bite it before Jack could pull her away. Colette had enough of this situation and immediately shot at Daisy, blowing her arm off. As the horse ran off from the gunshots, Zeke refused to exist in this world as one of them. He wrested the gun out of Jack’s hands then immediately turned it on himself and blew his own brains out. Daisy immediately lunged for Zeke’s body, inadvertently slipping off the side of the bridge and falling into the rampaging water below. Sam ran up and grabbed Jack, pulling him away from falling off and knocking him out in the process. Honestly probably the best move, he for sure would have jumped after her as he will have to find out who he is without his family. Something he should have started a long time ago. The issue ends with quick check ins on the rest of the group. The researcher found herself in the mill, where we found out in the first issue a researcher exploring alternative power setup shop and had a good system starting up with flowing water. The researcher is fascinated by it, unfortunately missing the zombie researcher standing behind her. Here’s hoping she isn’t hungry. Alternatively two of the other trigger happy members who were both injured earlier (one cut on glass and one Jack shot) found their way to the walled off farm Jack runs. Isn’t that fun.
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November 22, 2025
This story is incredibly bleak and tragic, but also good.
December 4, 2025
I’m so intrigued by this story.
December 15, 2025
OMGs! What’s next?
February 12, 2026
see issue one review
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