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Zombie Tramp #1
Zombie Tramp Vol. 1
A high-priced Hollywood call-girl gets set up on a bad date by her transvestite madame, gets bitten by a zombie, and seeks out vengeance on those who wronged her. Cartoon grindhouse action abounds, with voodoo queens, zombie convicts, and crooked police!
128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 24, 2013
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July 28, 2019
2.5 stars.
If i were still 15, I would have thought this was the greatest thing ever made. I don't say that as an attack on this book, but rather to show the mindset that you need to really enjoy this. If cartoony boobies and blood are your thing, you will probably like this. My enjoyment was also hampered by the art, which isnt super good, although i did sneak a peek at later issues and it doesn seem to get a little better.
If i were still 15, I would have thought this was the greatest thing ever made. I don't say that as an attack on this book, but rather to show the mindset that you need to really enjoy this. If cartoony boobies and blood are your thing, you will probably like this. My enjoyment was also hampered by the art, which isnt super good, although i did sneak a peek at later issues and it doesn seem to get a little better.
May 5, 2022
I loved it, it was a little slow to start. The artwork is very cartoony because as the artwork at the end showed realist art would've been too much. I loved the artwork and it was kinda following the Sin City formula of B&W art with only Red and Blue colours. The story was nice though a little simplistic but I still liked it. Hey, I may be touching 40 but I am still 15 when it comes to enjoying things so it was wonderful.
I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I can. I Love comics to the bits, may the comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I can. I Love comics to the bits, may the comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
July 27, 2022
Streak of whimsy hit me hard - and to kill some unexpected free time - and I ended up reading this. Not sure I understood anything except blood drinking supernatural beings killing everyone in sight.
July 16, 2017
Janey Belle is just a high priced Hollywood call girl who makes the wrong decision when she chooses to help out her Madame, George. When George is arrested, Janey is asked to spend a night with Sheriff Rudolph in exchange for George's freedom. Except the sheriff wants more than to spend a night with Janey; he also wants to feed her to his zombie son, Jason. Janey wakes up from the encounter a zombie herself, and bent on getting revenge against the people who caused her to die... and become reanimated. Aided by the Voodoo Queen Xula, Janey visits her old madame and then the sheriff, each one in turn satisfying the rage of betrayal and abuse in Janey. She possesses some interesting abilities, too, which I very much liked about the story. For example, Janey, if she loses a part of her body, can replace it with someone else's part. It was amusing to see her tear an arm off and stick it on her own body. And, it seems that each night Janey must sleep in the ground, and once she awakens she is regenerated. The book art is a gorgeous scheme of bold black, white, red and grey. I love the style of art that Mendoza is gifted with because it is sexy and yet still grotesque. Highly recommended to people who like horror comics, or just zombies in general.
August 28, 2015
I feel that this is a great girl power comic! Is that weird? Every issue I read, I'm like "Yeah, you go girl!" I don't really know why... But she's strong, independent, and so funny!
May 2, 2016
I first hear about Zombie Tramp at free comic book day and have been waiting for it to come out as a TPB. If you read the free comic book day printing you should know it has like nothing to do with the events in the TPB.
As for the comic, it's grindhouse. I enjoyed it but didn't feel that anyone's story was really gone into which is a shame because I think that it would have been great to learn more about the characters past the surface stuff. I really wanted more of a back story from Xula, and more of an explanation about the Rudolf family.
Bottom line if you like the grindhouse style you'd probably like this. If you want history and back story for your characters this will probably bug you. That being said I'll still read the next volume.
As for the comic, it's grindhouse. I enjoyed it but didn't feel that anyone's story was really gone into which is a shame because I think that it would have been great to learn more about the characters past the surface stuff. I really wanted more of a back story from Xula, and more of an explanation about the Rudolf family.
Bottom line if you like the grindhouse style you'd probably like this. If you want history and back story for your characters this will probably bug you. That being said I'll still read the next volume.
October 23, 2016
This pulp, grindhouse glory: gore and sex in a highly stylized and almost newsprint comic style. The contrast between the gore and the cartoonish-ness actually works here, the playing against the tone making the outlandish elements seem deliberate and played for dark comedy. It is very much like a late 1970s or early 1980s Grindhouse movie in comic form.
March 1, 2015
The art was kinda simplified but still done very well. The paper quality was pretty good, too. I enjoyed the storyline a lot. It was good to know how Janey got started with becoming the zombie tramp.
June 2, 2019
Tam da çizgi roman havamdayım bu gece. Ama bunu sevmedim. Çizimler falan güzel ama çok saçma bir şekilde kendini tekrar ediyor. Anlamadım neden üşenmişler herhalde çizmeye 🤷🏻♀️ aşırı rahatsız etti beni konu idare eder olsa da ama biraz klişe gibi. Başka bir şeye geçmeyi düşünüyorum.
January 8, 2017
Awesome!
This was a really cool book, skimpy costumes aside, the art style is really cool and the story is awesome!
This was a really cool book, skimpy costumes aside, the art style is really cool and the story is awesome!
December 2, 2017
Excellent for all zombie lovers.
June 6, 2017
For whatever strange, errant, or fetishistic reason one should desire to purchase a comic book about a high-end prostitute in Los Angeles whose chance encounter with a Voodoo priestess sees her on the good end of a brand-new zombie enterprise . . . for whatever reason one might have for stumbling upon ZOMBIE TRAMP, they are likely to get precisely what they desire.
To this end, the comic never strays far from what it assures readers is all they need: nudity, zombies, and nude zombies. Indeed, why can't life be so simple?
ZOMBIE TRAMP plunks readers into the daily grind of Janey, whose world is turned upside-down when her once-beneficent pimp, George, hands her over to the local sheriff in a sly effort to evade prison time. Janey has some level of intelligence, most of it gleaned from surviving on street corners, but her loyalty to those whom have given her a fair shot at life puts her on a higher moral plane than others. For suburban westerners, this may not sound like much -- a prostitute invoking her humanity in an effort to live freely -- but for Janey, and for ZOMBIE TRAMP in general, it's the inevitable usurpation of common kindness that sends everyone and everything straight to hell.
Corruption, anger, and some really weird shit later, Janey is a zombie out for revenge. (Apparently, betrayal doesn't go down well with the undead.)
Helping along Janey along the way is Xula, a self-proclaimed Voodoo queen. Xula is a buxom black woman who knows what she wants (and is ever so pleased to be told she can't have it. . .). Her escaping incarceration and coming across Janey in the course of executing her own vendetta against Orange County law enforcement is a match made in . . . somewhere. Blood, dismemberment, and nudity follow. A good time is had by all.
The art of ZOMBIE TRAMP, by and large, is rather dull. The book lacks detail, has no use for nuance, and is perfectly comfortable nudging the narrative closer to the absurd than need be. The selective coloring -- primarily red -- is helpful and fun, but the blocky character styling and serviceable pacing can make reader engagement a chore. ZOMBIE TRAMP is straightforward mild gore, and is unapologetic in its camp; however, the comic is also predictable, and by extension, unenlightening.
To this end, the comic never strays far from what it assures readers is all they need: nudity, zombies, and nude zombies. Indeed, why can't life be so simple?
ZOMBIE TRAMP plunks readers into the daily grind of Janey, whose world is turned upside-down when her once-beneficent pimp, George, hands her over to the local sheriff in a sly effort to evade prison time. Janey has some level of intelligence, most of it gleaned from surviving on street corners, but her loyalty to those whom have given her a fair shot at life puts her on a higher moral plane than others. For suburban westerners, this may not sound like much -- a prostitute invoking her humanity in an effort to live freely -- but for Janey, and for ZOMBIE TRAMP in general, it's the inevitable usurpation of common kindness that sends everyone and everything straight to hell.
Corruption, anger, and some really weird shit later, Janey is a zombie out for revenge. (Apparently, betrayal doesn't go down well with the undead.)
Helping along Janey along the way is Xula, a self-proclaimed Voodoo queen. Xula is a buxom black woman who knows what she wants (and is ever so pleased to be told she can't have it. . .). Her escaping incarceration and coming across Janey in the course of executing her own vendetta against Orange County law enforcement is a match made in . . . somewhere. Blood, dismemberment, and nudity follow. A good time is had by all.
The art of ZOMBIE TRAMP, by and large, is rather dull. The book lacks detail, has no use for nuance, and is perfectly comfortable nudging the narrative closer to the absurd than need be. The selective coloring -- primarily red -- is helpful and fun, but the blocky character styling and serviceable pacing can make reader engagement a chore. ZOMBIE TRAMP is straightforward mild gore, and is unapologetic in its camp; however, the comic is also predictable, and by extension, unenlightening.
February 18, 2017
A totally trashy guilty-pleasure type book. Simple writing, nice strong contrast stylized high action art, totally filled wall to wall with T&A. It revolves around a high price call girl to the stars that ends up bitten by a zombie, turned and taken in by a Voodoo priestess and hell bent on revenge. It's stupid but fun.
January 10, 2020
The title more or less says it all, you have a Zombie Tramp. I was surprised by how much we spent with her as a human before we got to see her other side. This is an indie book in all the right ways, weird and twisted.
October 17, 2017
Okay, look, I can't defend this. But I did kinda enjoy it.
July 16, 2018
Love this Comic so much! Quickly became my Favorite Comic. The right amount of Gore and Comedy :D Just perfect
June 5, 2024
We read the first 2 volumes of this for my comic club. I’m going to be brutally honest here, this was the worst shit we’ve read in quite a while. It doesn’t work as a horror, the dark comedy never even got a chuckle out of me, and the main character is a bland, amoral psychopath who’s never even accidentally likeable or charming. By the time she monologues about how killing and eating random people is “liberating” because it displays how powerful she’s become, I realized I’m just reading a C-tier fetish fiction. I wish I could tell you that this is good by the low standards of “vore” power fantasy…but I’m not sure it even clears that bar. Seriously, fuck this comic.
September 8, 2025
This series is very good for what it is, a comic about a call girl who becomes a zombie. I've read other criticism of the plot, but I knew that this likely wouldn't be a very plot driven story going in. It's fun to read, and it may even be memorable. I liked the art style, it's a cartoonish gorefest and you will either resonate with that or not.
I'd love to collect this series, but it might be a little difficult. If you love cool girl cover art, you can find a lot of great covers in this series. I wish I got into this early on.
I'd love to collect this series, but it might be a little difficult. If you love cool girl cover art, you can find a lot of great covers in this series. I wish I got into this early on.
April 10, 2023
This is just good clean zombie tramp fun. Good solid story with fun characters, dislikable bad guys and some carry over of plot development into future volumes. Artwork isn’t going to rock the art world but it suits the story and I like it.
December 24, 2024
I dug the artwork a lot. And I think, for the storyline, at its core, this is a feminist piece. Our main zombie tramp is really sticking it to everyone that screwed her over and it looks to continue in a similar fashion. Idk if I’ll be along for the ride, though.
May 27, 2017
I expected a lot more from this story. The premise = amazing! Unfortunately, I was underwhelmed.
June 29, 2018
Just reading one of the comics, I can’t really form too much of a judgement, but I did meet the author at Orocon.
October 8, 2018
DPL hoopla.
July 23, 2019
Slow start
May 17, 2020
Meh. Quick read, decent art with a so-so story.
May 22, 2023
Zombie tramp vol. 1
In this volume, it is the beginning of zombie tramp and what action that were taken to get her to what she is now.
In this volume, it is the beginning of zombie tramp and what action that were taken to get her to what she is now.
June 9, 2024
If zombie tramp has no fans I am dead
November 18, 2015
The premise of this book is really interesting. A high end prostitute gets turned into a zombie. She saves some prostitutes from danger and then there is the zombie Elvis who wants to marry her. With this kind of wacky premise I expected a lot more humor, but the story is rather dry and confusing. The book could use more time explaining the backstory of the main character and developing a plot for her that is both interesting and funny.
The art is good with a cartoony feel that works well with the premise of the story.
The art is good with a cartoony feel that works well with the premise of the story.
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August 7, 2011as far as small publications/indie books go, this rises above the average. the art is clean and simple, but stylish. the story is simple and straightforward. but the concept and execution of the story are FUN. a quick little read that will leave you with a grin on your face.
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