Dedication #1

by Michael Coast

Thanks to some hungry customers, the closing shift at George's Market has turned into a graveyard shift.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics

124 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like the other comics in this line, none of it makes a lick of sense. This is about a grocery store where people break in and ravishly eat all the food. I guess they are supposed to be the zombies even though they look normal. Then some of the people start acting weird and become immortal, I guess. I really don't see how this is paying homage to Night of the Living Dead at all. If A.I. ran a comic book company, it would be this one. Monkeys banging away on a typewriter would write a more coherent comic.

[Frank · Rating 1 out of 5]

Total garbage. When did Evans City, PA become Evans County? And that's just one small detail messed up by this so-called revival of Night of the Living Dead.
This is the Dedication Checked Out issue which seems to be a collection of the first three issues, do you mean there's more? Wow, the only bright side was the $2.99 cover price...and I got this and the Remote Dead Air out of the quarter bin, still way too much.

[Symmonz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful.

[Jeanette Andromeda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an enticing start to the series. Little crumbs of relationships are begun with the characters inside of the grocery store as the zombie outbreak is hinted at through TV and radio broadcasts and the people breaking into the store.

The outbreak itself, is subtle. You know where it’s heading, but nothing has quite hit the fan… yet.

The zombies aren’t rotting corpses wandering around, but are regular looking people acting bizarrely. One moment that made me laugh was, after a herd of people break into the grocery store, they start randomly munching on things. Things like feather dusters and the cardboard part of cereal boxes.

The Art: The most enticing part of this comic is the artwork. The store itself is vibrant and detailed. And the characters draw you in with their spot-on expressions.

A Promising Start: It’s a strong start visually and an enticing start story-wise. I’m really looking forward to seeing how the other stories in the universe connect and where this particular plot-line ends up going.

Verdict: 4.5 out of 5 blood spattered stars. Onwards! To read the next!!

[Keith Irwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the first digital comic I've read which seems to know that it's a digital comic. It does a full page for each panel with captions at the bottom. It's an interesting style choice and one which plays well. The art was reasonable and the dialogue was realistic. But the plot just wasn't very interesting. It's yet another zombie story of some sort. If you're going to do zombies and not have me just be bored, you have to do something original with it. This doesn't. I didn't hate this comic, but I'm definitely not going to be reading further.

[Laura Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's not enough story here to make me want to read #2. At this point, it seems like a generic zombie tale. On the plus side, Ruiz Burgos created an alluring cover.