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The New Deadwardians (2013)

by Dan Abnett(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401237630 (ISBN13: 9781401237639)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: In an alternate history England, 1890 saw the island overrun with zombies. Desperate to save some semblance of civilization, the nobility turned themselves into vampires, giving them enough strength to wall off London. The world is now comprised of the vampiric noble elite, an underclass of pissed off humans, and endless zombie hordes always searching for a chink in London's armor.Fifty years later, Scotland Yard's last homicide detective is tapped to solve the first murder of a vampire in decades.Disappointing. The art lacks depth; there's virtually nothing to suggest light or shadow. It's all flat-looking figures occupying monochromatic panels. The dialogue is stilted and obvious, and the author keeps re-explaining terms like the reader is an idiot. At least it was... more quick.
review 2: While I did not much care for the art, the story is great. It is an alternate history in which a zombie apocalypse spread across the globe in the 1800s. The British Empire was losing its war for survival when they invented the "Cure" (for death): vampirism (though I do not believe the word "vampire" is ever used, and this really is not a story about vampires or zombies, per se.) Now, in the early 1900s, the zombies are kept at bay by large walls/fences around cities, and most of the British upper class has taken the "Cure." This fact adds an interesting twist both to class tension and British manners: they file down their teeth and behave like normal people. It is considered perverse and unrefined to drink blood. The main character, George Suttle, London's last homicide detective, must deal with all these issues while investigating a mysterious murder: the victim is dead, but not from one of the few ways that it is possible to kill on of the "Young" (stake to the heart, etc.) It would be interesting to explore this world a bit more, if only there were more than just this one volume! less

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