iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris RobersonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The story was OK but I felt it was just beginning when this collection came to an end. There were some good ideas (e.g. cute zombie, ghost that's stuck in the past, a not werewolf, ...) but at times it felt a bit derivative (was anybody else reminded of the TV show "Being Human"?).
The artwork is similarly uneven. Mike Allred is clearly talented (some great covers, artwork overlapping interestingly placed panels, the sketches at the end of the book, ...) but often his work looks strangely flat. For example, there is a section where two characters walk across the bottom of the screen while stuff happens in the panels above: an opportunity to inject something dynamic which is squandered by the cookie cutter nature of the walking people.
In summary, interesting but not interesting enough.
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