Monitoring BuyZombie as I often do for any news about the usually awful treatment of the Differently Animated in media, I saw this item today:

In this case it’s the new web comic that I’ve found called Zomblicity that takes 2 looks at the same cast where the only difference is our main character having left 30 minutes late. We’ll see how he is instantly a zombie in one and how he lives his undead life compared to him living in the next ‘version’ as another regular guy stuck in a world infested with zombies.

So what is Zomblicity like? Does it show how a person can be fundamentally the same loving, feeling, thinking human being whether they are alive or Undead?

Nope. Of course not. Sigh.

Instead, if you go to read the comic itself, you’ll find ‘Zomblicity’ to be another tired take on the Zombie Apocalypse enlivened only slightly by its dual-track premise, partially because the stories run in alternation and we haven’t even *seen* any of the portion where the protagonist has become a Zombie yet. Rather, in the first timeline, he wandered around a bit in a city on fire (do Zombies all set fires in this world?) and then is attacked by an oddly shapeless, alien looking creature that we can presume is supposed to be a Zombie.

Apparently Zombification involves having the level of detail needed to convey you drop dramatically. Must be handy for the artist.

In the second storyline the protagonist wakes up a half hour late and.. also wanders through a city even more in flames. Aimlessly. Only this time things go slightly differently and he winds up back at his apartment so he can have sex. Or something.

That’s about as far as it goes so far. The ‘Zombies’ are perplexing to me. They seem to be basic Romero stereotypes, but their simplified look harkens back, oddly enough, to an old, old episode of Lupin the III, at least for me, where he fought some Zombie-like creatures as he tried to steal a gem from them. Lupin is, after all, the bad guy in many respects; he gets by on style, not conventional morality.

I doubt this is intentional however. My guess is, it’s just more prejudice against Zombies. ‘Oh, they’re Zombies, why should I put the extra effort in to drawing them?’

Between that and the copious Anti-Zombie violence and the standard Zombie Apocalypse playset action going on in this comic, The ZRC rates it as Living Supremacist, at least so far. Perhaps, in the future, we can see some improvement on this one.

Tags: Comics, ZRC Reviews

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