Well, I finally got around to finishing the Dead Winter archives for the ZRC. (The earlier review is located here)

Sadly, there isn’t much new to report, no sudden progressive attitude on the rights of Reanimated Americans. The comic continues to take the grim, Romero-esque line of Undead Bashing that we’ve all become so familiar with since Night of the Living Dead shambled into theatres.

In these comics, our intrepid band of Lifeists continue to leave a trail of carnage and zombie bodies as they find shelter and community with other ‘survivors’, then eventually set out to loot a Super Walmart or fictional equivalent. There are some close calls, some clever animated pieces, and Mr. Monday Blues lays waste to a bunch of his old life’s enemies in his spare time.

Honestly, that man is a workaholic. Surviving a Zombiepocalypse, a Most Dangerous Game/Running Man competition, AND getting revenge? Serious Type-A personality there.

So yeah. Dead Winter continues to stylishly and creatively bludgeon the reader with its anti-Zombie prejudice over the next 200 some odd updates.

The ZRC therefore has to give this one a thoroughly negative review. For shame, Dead Winter. For shame.

One comic in particular I wanted to highlight as being especially repugnant in its treatment of the Differently Animated can be found here.

See that? A new ‘game’ to be played by blinding a zombie with a toilet plunger, and using them as a variant on Pin the Tail on the Donkey?

That takes the cake, doesn’t it?

Yeesh.

(Dead Winter updates on Tuesdays and Fridays, and can be found at this address)

Tags: Comics, Review

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