I, Zombie #6 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors) & Todd Klein (letters)

The Story: Now that we know where zombies, vampires & ghosts come from, what about were-terriers?

What’s Good: Roberson has a pretty complex story to tell and has to deal with the challenge of establishing all of the expansive groundwork for this series without allowing the reader to get bored, because issue #6 is still explaining to the reader “what is going on”.  He does a very good job of continuing exposition in this issue while also telling a touching tale of how Scott (the zombie’s boyfriend) became a were-terrier.  Let’s just say that you’ll never look at roadkill quite the same way again!

But, there is more to his story than that.  It also tells a touching story of how Scott was orphaned at a very young age and was taken in by his grandfather who just happened to be a golden age cartoon voice actor.  Of course, Scott loves this (becoming a comic geek) and has a hard time rationalizing that to his grandfather, this is just a “job” and that he sees as representative of his failure to be a “real actor”.  Clearly Roberson was making parallels to many golden age comic artists who didn’t have any sort of passion for comic books…they just needed a job and they could draw, so they did the work.  As he grows, Scott (predictably) grows away from his grandfather but everything comes full circle in a way that is appropriate for this funny series while also slightly touching.