I, Zombie #9 – Review

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

The Story: Gwyn goes out on a date with a monster hunter.

What’s Good: At its core, this comic has a ton of potential as just a human relationship type of comic.  Sure the main character is a zombie, but she still has hopes and aspirations and does things like goes on dates, which is the A-story in this issue.  As a reader is it hard not to like Gwyn and want her to find some happiness in her kinda tragic existence.  Still, you cringe when she goes on a date with Horatio the monster-hunter (to a miniature golf course of all places) because you know it probably won’t end well.

The Allreds’ art continues to be stellar.  When you have art like this in a comic series, you can ride out some rough patches in the story that would be cause real heartburn with weaker art.  Michael Allred has such a nice, soft line.  His women are really pretty in a girl-next-door sort of way; they never look like skanks.  Even the tramps don’t look like skanks.  And Laura Allred’s colors are the perfect match.  I love the blue/white she uses for Gwyn’s hair and the purple/pink for her skin tone.  It makes it clear that she is something other than a normal human.