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Sep 15 2010 9:30am
Sep 15 2010 9:30am
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Dear Melissa
A little zombie love-letter, from the team who brought us King of an Endless Sky and The Dreaded Question.
26 comments
Best zombie short story I've read in a while. Zombie stories often seem to rely on the long form in order to effectively set up their themes - if you want readers to feel the hopeless, horrific drudgery of inevitable assimilation and death, you have to build it over time, like a sort of "Groundhog Day" of carnage. This story tries to set a different tone by starting at the end of a longer story that zombie watchers know pretty well. Then its last scene is either horrifyingly hopeless or sweetly hopeful, depending on your P.O.V. Thanks, TOR.com, for putting this one out on the web.
Great art and an interesting story, but there's something weird i can't quite put my finger on that leaves me a little unsatisfied. Maybe i just wanted more of a real story instead of a zombie metaphor for an abusive relationship. Or maybe the juxtaposition of introspection with the expectation of mindless undead is just creating too much dissonance for me.
I really liked this :) The ending was rather sweet and a little sad. Mostly sweet, because there IS hope.
Ha! That was really good. Excellent art, sweet story, and a nice little twist. Aww, poor zombie guy.
Great art, and an excellent story. That line about sometimes feeling like a passenger in his own body was incisive and clever - don't we all feel that way sometimes?
If the plethora of zombie stories was a original as this one, I wouldn't be sick of zombie stories. I'd like Kurt and Zelda to apply their talents to the overdone vampire genre as well
Wow. What a swath of comments with brown noses. Some were so anxious to begin the kissing up they seem to have been unaware that this is not a single panel presentation. How erudite! Feel free to email everyone a Nuevo Critic certificate. ROFLMAO!
@Textpert
I'm struggling to understand how this not being a single panel presentation is even relevant since I can't find anywhere that this comic claimed to be, or that it not being takes away from how well it was done. I don't know about a Nuevo Critic certificate but your Douche of the Week award is in the mail.
I'm struggling to understand how this not being a single panel presentation is even relevant since I can't find anywhere that this comic claimed to be, or that it not being takes away from how well it was done. I don't know about a Nuevo Critic certificate but your Douche of the Week award is in the mail.
@Textpert
Wow. In your rush to judgment you left justice behind. Too bad you didn't think it through. Did you notice that some of those commenters referenced stuff not visible on the first page of the comic? What did you think they were talking about? If you read all nine pages it was clear.
For future information and to avoid making yourself look idiotic and judgmental, be aware that comments display as though they remark on page one even when the comment is actually only added after reading all the pages of the comic -- it's just the way it works here. So what you deemed to be a bunch of sycophants are just people who enjoyed the entire story, all nine pages of it -- as I did -- and then added a comment -- as I am now doing.
Wow. In your rush to judgment you left justice behind. Too bad you didn't think it through. Did you notice that some of those commenters referenced stuff not visible on the first page of the comic? What did you think they were talking about? If you read all nine pages it was clear.
For future information and to avoid making yourself look idiotic and judgmental, be aware that comments display as though they remark on page one even when the comment is actually only added after reading all the pages of the comic -- it's just the way it works here. So what you deemed to be a bunch of sycophants are just people who enjoyed the entire story, all nine pages of it -- as I did -- and then added a comment -- as I am now doing.
PartyChris,
We don't have a sequel for this coming up but we certainly have more stories from Teetering Bulb planned. (I should try to maintain a professional distance but, I'm just too a big a fan of theirs.)
We don't have a sequel for this coming up but we certainly have more stories from Teetering Bulb planned. (I should try to maintain a professional distance but, I'm just too a big a fan of theirs.)
You got me. You totally got me with that ending. A wry story, funny/violent/sad/unsettling/nice. Fricken love y'all.
(dan)
oh! and that little slotted door/behind the slotted door juxtaposition on page 3 was brilliant.
(dan)
oh! and that little slotted door/behind the slotted door juxtaposition on page 3 was brilliant.
Well, my alias says it all. Although I must add that this twist was extremely refreshing. And combined with such spectacular artwork makes it really memorable. thanx for what you do!
