rattybluestocking's review
4.0
I really, really, really liked this. I was a big fan of the movie 28 Days Later, and I really liked how this series connected that movie to 28 Weeks Later.
I liked Selena's character in the movie, but she was such an even more awesome bad@$$ in this! I could have honestly done without the love story; I mean I got why they were throwing it in there, but personally I could have done without it.
Sometimes the art was...eh, but it was violently awesome and well-done despite how I felt about the drawings.
In all, if you're a fan of zombies or the 28 movies, or you're just looking for something bloody violent then pick this up!!
I liked Selena's character in the movie, but she was such an even more awesome bad@$$ in this! I could have honestly done without the love story; I mean I got why they were throwing it in there, but personally I could have done without it.
Sometimes the art was...eh, but it was violently awesome and well-done despite how I felt about the drawings.
In all, if you're a fan of zombies or the 28 movies, or you're just looking for something bloody violent then pick this up!!
queerandweird's review
3.0
Very fun read, true to story but I was dismayed by the love storyline for Selena and the many many many illogical decisions made by the characters. There were some scenes that were difficult to interpret by the way they were drawn, it seems as if the story were made for film instead of graphic novel. Collection was good, the art was excitingly bloody. The artists took liberty with rage zombie costume design in a way the movie couldn't though.
In all it gets three stars instead of four because the relationship felt forced and unnecessary and their desicions were so terrible.
Selena FTW
In all it gets three stars instead of four because the relationship felt forced and unnecessary and their desicions were so terrible.
Selena FTW
etienne02's review
2.0
2,5/5. 28 Days Later, the movie, was an unique masterpiece of horror movie, true to itself and very good. This comic book didn't do it justice. It isn't bad, but far from the style, the ambiance and the originality of what the movie had bring in its time. This book just goes with the overall work done on zombie for the last decade or so. Like I said, not bad, but I was expecting way more out of this one!
brucemri's review
5.0
It turns out that the 28 Days Later comic book series is one of the very best comics tie-ins I've ever read. This volume collects it all.
This is a marvelously constructed series. It opens shortly after the end of 28 Days Later the movie, with a team of American journalists trying to get into Britain and find out what's happening beyond the official story, and recruiting Selena, one of the 3 survivors of the movie, as their guide. It ends at the same moment as 28 Weeks Later, and not far away, though the protagonists don't know about that final shot. In between, there's weeks of trying to get from (they reckon) relatively unguarded Scotland down to London. This being a horror comic, things seldom go very well.
Writer Michael Alan Nelson shows an exceptionally strong sense of Selena as a person. She's the centerpiece of this story, and he brings her to life. The flashbacks to her life before everything went to hell and leading up to the moment where she first killed someone infected are brief and heartbreaking. And the series has enough space - 24 issues - to show the toll the ongoing work of survival takes, and the moments where her facade can and must crumble.
It can be tricky to make a whole cast interesting when the audience knows that most of them are there to get killed off along the way. Nelson manages it superbly. I was genuinely surprised more than once, and found it easy to wish everyone on the main stage well. Nelson does a particularly good job anchoring the shattering calamity that's hit Britain in the wider world, and to give good reasons both for the American journalists to feel prepared for their work and for their preparations to fall apart.
Declan Shalvey and Alejandro Aragon draw most of the issues, and have styles similar enough to keep the series feeling like a coherent whole, which is a distinct surprise and pleasure all its own. It's not my favorite art style, but it grew on me as I read. Everyone's identifiable, which is not a thing to take for granted, and nobody looks just copied off model sheets: characters belong in each panel as part of the scene. That may sound like faint praise if you haven't read a lot of tie-in comics, but seriously, it's noteworthy. Further, the action is always clear - I never had to flip back and forth across several pages trying to figure out what's going on. Again, you might think that's just natural and to be expected, but it isn't.
Finally, the payoff is superb. There is good news amid the bad; this is not a story that ends with everyone dying. The curve of emotional energy rises fairly sharply in the final third of the book, but in a way that makes excellent sense. Much of the series has had the characters in varying degrees of shock from unexpected official and unofficial hostility and focused on moment by moment survival. As that burden lifts some and they begin to see the wider horizons of possibility, fresh loads come with the changing prospects. Mmm, good stuff.
Highly recommended.
(I should note: I got this via Hoopla Digital, which continues to be just a fantastic resource for comics reading.)
This is a marvelously constructed series. It opens shortly after the end of 28 Days Later the movie, with a team of American journalists trying to get into Britain and find out what's happening beyond the official story, and recruiting Selena, one of the 3 survivors of the movie, as their guide. It ends at the same moment as 28 Weeks Later, and not far away, though the protagonists don't know about that final shot. In between, there's weeks of trying to get from (they reckon) relatively unguarded Scotland down to London. This being a horror comic, things seldom go very well.
Writer Michael Alan Nelson shows an exceptionally strong sense of Selena as a person. She's the centerpiece of this story, and he brings her to life. The flashbacks to her life before everything went to hell and leading up to the moment where she first killed someone infected are brief and heartbreaking. And the series has enough space - 24 issues - to show the toll the ongoing work of survival takes, and the moments where her facade can and must crumble.
It can be tricky to make a whole cast interesting when the audience knows that most of them are there to get killed off along the way. Nelson manages it superbly. I was genuinely surprised more than once, and found it easy to wish everyone on the main stage well. Nelson does a particularly good job anchoring the shattering calamity that's hit Britain in the wider world, and to give good reasons both for the American journalists to feel prepared for their work and for their preparations to fall apart.
Declan Shalvey and Alejandro Aragon draw most of the issues, and have styles similar enough to keep the series feeling like a coherent whole, which is a distinct surprise and pleasure all its own. It's not my favorite art style, but it grew on me as I read. Everyone's identifiable, which is not a thing to take for granted, and nobody looks just copied off model sheets: characters belong in each panel as part of the scene. That may sound like faint praise if you haven't read a lot of tie-in comics, but seriously, it's noteworthy. Further, the action is always clear - I never had to flip back and forth across several pages trying to figure out what's going on. Again, you might think that's just natural and to be expected, but it isn't.
Finally, the payoff is superb. There is good news amid the bad; this is not a story that ends with everyone dying. The curve of emotional energy rises fairly sharply in the final third of the book, but in a way that makes excellent sense. Much of the series has had the characters in varying degrees of shock from unexpected official and unofficial hostility and focused on moment by moment survival. As that burden lifts some and they begin to see the wider horizons of possibility, fresh loads come with the changing prospects. Mmm, good stuff.
Highly recommended.
(I should note: I got this via Hoopla Digital, which continues to be just a fantastic resource for comics reading.)
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