It was not so long ago that The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman spawned a whole industry of zombie comics including the rather frightening and somewhat gross Crossed series from Avatar that really did cross boundaries and took us a step further away from the sort of mindless zombie plague that was the normal far in both films and comics.
Then DC Vertigo came up with something a little different with a short lived Vertigo series iZombie by Chris Robertson (w) & Michael Allred (a) that featured Gwendoline Dylan as a zombie who worked as a grave digger who had to consume a human brain once a month to keep her humanity. Her job allowed regualr access to the recently deceased and in consuming these organs inherited part of their memories.
The comic series lasted 28 issues. I dropped out after just 7 mainly because I was reading too many zombie comics and this one wasn't really working for me. However as I've started watching and enjoying other DC comics turned into TV shows I thought I'd give this one a try.
The TV programme is inevitably a little different with even the main character going through both a name and career change to become Dr Liv Moore who after being turned into a zombie decides to take employment at a police mortuary.
Liv cuts off her engagement and high flying medical career much to the consternation of those around her. Nobody seems to question her change of appearance too much including her very white complexion. She's certainly the sexiest zombie we've ever seen.
The first thirteen episodes see her use the ability to use the deceased brains to help track down their killers claiming she has visions. Sometimes her personality is quite affected by the people she has eaten but this is seen by those around Liv as an eccentricity of sorts.
The first season was pretty predictable and the villain Blaine who turned her into a zombie at a party is a right piece of work who has a zombie gang working for him as they feed their rich zombie customers the brains of the cities homeless. It helps to have a butchers shop.....
I thought it was pretty average TV to be honest and felt it a bit of a struggle to get through to the final episode which has many cliff hangers waiting for the next season. However for me I think that's the end of the road. iZombie ran for 5 seasons and 71 episodes until 2019
As for what's next for me......more Lucifer. Season four in fact. Now that's TV!
No comments:
Post a Comment