"World War Z" by Max Brooks was disappointing. By telling the story of the Zombie apocalypse after all the action has happened, Brooks robbed the story of all the tension and action it should have had in order to make it gripping. Told in oral interview form, the book tells the stories of the survivors of the war against the zombies. These interviews are so short that the reader doesn’t have a chance to invest anything emotionally in these people, and as a result we don’t really care about what they went through. Great idea just badly executed.
"Wormwood Gentleman Corpse: Vol 1" by Ben Templesmith was a quick, fun read. Beautiful artwork and a dry sense of humor along with British slang made for a quirky little graphic novel. Wormwood and his sidekicks are called upon to get rid of a demon that Medusa has allowed to come through the porthole at her bar that she was supposed to be guarding. The demon is using humans to spawn, to create a little army, by spiking their Viagra. The ending is laugh out loud cheeky.
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