Series Review: Zombie Tramp

Zombie Tramp - Action Lab Entertainment

I have been passing  by Zombie Tramp for a couple of months now, which is highly unusual for me, being a huge Zombie fan, but I finally broke down and picked up issue one and two, soon after reading the first two issues, I was hooked and rushed out to get the rest of the run.

Zombie Tramp is an impressive young lady who kicks the crap out of bad guys! Our undead heroine, Janey Belle, is a former Hollywood call girl, turned zombie. Janey is not your run of the mill zombie though; she can be killed, but she cannot completely die. 

Unlike the zombies in many stories today, when Janey is shot or takes one to the head, her body dies but her soul does not. Janey’s soul has the ability to jump to another body of her choice - preferably female bodies, since male bodies makes her sick. When Zombie Tramp makes the jump she retains the host body’s appearance at first, but that is short-lived as Janey’s original, and well-endowed, nature takes control. In issue three, there a few panels devoted to Janey’s transformation, particularly her chest. Artists Jason Martin and T.M. Chu made me chuckle with the sound effects that accompanied the “breast enlargement”. Hilarious!

Then there is Elvis. That’s right; a fat undead Elvis impersonator who is gaga for Zombie Tramp and will stop at nothing to get her. But the question is, does he really love her or does he just want to steal her ability to jump bodies? In addition to the body-snatching, Zombie Tramp can also absorb skills from people whose brains she consumes, which makes for many more fun scenarios.

Zombie Tramp is not at all what I thought it was going to be; I guess the title is what threw me off. But I have to say, I really enjoyed Zombie Tramp. It’s a great read and a lot of fun. The artwork is well suited to the story, consistent and understandable. Although it is a horror comic, Zombie Tramp does not contain over the top gore, except maybe the thing involving Elvis’s intestines and a helicopter rotor, but it’s cartoon gore and not that bad!

Check out Zombie Tramp today! Available now at White Dragon Comics.

 - Barbie66

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Review: No Mercy # 1

No Mercy # 1 - Image Comics

No Mercy is a current Image Central comic book series, written by Alex de Campi, with art by Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee.

In the text page at the end of the first issue of No Mercy, Alex de Campi say’s she feels like a fraud to be hanging out at Image Comics with top comic book writers the likes of Brian K. Vaughn and Rick Remender. I can assure you she is anything but a fraud. Alex de Campi delivers!

No Mercy opens right in the thick of things, joining our intrepid crew of college freshman, along with their adult advisors, Alice and Murray, and their local guide, Sister Ines. There are a lot of characters to meet in the first few pages, but Alex manages to give each one their own unique voice and personality, Although, we learn the most about the more talkative and extroverted members of the cast we still get at least a glimpse into the nature of each individual. I’m sure that readers will recognize many of the character “types” depicted here: The insincere rich boy, the womanizing frat boy, the wide-eyed Midwesterner, the tech-addicted naïf, and the “quiet kid”, all remind me of people I have known in the past.

Alice and Murray have arrived at the tiny Mataguey airport, with their crew of twenty plus eighteen and nineteen-year-olds to build schools in a local village. They quickly embark on a ten-hour ride aboard a bus of questionable road-worthiness, joined by Sister Ines and, a last minute, reluctant addition, the Sister’s Uncle (by marriage). Not long into their journey disaster strikes, and this is where our story truly begins. How will a group of naïve and privileged teenagers survive in a harsh landscape surrounded by unknown dangers of every kind, with no supplies, no weapons and no clue?

Alex de Campi’s story readily illustrates how quickly situations can go from bad to worse to just plain awful in only a matter of minutes. I for one cannot wait to see what she throws at these kids next, but I do know that she has promised that their troubles have only begun, and will eventually reach biblical proportions.

The art by Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee is perfectly suited to the tone and tenor of this tale. The cast members are easy to identify, the action is clear and understandable. The artwork enhances and moves the story forward, even on pages with little or no dialogue.

As the tagline says, if you like seeing teenagers die, the pick up a copy of No Mercy today, at White Dragon Comics.

 - W. Dragon

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