Great story idea: the Black Death was really a zombie plague hushed up by the Catholic church. This was a lot of fun, as we follow a devoted group of crusader/knights fighting their way through a medieval hellscape, trying to discover the secret behind a strange disease that appears to bring the dead back to life. The Church doesn't want this getting out, because it would undercut the story of Jesus, so they've spread the lie that it's all caused by rats and anyone who gets too close to the truth is a heretic and excommunicated. The art was great, just this side of too cartoony--it reminded me a lot of early Walking Dead. And the story and interactions between the knights of Fiat Lux had me hooked. I'm not sure there's anywhere for this story to go at the end (it's fairly conclusive), but I'd pick up a second volume.

Ok, so, we all know that the plague was a super bad thing that killed a bunch of people in Europe throughout the middle ages right?
Well, this book asks the question: "what if the plague actually turned people into zombies? And also, what if the Catholic Church covered it up so that (stay with me here guys) people would not associate JESUS with ZOMBIES."
Add a whole lot of blood and boobs and that basically sums up Pestilence

Knights vs zombies in Middle Ages Europe - instantly forgettable fantasy, easy to see how this originated as a game given the thinness of the plot and clichéd characters. Art was decent but didn’t make up for a boring read.

I really didn't care for this at all. It's bawdy just for the sake of being bawdy and edgy. It's sexist and offensive for no purpose. It really took away from the interesting premise of the comic.

I started reading this with initial skepticism, what with zombies having been done in so very, very, very, very many different ways in the past few years across all forms of media that it has all basically become white noise. However, I found myself pleasantly surprised with this creative take on the genre.

My one major complaint would be that quite a few of the characters feel like they met their ends far too early. They were no mere obvious undead-fodder, but genuinely interesting men and women that I really wanted to read and see more of.

Otherwise though, this twisted mix of zombie pandemic and the Middle Ages is good, wild, and very over-the-top fun.

What if the Zombie Apocalypse didn't happen outside of Atlanta, but instead occurred a thousand years ago during the Crusades! Pestilence explores that concept and Illustrates what would happen.