Everything Dead and Dying is a gut punch. 100% just straight to the guts. That being said, this graphic novel is one of my favorite serious storylines that I’ve read in a long while. It’s just so well done.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC of Everything Dead and Dying. All opinions stated are my own.

Everything Dead & Dying is an excellent, fast paced story with beautiful art to go along with it. Absolutely devastating though. I read it in one sitting, but at what cost? I'm mad at everyone in this graphic novel except Jack, his family, and town.

Everything Is Dead and Dying by Tate Brombal is a gothic fantasy that blends grief and queer identity with striking emotional depth. Brombal’s lush prose and morally complex characters make the story feel both intimate and unsettling, exploring how love persists even in a world steeped in death. It’s a compelling debut that lingers long after the final page. Dark and haunting Zombie apocalypse graphic novel.

Just when I thought zombie stories were done and had nowhere left to go, Tate Brombal comes along and proves me wrong.

Through five heart-shattering issues, we are shown a man desperately clinging to his former life after he is, seemingly, the only person left uninfected by a zombie plague that struck a dozen years before. As he continues his unvarying routine we're shown flashbacks of his life before, juxtaposing his devotion to his family in death with his sometimes careless behavior in life.

Four and a half stars.

I enjoyed this a lot, although I think enjoyed is not quite the correct term, for such a dark story.

This story was a lot more reflective (and more hopeful) than I was expecting Yes, it's dark, and I felt it was very tragic, (the whole "last man alive" thing always gets me in my feels), but it's a thoughtful, and occasionally harrowing, story of how far someone will go to maintain the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed, even if that lifestyle is no longer real, or viable.

I sympathized with the lead character, despite that the decisions he made aren't the ones I would have made, under those circumstances. The illustrations are painterly and gorgeous, and suitably gory, so not too pretty for this kind of story. They're clear and very well done, and that is always a plus for me, too.

Thanks to Netgalley and Image Comics for the book,

"At the end of the world, where are you meant to go?"

Everything Dead & Dying is the story about one man's desperate, pathetic, and pitiful inability to let go, framed by all the gory glory and horror of a zombie apocalypse and by a struggle with faith in the form of devout Christians as antagonists (though are they really bad people?).
Brombal's characterisation is fantastic here, every single character manages to have a distinct voice and design, the prime focal point and protagonist Jack Chandler tying everything together through the use of extensive flashbacks throughout his life contrasted with the present day reality that he simply refuses to accept. It's almost admirable how hard he holds on, and deeply tragic to see the story give him what he really needs. The art is also brilliant, the action and physicality of the characters particularly standing out, the sense of momentum and movement of Jacob Phillips' art lending an excitement and visceral nature to the whole story that the writing would lack on its own.

Overall, a fantastic comic well worth anyone's time.

I initially had seen that the premise of this title was a post-zombie apocalypse western following a gay dad still living in his town amongst the undead, which was a little misleading. I was hoping for more cowboy vibes and instead read a beautiful story of a man grieving not only the literal loss of his family and normal way of life, but also what could have been, as he keeps a routine and essentially cares for the zombies in his town. I'm very impressed that Brombal has managed to make me care so much about Jack within such a short page count. This one is brutal and heart-wrenching and beautiful and moving.

Wow. This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things l've ever read. It actually made me cry. I never expected that a comic book could do that, but it absolutely wrecked me.
This follows Jack, a farmer who *thinks* he is the last human on Earth, living among the dying. He's lost everything but is holding onto it all so tightly.
His husband, his daughter, his friends, his enemies...
He takes care of the dead as if they were still living.
They let him continue living. Every day starts and ends the same, in that same house with his same dead husband and daughter (in zombie form), until it doesn't... And that's when this will just run you over 50 times and drag you behind it for miles.
I loved this so much. If you are a fan of The Last of Us or Fallout, I think you would enjoy this story.
CONTENT WARNINGS: There is some nudity, explicit language, and some offensive language directed at the LGBTQIA+ community, as there are flashbacks to the main character's traumatic experiences surrounding him discovering his sexuality before meeting his husband. Overall, this comic is incredibly graphic and does also depict graphic images of violence toward animals.

Maybe the real zombie apocalypse is the family we made along the way. 💕

Full disclosure, I don’t know much about comics, so I’m not sure how this compares. However, what I *do* know about is dystopian media. I can’t get enough of the stuff! I’ve pretty much seen every iteration of zombie dystopia one can imagine, and I can confidently report that the genre has pretty much been picked clean to the bone. And yet, this series still managed to grab me by the ankle! After just one issue, I was already rooting for this queer little family. (Not only are there two dads, but two-thirds of them are undead. A family can truly look like anything. 🫶🏻)

While many dystopian works hit on the whole "humans are the real monsters" thing, this story felt beyond your typical do-what-it-takes survivalism. It touched on the very human impulse to erase what doesn’t belong. Jack knew what it meant to exist on the margins and to build a family that others might not understand long before this apocalypse. I appreciate this fresh take on a well-trodden genre.

Thanks to NetGalley and Image Comics for the ARC. All thoughts are my own, for better or worse.

Hell of a book that focuses on the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse in a small rural, town, how one man copes (or extremely doesn't) with it all, and what happens when outsiders show up. (Hint, not good things)

Amazing read!! The storyline is amazing!! I feel so sad what happens to all the zombie. It was unexpected that the zombies all can live peacefully like that. It sad after all those years of peaceful those people come and ruined it. I know I shouldn’t feel bad for the zombies but deym the more i read the story the more I feel that they are more human than human. The story is so amazing!!
I really enjoyed the book!

Everything Dead & Dying is a beautifully illustrated comic that hits way harder than you might expect at first glance. On the surface, it can be read as a post-apocalyptic survival story about a farmer just trying to make it through the end of the world. Crops, hard choices, and day-to-day survival are all there, giving it that gritty, grounded feel.

But dig a little deeper and it turns into something far more heartbreaking. This is really the story of a husband and a father who’s willing to do absolutely anything to protect his family - even when it feels like he’s already lost them. The comic does a great job showing how much we’re capable of sacrificing for the people we love, and how those sacrifices don’t always look heroic or logical from the outside. Some choices may seem pointless or wrong, but for someone else, they might be the only form of salvation left. It’s emotional, raw, and quietly devastating in the best way.

Hi! Looking for a comic that will emotionally eviscerate you? Did you perhaps love the early days of "Walking Dead," but want something with a slightly different twist on zombie lore? Does life have you so depressed that the only thing that can take the edge off is media that is also deeply depressing? Great! I have a rec for you.

I'm predisposed to love zombie stories, so I'm definitely biased here. At its best, zombie lore has something to say about our relationship with death, and this series most certainly does. The more we learn about Jack, and about his relationships with the people in his town, the more it becomes clear that he's not simply hanging onto the past. He's taking care of people he loves, even when they're (maybe, mostly) gone.

I appreciated that this comic makes two simultaneous arguments, one for valuing life and one for valuing love, and it never comes cleanly down on who's right and wrong. Some of the characters are pretty awful, but others are just trying to do the best they can in a situation where nobody can win.

For a comic series this short, I think it did everything it set out to do in a way that was fast-paced but not rushed. I think the version I read had some extraneous pages that will probably not make it into the final print run, but I hope they keep the end pages; I appreciate the attention to detail as things fall apart.

4.5*, beautiful and heartbreaking, and more emotional than a comic with this much gore has any right to be. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC of the complete anthology.

What if, in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, you stayed home, tending to your farm, and protecting your undead family? This new take on a frequent concept mixes the bucolic with the gory with visceral art direction, and a poignant and heartbreaking story.

Thank you Image Comics for my ARC! A beautifully written and illustrated graphic novel that is heart-wrenching and innovative. I loved this story, and it’s the perfect read for those that love THE WALKING DEAD, THE LAST OF US, or those looking for zombie story with a dash of romance and a lot heart.

This was such a heartbreaking read. Straight away the reader becomes aware of the gravity of what is happening and it just becomes darker from there. Original story told through themes that are harrowing and relatable.

Everything Dead & Dying is one of the best stories I’ve read all year. Comprising five issues, this collection follows a rural farmer and his small town in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, blending his current reality with his memories from "before."

This story stood out to me for its unique concept; it feels entirely fresh. The artwork oscillated between gory and sweet, while the story read as both hopeful and heartbreaking. It is a rare feat to make a reader mourn characters they are only just meeting, but this book manages it with grace.

This is a hauntingly beautiful must-read for fans of character-driven horror and high-concept graphic novels. This is a story that will stick with me for a long time.

Thank you to NetGalley and Image Comics for providing the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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This was a great graphic novel - it hit the perfect balance of thought-provoking and heartfelt, while also full of action and horror. I thought it had a strong story, with a relatable and flawed MC. This is far from a light story, with moments of homophobia, gore, and grief, but it was a quick read nonetheless. It was an impactful meditation on grief, and how the ones we lose never really leave us, sometimes literally.

The art was well done, and I thought the parallels of past and present were presented in a compelling way. This is not your average zombie story - I thought it was a unique take that will stick with me for some time beyond the last page. I would recommend this graphic novel to anyone who likes the zombie genre (with the caveat that you should be in the mood for heavier/more emotional).

Beautiful full color images 🖤


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I loved that the baby was named Daisy, wonderful storyline

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me a copy. I read issues 1-5 for this review. This was so absolutely heartbreaking and really puts forth the idea "what would i do if my family succumbed to a horrible illness that turned them into zombies"? The answer is probably not one anyone could pick easily and in these 5 issues we get to see two completely different paths. 1. learn to live with them even if they are not coherent and 2. immediately end their suffering. We get to see flashes back in time from when the main character was growing up in a small farming town and grappling with his identity, finding his partner and becoming a father and then having to navigate an unthinkable situation in which he finds himself to be one of the few to not get sick from the virus going around. I deeply sympathized with Jack as parent because how does one even begin to decide what to do in this situation. I kept seeing this in my local comic shop and im so glad(sad?) i finally decided to give it a go.

Everything Dead and Dying by Tate Brombal was horrific and amazing. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

I got an ARC of this book.

I didn't really know what to expect. I wanted to read it based on the title and the cover. I went in without any clue what this would be about. I was wonderfully surprised for a queer zombie story of loss and family.

What is family? When does someone stop being family? When does someone start being family?

All incredibly large questions that get a bit of an answer through the lens of a zombie apocalypse. This book hit emotions harder and faster than any other zombie media I have engaged with. It is on par with The Walking Dead video game by Tell Tale Games and the comic book series. It is about the people, not the zombies in the end.

Wonderful read.

5⭐️ thank you to Netgalley for the e-ARC of the trade paperback. just WOW. Really incredible small-town zombie story with a tight narrative and solid pacing. The art is spectacular. The themes of family, queerness, and community are handled with such care, and the zombie horror packs a punch. One of those stories that stays with you for a long time.

A queer zombie horror that is also a tender love story.

Tate takes such a unique approach to the zombie apocalypse by imagining zombies as falling back into their usual routine. As long as they are fed, the mail carrier continues to deliver mail, Jack's husband continues to make 'breakfast' and his daughter wakes him up every morning. The small farming town Jack lives in continues to bustle with Jack feeding the town in the morning with animal meat, and then he continues to grow his crops and farm his animals. Year's later uninfected people arrive and throw off the delicate balance Jack has cultivated.

This horror comic ties in the fast-paced action that zombie survivalists love to read about with a gorgeously tender and heartbreaking love story of a man so deep in his grief that he can't let his family or his community go.

Pick this up if you love
- Zombie apocalypse stories
- Twist on the genre
- Are the zombies really that bad?
- The dark things we do for love
- A tender and heartbreaking love story

This book is best read while feeding chickens, the fingers of your enemies.

I haven't read comics since I was a child, not for any particular reason, it just happened.

So going in to this with zero expectations, I was not expecting the emotional gut punch this was. 1000% recommend! :D

Thank you Netgalley and Image Comics for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review!

Everything Dead & Dying is one of the most tragically human graphic novels I've ever read. The zombie apocalypse has beset a small Canadian town. All but one resident has become a shambling shell of their former selves, going through the motions of their last days as long as they are fed. We jump back and forth in time between our main character Jack's former life from childhood to just before the virus and twelve years after the zombies came to be. This story is about a man trying desperately to protect his family, his home, and his way of life, even when none of it is what he once though it would be. I absolutely loved Jack and his struggle for life in the face of almost certain death.

This was such a wonderful read. A unique take on the zombie apocalypse that was heart wrenching but warm at the same time. The idea of the world ending is hard to process and sometimes keeping to the routine is the best way.

Wow, that was both beautiful and bleak.

I once had a conversation about how there are only two kinds of zombie story outcomes: everyone is going to die or everyone lives to fight another day. I suppose there's also "the zombies aren't so bad," "I fell in love with a zombie and we make it work," and "zombies are a metaphor, actually."

Anyway, whatever, this is the depressing one. But I feel better to have read it. It's an incredibly moving story of a gay farmer surviving after a zombie apocalypse in Canada, and the past that shaped him and the present in which he exists. Cannot wait to tell everyone I know (who can handle all the death) about it so we can cry together.

A beautifully illustrated and incredibly unique spin on a zombie story.

Twelve-years-ago, a flu-like virus brought about the living dead and Jack Chandler has been maintaining his farm, and keeping the zombies in Caverton fed and docile ever since, including his husband Luke, and their adopted daughter Daisy.

'Everything Dead & Dying' is a story of loss, acceptance, queer identity, and what defines humanity when faced with a world that has blurred the boundaries of morality and necessity.

The story is told in a non-linear series of flashbacks, interspersed with the current day, when a group of survivors, searching for their new utopia stumble upon Caverton, Jack, and the community he's kept, well, not "alive" but... functioning.

With excellent pacing, a heart-wrenching narrative, and full of some exceptionally juicy (sorry!) illustrated gore, 'Everything Dead & Dying' is a fresh spin on the zombie genre.

A story of grief in a world left to a lone man attempting to keep his world alive in the midst of death.

Trigger warnings: Death, domestic abuse, bigotry & racism, grief of loved ones, and gore.

Routine is the savior of the day and grief is the true monster. Loneliness can make a person do incredible things, and guilt, even more so. From the opening page, the art lunges at the reader to tug at its heartstrings. There is genuine humanity bleeding into the pages that only the soulless would miss. The story feels like it could be happening in the background of any zombie feature, though the art, tone, and themes do evoke ‘The Walking Dead’.

In this reader’s opinion, this is genuinely one of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching stories that deserves more accolades and recognition than I fear it will ever receive. The main concern being it may ignored by some due to a slow burn first issue, but that slow burn sets up something that honestly moved this reader to tears and will be devouring this story again in the very near future.

Anyone who enjoyed ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘That Texas Blood’ are sure to enjoy this series.

An absolute must-read, ‘Everything Dead & Dying’ brings heart to a rotten world.

In Tate Brombal's Everything Dead & Dying, the zombie apocalypse is presented as a world of preserving memory while decay takes hold. Alongside Jacob Phillips' stunning artwork it is a remarkable piece of horror storytelling about the things we preserve.

The core of the story is protagonist Jack Chandler, the only survivor of a zombie outbreak in the small town of Caverton, Canada. His daily life consists of maintaining a steady food supply and tending to his "flock", the undead townspeople who seem docile enough if well fed. He also cares for his husband and adopted daughter who both became undead when the apocalypse began.

As he cultivates the land, he also cultivates the zombified townsolk. He keeps the town fed to preserve some degree of habit and normalcy in a decaying world. The novel brilliantly contrasts the bucolic nostaliga of Jack's farm life in the past against the horrors of his present, particularly in the first issue which provides a fantastic narrative hook. It's a remarkable opening statement that had me completely sucked in.

From here the story explore thornier, more complicated territory. It asks how we continue tending to a place that caused us so much pain in life, and what can we do when the land and its inhabitants is coming to an end. So much zombie media is focused on the moment of catastrophe or exploring what comes after, but "Dead & Dying" insteads occupies a middle space. Through Jack's character we're presented with a world trapped in amber, one where the world can't move on. It's deeply fascinating stuff, and so beautifully rendered by Brombal's writing and Phillip's stunning art.

It's getting to the point where I will instantly read anything that Image Comics put out. They clearly have such love for supporting the visions of truly talented artists, and Everything Dead & Dying continutes this trendly beautifully.

Many thanks to Image Comics for the review copy of this one! The collected edition comes out this April, absolutely check it out.

Jesus Christ. What a beautifully tragic story. Brombal and Phillips were already some of the best in comics but this was insane. I haven't been emotionally devastated by a graphic novel like that in a long time. The zombie genre (for me) can get really boring real fast. This take was fresh and yet familiar enough to dive in easily without wasting time on some big lore about how things happened. It is hyper focused and character driven in the best ways. I am in awe. Thanks to NetGalley and Imagine for the ARC of the trade.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read a review this comic. All I can say is that they should have just left him alone.

Many thanks to Image Comics and NetGalley for the advanced copy of Tate Brombal’s exciting take on zombie horror, Everything Dead & Dying. This comic was surprising for a few different reasons, and they were all good diversions from zombie horror. In fact, I think that this story presents the kind of survivor story where the competing goals and hopes of survivors become more of the horror than the actual zombies. Nevertheless, these pages are filled with decay, gore, and violence, all while providing an inventive and emotional rendering of this kind of horror.
The story focuses primarily on Jack Chandler, a man who lives in a remote rural farming community with his husband and daughter. We learn that Jack’s father left him the farm and land despite being estranged from him due to Jack’s sexuality. Through the use of flashbacks throughout the story, we learn more about Jack’s challenges to find acceptance in this small town with his husband and daughter. Although they face some discrimination, they eventually grow as a family and become a part of the greater community. Nevertheless, once Jack’s husband and daughter begin experiencing flu-like symptoms that seem to infect other members of the community, things change for Jack and the town of Caverton. Jack’s story is told through flashbacks, where we see the past through colorful and sunny panels that contrast with a kind of harsh, dark and bloody panels of today. Jack, seemingly immune from the virus that transforms residents into zombies, has decided to take care of the infected and feeds them to ensure that they no longer attack. Furthermore, as the resident zombies are fed, their muscle memory allows them to maintain their previous lives, following a bland routine of behaviors and actions that they carried out during their lives. This creates a kind of groundhog’s day like scenario where Jack lives both in the past and the present. His memories of the past, when his husband and daughter were among the living are intercut with the present. Although his family and neighbors have no language and can only communicate through grunts and guttural noises, Jack still provides for them, ensuring a level of dignity and humanity that others might find strange or even problematic.
One such group of survivors does encounter Jack’s family, initially killing Jack’s zombie mailman who meets with him on a regular basis. Sensing the threat to his family, Jack proceeds to hide them from this group, although the group wants to not only rescue Jack, but also see what kind of supplies and resources he may have to offer. Harboring a zombie family creates a standoff as Jack wants to maintain his memories and past, and not have an intrusion on his private life. I loved how the horror shifted from the zombies, who are relatively passive as long as Jack feeds them regularly, and the band of survivors, who want to shoot first and ask questions later. To me, those kinds of confrontations in the house in Night of the Living Dead or in the mall in Dawn of the Dead always were just as scary, if not scarier than the zombies themselves. Brombal’s storytelling is excellent, as he makes almost a disorienting use of flashbacks to help us understand the kind of mind state that Jack finds himself in, trying to push aside the grief and maintain some semblance of his life, keeping the town running and ensuring the zombies have a steady diet of flesh. Phillips’ artwork is equally jarring in the contrast between the past and the present. In particular, the depictions of Jack’s zombie daughter, Daisy, are really disturbing in the best way possible. While this isn’t necessarily a fun horror story, it does raise some great questions about survival and about our daily lives and activities in general. In particular, I also felt like it raised questions about nostalgia and the past, and whether we are looking to move ahead or whether we want to reside with a dead, rotting past. The story felt particularly relevant in today’s US political climate as there’s almost a kind of nostalgic infection that’s seemed to grip a part of the population. Although I doubt that this group will read this book, Brombal and Phillips have created a great twist on zombie horror that has everyday relevance. Highly recommended!

Beautiful in so, so many ways. My immense thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for trusting me to read this ARC.

HOLY DUCK! HOLY DUCK! HOLY DUCK!!! (quack quack quack)

This is for fans of the best episode of The Last of Us (you know the one) and The Walking Dead. It’s emotionally draining and so action-packed, you can’t stop reading or look away.

Everything Dead & Dying isn’t a happy story. There is no fairytale ending. Almost everyone in this story is dead or will die, so don’t expect a cure. This is about grief and loss and what the death of everyone you care about would do to you mentally. It hurt to read it and I loved it immensely. If I could cry, I’d be a blubbering mess, because he’s all alone with the zombies of his loved ones. What good he has is taken from him by a group of people looking for resources. And that makes it all the more worse.

I will be recommending this to everyone I speak to. I am crushed and blown away all at once!

Thank you to Image Comics and NetGalley for my gifted eARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and Image Comics for this ARC. All opinions below are my own.

This comic hit me like a truck. I did not expect to agree with a crazy man keeping zombies alive, but be the end of this I most definetly was. It was a heart-breaking and rage inducing story that kept me reading until the very end. There were a lot of nods to the hate he recieved while keeping his dead family alive being similar to what he faced being gay and raising a black child, making it really hit home. This one that will stick with me for a long time.

Eisner and GLAAD-Award nominated writer Tate Brombal and artist Jacob Edgar don't attempt to reinvent the zombie apocalypse with Everything Dead & Dying, and that simple fact works in its favor. Leaving out why and when the world ended, this series zeroes in on a smaller sliver of the painful world left behind. It's familiar territory, but a more intimate and harder hitting zombie story that stands out from the crowd.

Instead of getting bogged down in how the world ended or where the plague came from, the comic zeroes in on something much smaller and more painful: the people left behind. Tate Brombal tells a tight, focused story about one family in one moment, letting the emotional weight do the heavy lifting.

Jack Chandler is the sole survivor of the zombie apocalypse in his rural farming community, but rather than eliminate them, he has chosen to continue living alongside the undead — including the husband and adopted daughter he fought so hard to have. But when his town is discovered by outsiders, Jack suddenly becomes the one thing standing in the way of his family and those who hope to kill them for good.

I am a sucker for any sort of zombie story in comic, movie, tv, or book format. It doesn't really matter. Wether its the likes of Night of the Living Dead, The Last of Us, or The Walking Dead, I am game. So when you add in the likes of Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips to the mix, Everything Dead & Dying was a must read.

As a huge The Walking Dead fan, I have been searching for that comic story to fill my the void left by the series ending with issue 193 in 2019. Everything Dead & Dying scratches that itch and while TWD will always sit high up for me, what this series does is step up certain spots and zooms way in on a particular story thread which makes it excel.

Everything Dead & Dying is not a groundbreaking comic, but what it does do is give us a short story in a small portion of the post apocalyptic world. Not focusing on the why and where this plague took over, but the human aspect of it all. Brombal purposely focuses on this specific family in this short period of time. This allows for less distractions and puts this story in the forefront.

Similar to some other stories, but still setting itself apart, is the fact that during a zombie apocalypse it's the humans who are the real monsters. This happens both in the past in present of this story, where never wait for tomorrow to show your love for someone when you can today.

What makes this book standout from the zombie horde is the beautifully horrific and disturbing illustrations from Phillips. But it's not just those visualizations, it's the way they go back-and-forth between a more serine past and the bleak and unsettling present.

Everything Dead & Dying is a dark, disturbing, and unsettling slice of the zombie apocalypse. Tate Brombal creates a story that is touching while also extremely sad, while Jacob Phillips beautifully illustrates a world after the fall. Everything Dead & Dying is a well crafted zombie tale in a well-worn path of zombie stories.

Thank you to Image Comics and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in advance in exchange for an honest review.

Everything Dead & Dying is outstanding. The story Tate Brombal wrote is both beautiful and heart wrenching, and the gritty art from Jacob Phillips matches the tone perfectly. I loved the way Pip Martin's colors changed drastically between Jack's memories and present day, and Aditya Bidikar's lettering drove home the intent behind each character's words.

Jack's story hit me pretty hard. The format of bouncing between his memories of different scenes playing out versus the current undead forms of his family and neighbors really drove home the sadness I felt for this man. He struggled with others' ignorance his entire life, but he was still able to carve out a pocket of happiness and love with his husband and adopted daughter. When the sickness came through and took his family and the town, he found contentment in routine for twelve (12!!) years without interruption. I cannot imagine living through that routine day in and day out, even after the end of the world as we knew it, only to have it ripped away by a group of (mostly) well-meaning survivors.

Absolutely devastating read, will be recommending to everyone who I think needs a good cry. The story and art style were both unique and beautiful, and I felt really strongly for everything he went through, even in such a short time

This comic hit me right in the feels. Heart wrenching and full of love while dealing and living with zombies. Zombies can feel overplayed a lot these days but this was a fresher spin on the undead. I loved bouncing back and forth between memories and current – made me feel so connected. The illustrations were fantastic and easy to delineate what was going on.