The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, by Max Brooks

[Omphalos]

Those of you who have spent any time reading these review pages should know by now that there is really one thing that I will seek out with more fevor than SF: Zombie tales. To put it bluntly, I LOVE zombie stories, and the best one that I have ever found is Max Brooks' World War Z. So it was a feeling of gleeful shock that washed over me when in the Seattle/Tacoma airport that I stumbled upon Brook's newest work, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. The Zombie Survival Guide was Brooks' first published work; a tounge-in-cheek survival guide for when the zombie hordes rise from their graves and try to lunch on one's brains. The Recorded Attacks volume is an illustrated series of twelve vignettes about various zombie attacks that have occured in the past. When I saw it sitting on the shelf I did not even bother to open it. I was a little put back when the cashier told me I had to pay her $18 for the thing, but I figured "what the hell? It's Brooks! It can't be bad!" How wrong I was...Please click here, or on the book cover above, to be taken to the complete review..

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

There's a set of 'recorded attacks' in THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, if I remember correctly. Are these the same, treated differently or altogether new?

 

[Omphalos]

Some of them are edited versions of the ones in the back of that book, but I think some of them are new (could be wrong about that though). For example, the attack in 60,000 B.C. appears as the first in both, but the one in the graphic novel has less then 100 words in blurb boxes. The one in the original book is several paragraphs long.