The final issue of Raise the Dead II arrives in shops worldwide this week and even if we hadn’t plotted the series ourselves we’d genuinely be recommending it. Writer Mike Raicht and artist Guiu Vilanova have done a fantastic job bringing Alfredo Bay (a joint homage to Hitchcock and Carpenter, in case you hadn’t got that) and the rest of the zombie infested world to life. We really couldn’t have hoped for a better team on the book and we’re eternally grateful to them both for all their hard work.
Our original idea for RTDII was that, where the first series was set in a kind of Peter Jackson/Sam Raimi/Dan O’Bannon zombie world, the follow up would be darker and more bleak — if series one was our Dawn then two is definitley our Day. We didn’t want to just be nasty for nasty’s sake however; we wanted RTDII to have a (still beating) heart too and Mike and Guiu have really pulled that off.
If you haven’t picked the series up already then you really, really should and if you don’t cry reading the final issue then chances are you’re already a zombie yourself.
BEWARE SPOILERS FOLLOW!