I never had any intention to pick this up when I original heard about, but then I saw that it was drawn by Mike Allred. If you don’t know who Mike Allred is, shame on you.

izombie is the story of Gwen, a gravedigger with a few interesting twists, in a town with a good couple of turns. Her best friend is a 60’s mod ghost, a were-terrier has a massive crush on her, and vampires run a paintball course. Oh.. and Gwen herself is a zombie. She needs to feed on a human once a month not to turn into a mindless zombie, but it does come with a price, after eating the brain of the recently deceased, she is entrusted with helping out the person achieve a peaceful slumber after death.

I am assuming it is different for each brain, we aren’t told but in issue 1, she must get vengeance for a wrongful death.

Yeah, this book is messed up, but it is written in such a way that it feels pretty organic and of course, having Allred on art helps out so damn much. He could draw poop throwing poop at other poop and I would still enjoy it as much.

One of the great things about this first issue is that its only a buck, so even if you hated it, you were only out a buck. I really recommend people go and check it out, its different and with both Marvel and DC doing crossover madness right now, izombie is a rose in a field in shit.