Anyway Revival, a new series written by Tim Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton (who is awesome by the way), about what happens when a person dies comes back to life, NOT as a zombie but, real, breathing, "human". Back to how they were before they passed on. A great premise for a horror series I totally missed. Again found by chance whilst browsing, with Tim's name on it, and a nice deluxe hard cover release, it wasn't hard not to get it. And I'm so glad i did.
The story moves at a nice pace, cool little subplots that you know are going to be part of a bigger story and drawn masterfully by Mike Norton. Definitely going to be looking for more of his work.
Love the characters Tim has created from sisters Dana and Em, Lester, May and of course Ibrahim. By the way Dana Cypress is probably one of the coolest names ever. After Dana, Ibrahim is my favourite, has some great dialogue and I so hope him and Dana get it together for real, much to the disappointment of Dana's Dad the Sheriff no less!
Trying to confine the "Revival" of the dead within the town of Wasau, dealing with the unusual behaviour of the revivers and trying to understand what the hell is actually happening, Tim has crafted a neat story here which kept me hooked since the opening page. Really interested to see how things progress, especially with Em, who was murdered but now as a reviver appears to be some kind of super heroine. She has some cool action scenes, and I wished Dana, the cop(!), did have the same too.
I loved Tim's Hack/Slash, which I'm still hoping will be re-released in hard cover one day, and Revival has a similar kind of vibe with it's atmosphere, gore, humour and suspense. Mike's art is gorgeous and complements the story so well. The horror is done perfectly and characters emotions come through naturally with the script.
The hard cover is over sized, glued binding, no dust jacket which is no bad thing at all as Jenny Frisons cover looks awesome direct on the hard back cover. Pages lay flat with little or no gutter loss. Usual extras with various pin ups, script, some cool bonus ads from the Revivers, and the highlight for me all of Jenny Frisons AWESOME variant covers.
So looking forward to the next volume out later this year and so glad published in this format, Image strike gold again and I'm really digging their line of stories they pumping out. Awesome and on the shelf it goes!
