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Rise #1: Sister's Keeper by Federica Manfredi, Jeff McComsey, Bill Jemas, Kurt Tiede, Michael Coast
crookedtreehouse's review
2.0
Part of the excruciatingly bad Double Take "Night Of The Living Dead" Universe. This isn't the worst of the series, which is a testament to how bad this series really is.
In this volume we meet "the resistance"? A bunch of people with parts of quotes about fear on their shirts. Are they zombi...I'm sorry...ghouls? I think. And is one of the main characters in the book a ghoul? It seems like it but it's not clear.
I don't think a single writer on this series has any sense of pacing, and only the vaguest conception of what plots or characters are. A first grade class of students who were meeting for the first time, and had never seen any sort of pop culture or sci-fi movie could have easily written a better zombie comic than this, though I suppose they wouldn't have tossed former Alabama Governor George Wallace and President LBJ into the mix. Though, if they had, I think they would have at least used Wikipedia to make the Wallace and LBJ interactions more interesting than just mentioning the girth of LBJ's cock.
The brother/sister relationship seems unnecessary to this story. The inclusion of the resistance characters comes out of nowhere and doesn't actually seem to affect the world the writers are supposedly building in any way. The possibility of higher functioning zombies could be interesting in the hands of writers who possess an ounce of talent, but there aren't any talented writers (or artists, it must be stressed...there are some frames that look like poorly photoshopped introduction to MS Paint projects) attached to this awful series. Apart from being used in classes on How Not To Make Successful Comics, I'm not sure there's any reason to read these books.
In this volume we meet "the resistance"? A bunch of people with parts of quotes about fear on their shirts. Are they zombi...I'm sorry...ghouls? I think. And is one of the main characters in the book a ghoul? It seems like it but it's not clear.
I don't think a single writer on this series has any sense of pacing, and only the vaguest conception of what plots or characters are. A first grade class of students who were meeting for the first time, and had never seen any sort of pop culture or sci-fi movie could have easily written a better zombie comic than this, though I suppose they wouldn't have tossed former Alabama Governor George Wallace and President LBJ into the mix. Though, if they had, I think they would have at least used Wikipedia to make the Wallace and LBJ interactions more interesting than just mentioning the girth of LBJ's cock.
The brother/sister relationship seems unnecessary to this story. The inclusion of the resistance characters comes out of nowhere and doesn't actually seem to affect the world the writers are supposedly building in any way. The possibility of higher functioning zombies could be interesting in the hands of writers who possess an ounce of talent, but there aren't any talented writers (or artists, it must be stressed...there are some frames that look like poorly photoshopped introduction to MS Paint projects) attached to this awful series. Apart from being used in classes on How Not To Make Successful Comics, I'm not sure there's any reason to read these books.
meliemelo's review
1.0
Really didn't like the art and the story had nothing original - though I might have thought otherwise if I had seen the movie it's based on (Night of the Living Dead).
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