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Cannibal, Vol. 1 by Brian Buccellato, Jennifer Young, Matías Bergara

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bbpettry's review

4.0

When choosing a zombie (or vampire or were-person, etc.) genre book the first thing I want to know is how? The lore behind the magic or disease or both must be interesting and have something that resembles an original thought. So, of course the premise of Cannibal is more attractive than most because in this story, the "zombies" are living people - no moaning, no decomposition of brain or body - they just have to continue their lives while also craving human flesh. The messy web of relationships in this town would be worth reading on their own, an impressive trait considering how often interpersonal complexity is forfeited in graphic novels to have more panels for the biting or the fighting. Buccatello has managed to write an arc that is at once romantic, readable, disturbing AND about a zombie apocalypse.