Reviews

DCeased: Virus Zombie by Tom Taylor

josemclr's review against another edition

4.0

Ok, con esto confirmo que no hay pierde cuando Tom Taylor escribe Elseworlds. Sabe muy bien como manipular el canon ya establecido y dirigirlo por caminos inexplorados, como se pudo ver con Injustice. En DCeased sucede lo mismo pero el hecho de haber tomado un tema tan desarrollado (por no decir explotado) en la cultura popular, como es el de los Zombies, y traducirlo al universo de DC promete y cumple en la mayoría de los aspectos. Hay mucha acción pero también emotividad e incluso algunos momentos de donaire que ayudan a que el lector respire de vez en cuando. Además, me llamó mucho la atención que usara los plot twists al favor de la historia sin hacerlos ver artificiales o forzados. Definitivamente leeré los spin-offs.

kadu_1516's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

salexander7341's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

mrtofu's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

delaguila19's review against another edition

3.0

This is not just any virus, although it has characteristics similar to zombies, which are generally of unknown origin. This virus is an anti-life equation that Darkseid so wanted to find, and obviously due to the nature of the equation it is uncontrollable and in a somewhat forced way it is spread by the only DC character who has the ability to connect with any electronic device. Below is a series of events where several characters die who initially could have stopped the spread but are conveniently discarded for the plot but quickly and elegantly and since it is the first of five story arcs I am obviously going to continue reading them. .

hakimbriki's review against another edition

3.0

Entertaining... but déjà vu. Blackest Night, Marvel Zombies, Stephen King’s Cell...etc. Although the premise here is different and inventive, the story was, to some extent, predictable.

vernip's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

How does that old proverb go?
If it looks like a duck,
quacks like a duck,
walks like a duck,
It's obviously a goose.
...
I mean, you've got wild, disfigured&shambling, undead people gunning for human flesh, and they make a point to say that they are NOT zombies? Call em "extensions of the Anti-Life Equation spread by a techno-organic virus" all you want, these unholy MarthaFockers are for all intents & purposes, ZOMBIES!

But yeah, very interesting to see all the counter measures the heroes (and some villains) of the DC verse do to try and staunch the plague of the undead. And when each contingency fails, thankfully the DC version of space has many hospitable planets so they could very well just pick up and move elsewhere (maybe Mogo would HAVE to learn to socialize? Hahaha).
Also, chalk one up for relatively obscure characters showing up for one-shot street cred. Having only seen the Legends of Tomorrow version of Waverider (both as ship & lady), it's fascinating to see the canon version as...a knockoff Firestorm?
Great read even if the zombie genre is itself the walking dead. 

hermoonreads's review against another edition

4.0

I loooved this. I'm always a sucker for a zombie apocalypse type of story. It was great to see the powers of both the hero's and the infected come into play, especially towards the lasy few issues.

Harley and Ivy were chefs kiss, and Oliver's snark had me smiling every single issue I swear

talon1010's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

Pretty fun, well paced. Relied on extant canon, but not so much that I was lost

intrepidvoyager's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0