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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Since reading Pride & Prejudice in high school, Elizabeth Bennet has been my favorite heroine of my literary world. I don’t think many of you would disagree if I said she might be the favorite of yours as well. She’s beautiful, witty, independent, sensible, and deadly with a katana. Okay, that last attribute adding to Lizzy’s glowing character should be accredited to Seth Grahame-Smith, the co-author of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies , “the classic regency romance – now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” In P & P & Z , it’s 19th Century England and the country is dealing with the nuisance of the undead as well as all the inconveniences they can bring with them, i.e. lost messages due to zombie interference/the messenger being eaten, the risk of zombie attacks during those leisurely walks, etc. The Bennet family lives in the countryside where Mr. Bennet focuses on training his five daughters in martial arts and zombie-slaying techniques. As a result his daughters becom...

Breathers: a zombie's lament by S.G. Browne

breather : n. one among the living with the ability to breathe; one who is alive What if your afterlife happens to be living among the living? Depending on your viewpoint, when that afterlife is becoming a zombie, that may not sound too horrible…you’d think. S.G. Browne’s debut novel, Breathers: a zombie’s lament , gives us one possibility. Join Andy as he tries to cope and navigate thru his newly acquired lifestyle. He used to be alive with a wife and daughter until one sleepy night a bad turn that leads to a 20-foot launch into a Redwood tree trunk ends that life, only to give him a new one he isn’t sure what to make of, along with ruptured vocal cords and a limp. Two days after he’s reanimated, he’s picked up by the SPCA, who “is working to save more of us [zombies] by soliciting zombie foster homes” among their attempts. His parents begrudgingly come to claim him two days later. His new life is filled with “happy” days at home with his parents who, wished he would’ve stayed dead, a...

Fables created by Bill Willingham

Remember when you were younger and you were introduced to a cast of characters filled with princes and princesses, witches, talking animals and other magical creatures in those fantastical fairy tales? And I don’t mean Disney. I mean something more like The Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson. If you were anything like me, you fell in love with these characters that led you into a world of action, romance, violence, and comedy; where anything was possible, good always triumphed over evil, and there was always a happy ending. And then we got older and wiser and realized that we wouldn’t be visiting that fairy world for a very long time, if ever again. Or would we? What happened to those characters we fell in love with so long ago? In the graphic novel, Fables , Bill Willingham introduces the cast to us again in a brand new story where they visit our world…indefinitely...and not by choice. They’ve been driven from their homelands by an anonymous tyrant they only know as, ‘ The Adve...

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