Written by Dan Abnett
Art and Covers by I. N. J. Culbard
The Solicitation
Another vampire/zombie comic? Really, Vertigo? Trust us. This is different.In post-Victorian England, nearly everyone of the upper classes has voluntarily become a vampire to escape the lower classes who are all zombies. Into this simmering cauldron is thrust Chief Inspector George Suttle, a lonely detective who's got the slowest beat in London: investigating murders in a world where everyone is already dead!But when the body of a young aristocrat washes up on the banks of the Thames, Suttle's quest for the truth will take him from the darkest sewers to the gleaming halls of power, and reveal the rotten heart at the center of this strange world.THE NEW DEADWARDIANS is brought to vivid life by fan-favorite writer Dan Abnett (RESURRECTION MAN, LEGION LOST) with art by newcomer I. N. J. Culbard (At The Mountains of Madness).
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The Story
Now this was a little bit entertaining.
Essentially, this is a monster movie mash up set in England. We follow the main character, George Suttle, as his house has a zombie attacking and eating a maid. We then get to meet his English mother, and some of the servants and police that he works with.
Part of the premise of this book is that George, along with others humans not infected with the zombie disease, are all vampires. They became vampires so that they could live and not become like one of the zombie, yet they are all a part of the undead. They do file their teeth and have check ups that monitor if they have had any ravenous feelings to eat humans.
George is a murder investigator, but its hard to investigate murders when pretty much everyone is dead. That is, until a body comes up that is a dead vampire that has no marks of the usual vampire death - beheading, incineration, or impalement of the heart. So how did he die? Well, that the story of the next issue.
All in all, this is a pretty decent story. It has me intrigued, it is playing with vampire and zombie motifs, and its a good ole fashion murder mystery. Color me intrigued and delighted.
The Art
This artist knows how to work and frame pictures and characters just right. Between that and the style of the art, I am enjoying it.
Take a one page telling of how it is simply George walking into the homicide office full of empty desks. No words are spoken at all, but we get a ton of story details and understand a bit more about the character on that lone walk around the office. I enjoyed it very much.
The Cover
If you can't tell a bit of which movie monster characters are involved in this story and where it is set just by looking at this cover, then you deserve to read something else. I think this conveyed everything it needed to about the story from just that one cover. It drew my eye over to it when I was at the comic shop and I picked it up right away.
Grades
Words: 8/10
Pictures: 8/10
Recommend: Hell yea.
Buy Next Issue: Its only an 8 issue series, so unless it begins to falter next month or just takes some crazy, wacky turn, I may just stick with this throughout the entire run.
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