The Extinction Parade, Volume 1

'The Extinction Parade, Volume 1' by Max Brooks has a big name behind it, but it never really made me care about the overly vain main characters.

When zombie outbreaks start happening, the subdead (zombies) start eating the undead's (vampires) food supply. At first this is a hoot for the vampires because the zombies completely ignore them as a food source and they can roam freely. Eventually, the humans start becoming scarcer and this becomes a problem. Or I assume it will because the promo copy I got only included the first half of the graphic novel (which collects issues 1-5 of the series), but I ran out of interest before I ran out of pages. Who am I supposed to feel empathy for? The zombies are mindless hordes of eating machines. The vampires are hyperviolent and act like spoiled rich kids. The humans are mostly background characters to be eaten or drained or whatever. Maybe the second half would make me care a bit more or future issues will.

I loved World War Z by Max Brooks because of the sympathetic and all too human characters in it. That is lacking here. The art also felt a little uneven to me. There were pages I liked, then sometimes the characters seemed overly gangly. I felt disappointed.

I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.