The Colonized (TP)

author: Chris Ryall

name: Wayne

average rating: 2.64

book published: 2013

rating: 2

read at: 2014/01/02

date added: 2014/01/02

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

The Colonized is a mostly fun story that suffers from too many wacky characters. It takes place in a fairly isolated self-governed town, where one of the town leaders has recently died. When aliens attempt to retrieve a body and create a legion of zombies, they team up with some of the town people to stop what they've started.



Along with the aliens and zombies (including zombie farm animals), there are a group of rogue rednecks out to shoot anything that moves, and a lone ATF agent who stumbles on something that could make his career. With all these characters running around, the result is mayhem, which is good, but it leaves the storyline a bit overpopulated. Overtones of green friendly governments and equal rule are just lost in the rest of the story.



Art by Drew Moss is fun. Zombies, zombie pigs, crazed gun toting rednecks and aliens fill the pages of the story. But too much of a good thing can be too much, and I wanted to like this more than I did.



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 letting me review this graphic novel.





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