In a small town of Wisconsin in the middle of nowhere the dead people started coming back - not as zombies, but as seemingly normal people. Obviously this creates a nationwide problem: the town is quarantined until the medics are sure the phenomenon is not contagious, the researchers rush in to study it, the pilgrims from all over the world try to enter the town for different reasons. The moment everything calmed down somewhat, things started to get weird - weird to the point where people who fl...

OCTOBER COUNTRY 2013This is a re-read for me, in preparation of hitting up Volume 2, and I gotta say, I'm still excited about what this series has to offer. It's a claustrophobic tale set in a quarantined Midwestern town that has recently fallen prey to a rash of re-animations. The dead are coming back to life, but not in the way you think, or with the same dramatic gore and apocalyptic consequences we have come to expect from the walking dead. This isn't a traditional zombie tale. First and for...

I couldn't find this anywhere so I had to order it, and I only ordered volume 1, for obvious reasons, to be sure I liked it first before ordering all 8 volumes. And I not only liked it, but I had a dream about it last night. Like literally I dreamt the entire storyline. It was insane, and sorta awesome, and definitely nightmarish but now that I'm awake it's more cool than anything. I can recall in my head perfectly the images and setting. Okay but anyway, aside from that, I dug this graphic nove...

Revival is a stunning, splash in the bloodbath world of horror comics! I need to start with the cover. This cover made one hell of a first impression! The haunting, dark look with a young woman wielding a sickle made me do a double take! She strolled her way into my dark, dark imagination and wonder. There was no way this book wasn’t coming home with me. Now on to the guts… :DOne day in a small Wisconsin town the dead came back to life. Twenty three people once dead are now back with their famil...

I can't believe I haven't reviewed this comic here on goodreads yet, or at the very least marked it as "read" and given it a 5-star rating.This is an amazing comic series, folks. And I'm not just saying that because it's set here in beautiful central Wisconsin, in the town of Wausau, about 50 miles north of where I live.It's a delightful story, full of mystery. It's set in the real world, with a tinge of the the supernatural. It's described as a "Rural Noir" on the cover. I'm not sure what that

yeah, like i am going to be able to write a review that says anything my godparents of zombie-intelligentsia, mike and ceridwen, haven't already said in their reviews.but a book read is a book that needs to be reviewed, so i will add my tiny mew to their roars. because this is good stuff. and even if you are "over" the whole "zombie thing," you can pretty much shusshify, because this is one of those "revitalizations of the genre" situations that twists the zombie mythos into something way more e...

I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this fresh(ish) take on reanimating the dead.Not zombies! Just, well, one minute some of the members of this small town are dead, the next...not so much.Yay! Right?Eh...maybe. Because some of the revived are starting to act strangely. This is where Wisconson police officer, Dana Cypress, comes in. She's been put in charge of keeping tabs on (and keeping the peace with!) the revivers, because tensions are high since the event happened and CDC quarantined their

I really wanted this book when I read about it and got to see a few pictures. After reading it I'm sort of confused about some stuff. But I really enjoyed it. So, this little town in Wisconsin all of the sudden has people rising from the dead. Some of them are all like, "where am I?" Others seem okay and then you get them home and they go all crazy ape on you! Then you have these demon or person white thing wandering around the forests spouting out names and trying to talk. I really want to know...

2022 buddy (re)read with NataliyaIt pains me a little, but I have to downgrade my rating for this one. I have recommended this to several people as a comic book I really enjoyed and I see that pretty much all of my friends gave it high ratings. But for some reason it didn't work as well for me this time.It could be that we recently binge-read Saga, very likely the gold standard in all of comics, or that we got distracted by biathlon, tennis reminiscing and spilled pizza. But this was a very disj...

I picked up this first volume of Revival because I'm generally interested in the horror genre, and because the series was listed by Comic Book Resources as one of the year's best in 2012 and 2013. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it as much.While I generally appreciated the attempt to breathe new life into the old zombie sub-genre, my main problem was that the characters never really came to life for me. We are told, for example, that protagonist Dana "became a cop just to get [her dad's] approval"...

This has gotten some stellar reviews here on Goodreads and for the life of me I can’t see why. It bills itself as a rural noir, but I think this is a book where the author just throws ideas and characters into a huge graphic novel maw to see what gets hurled (in a vomit-y kind of way) back - police procedural, mystery, drama, horror, supernatural, and sure, okay, noir.The basic premise is this: rural town in Wisconsin has about two dozen people who have suddenly come back to life, the town is be...

Supernatural horror in rural Wisconsin? Yes please. This was great! Small town drama, good characterization, graphic violence, fantastic artwork, and a fairly unique take on the horror genre. I'm surprised by comparisons to Walking Dead because it's nothing like that or most zombie stories. Even the word "zombie" doesn't do it justice. People die and then reanimate, sure, but many don't look dead, most are conscious, and they all have regenerative healing. Sound like Walking Dead? Nope! I also

What if a group of people returned from the dead in a rural Wisconsin town? They're not zombies. Most seem perfectly fine. Some go a little crazy at times. Why did only these people return? Is it a phenomenon that will spread? The government wants answers so the town is cordoned off and the CDC is sent in. Our main character, Dana Cypress, is a deputy assigned to team up with the CDC to find out what's going on. Seeley and Norton have created a Fargoesque town full of mystery and horror. It comp...

This wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, either. The concept was good. There were some storytelling issues. I wish there was less characters because most of my confusion stemmed from the fact that there was too many characters. Some of these characters weren't even too important. I might post a more coherent review for this soon - or when I get the time.

Well, my one and only foray into comics-land by the way of brilliant Saga has set my expectations very high. And that’s going to be a problem, I see.This is a dead revival story but not a zombie story. In a small Wisconsin town a few dead came back, pretty much acting like they had in life (well, minus one bloodthirstily murderous octogenarian). And of course the government decides to quarantine the town and observe the happenings, while inside the perimeter everything goes on as usual minus an

Really cool concept and I have no clue where the author is going with this story. Definitely intrigued, and will possibly have nightmares.

This is a zombie comic, sort of. It is not The Walking Dead, a wonderful comic and TV-series detailing the lives of survivors of a zombie apocalypse, who are constantly being hunted by the zombies and other humans alike. This series focuses on a small town, where certain people have returned to life. They have kept their memories, and have returned to their normal lives, they are just as functioning as any other humans. But no one truly knows what is going on, some declare it as a sign of the Ra...

In a small town in rural Wisconsin, the dead are coming back to life! But these aren’t your regular rotting, shuffling, braaaains-eatin’ zombies, these are ordinary people, walking around with their memories of life, somewhat shocked at having experienced death and lived to tell about it! Officer Dana Cypress and the rest of her small police force, headed up by her stern father, cordon off the town and wait to discover what it all means – why won’t the dead stay dead? I liked the premise a lot a...

3.5 stars.Interesting, but not enough to keep me interested. Some good artwork, but nothing stood out enough that was appealing enough to make me continue reading when there are better reads out there.

The art in this is absolutely amazing!!!!The story is so intriguing, and I really love the personality of all the characters. This is a small town but its a whole world of troubles. Definitely continuing on with this graphic series :D