The modern Zombie isn't your typical undead. No, they're merely human, still living and breathing, whose craving for flesh is a result of being treated for an old strain of Yellow Fever with medicine called Y-Pak. In Willow, a small southern town, located in humid Florida, these breathing, living flesh-eating humans are about to make their mark.
In writer Brian Buccellato & Jennifer Young's hands, accompanied by artist Matias Bergara's clean and thorough artwork, Cannibal #1 comes across like a less-than-polished comic book version of True Blood. Its characters, consisting of two brothers (Cash and Grady Hansen) with contrasting personalities, a stripper (Jolene) who has captured one of their hearts, and a Sheriff Mays who can't quite "condone" violence against the living Zombies, "legally speaking". When a young boy, working at Hog's River Bar & Grill, is brutally mauled to death by a hungry "cannibal", the small community is instantly thrown into upheaval.
Cannibal may not re-invent the genre of flesh-eating-dead-feasting-on-surviving-living, but what it does successfully is create a time and place worth remembering. Buccellato and Young's characters feel authentic and captivating, while the illustrations by Bergara more than satisfy our eye's craving for notable visual imagery. If nothing else, thanks to this series, the Everglades is now a place where alligators are not the only predators worth fearing.
B+
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