The only thing the show kept from the source material was the idea of a zombie coming back to "life" and keeping the memories of the people she ate. Everything else is different, but not bad. This story is faster paced and involves many more characters and subplots. Gwen may be solving mysteries and resolving the dead's unfinished business in this comic but you seldom ever get to see the mystery solving. Most of the time she is just trying to figure out her past and living day to day with her gh...

I first heard of iZombie through the TV show, I wanted to see where it all started so I got the comics. I wasn't disappointed. There are different characters to enjoy and a new story to but also seems very familiar to if you've seen the show.

For those of you who watch the show, this is not like the show. She does not work in a morgue and there is no Ravi (sad face). I am sure my experience with the show and how much I love that has played a part in my decision for a 3.5 star (but I marked it 4).This is still a really good story and I loved reading it and admiring all of the art work. Granted, the story is weird as F**K, but still really good. I am just starting to dip my toe into the graphic novel world and it seems that so far, the...

3.8Loved this but I wasn't too crazy about the end, still a very good story with lots of little comic book, 70's cartoons and other geek pop culture references.

I reviewed the volume collecting the first few issues of this series a few years ago, and I remember leaning heavily on the Buffy comparisons. Then they went and made it into an ensemble TV show, which I like quite a lot, but now that I've read the whole thing, I rather regret the Buffy comparison. It's nothing like Buffy at all. It doesn't even engage that much with its own premise of zombie-girl-detective, it's way more about Gwen trying to come to terms with her condition and make friends and...

Very fun read. Even better than the TV series.

I loved this! I grabbed this after watching about three episodes of the tv series. The comic and show don’t have a lot in common, and they both stand out on their own. Gwen is really cool, down to earth for a zombie. I liked her and her friends, would have enjoyed a spin-off or another volume.

After devouring the entirety of the iZombie tv show, I thought it would be a good idea to check out the series which the show was based on. If that's your reasoning for reading this too, you'll probably be as surprised as I was to find out that there's really very little similarity between the two. That's not to say this isn't worth reading, however.Collecting the entire 28 issue run, plus two short stories, an artist's gallery and an afterword from writer Chris Roberson (who also mentions the T...

Very enjoyable read. Many more characters than the TV series. Interesting storylines and art. Recommended.

(Zero spoiler review) 1.5/5What a sad state of affairs this book is. I went into this relatively blind. Seeing how this was adapted into a CW show, I was rightly sceptical. The idea sounded promising, so I checked out the first few pages online to see if it gelled before purchasing. The Michael Allred art impressed out of the gate (more on that later) and the prose and narrative seemed acceptable, so given that it was cheap at the time, I picked it up. An issue or two in, and whilst not being an...

This was so much fun. I loved the CW series, but this, the source material was even better. Much different, but better. Sometimes film and tv just can't do justice to the comic.. The pacing, the art , everything. If you KNOW how to read comics, you know what I mean. Not being pretentious, it's just that comic book reading takes a certain rhythm to get used to. Most people think it's juvenile (it is) but it's also brilliant. And this finite series is a fine example of the art form and how it can

It’s good. It’s definitely not the show you might have seen - which is also really good. If you are expecting the show in comic book form, stop now. Just stop. This is 100% completely different. My complaint is that while I understand the need to throw in a ghost or were-terrier for fun or as a sidekick, I feel like everything supernatural was thrown in to advance the story line, and that did frustrate me. Even a big Lovecraftian creature coming through the sky. But still a good read.

Overall, the series of I Zombie comics that comprise this tome seems rather disjointed. It feels very much, in reading each of the issues, that there is a distinct lack of continuity. While this could (and probably does) stem from the episodic nature of individual comics, it does affect the reader's interpretation of the larger narrative. As someone who had not read any of the comics prior to their collection in this omnibus, the feel of the narrative did get in the way of enjoying the issues as...

Lots of fun, way different from the TV show, but that is what made it so readable.

This is -nothing- like the iZombie show on the CW, and I'm oddly ok with it. While there are some similarities between Gwen and Liv, the comics are more fantastical. Besides zombies, the series introduces mummies, ghosts, wereterriers, Frankenstein-type monsters (and a zombie hybrid), dead Presidents, vampires, monster hunters, and an all-powerful space god being. They all create this world of mystical beings that coexist (not always happily) in "our" world.The wit and tone of the TV series is h...

I watch the show but this is so different from the show but I still love it! It is very quirky, cool, and sarcastic. It is is also very meta in regards to talking about zombies, ghosts and werewolves. The artwork is amazing and throughout reading it reminded me of Buffy the Vampire slayer show in respect to its humor and the main character Gwen. The ending did seem a bit rushed and was probably the only downside of the series.

A wonderful read! Very different from the TV show and, in my opinion, much better. Though at some points a bit disjointed, it needs to be read like there are several miniseries that all wind together at the end. Overall great series! A must read for zombie lovers and lovers of everything supernatural alike.

After dying mysteriously, Gwen Dylan is a dead girl who must eat a brain once a month to avoid madness. But an evil lurks beneath her city that could destroy the world...The iZombie Omnibus collects iZombie 1-28 plus short stories from House of Mystery Annual 1 and 2.I got this as part of Amazon's 3 for 2 deal a couple weeks ago. It's been on my radar for years but I never picked it up. I went into this as cold as possibly, only knowing Gwen was a zombie. I was banking on Allred and Roberson's p...

The story is three stars, the artwork is four stars for me.I wasn't in love with the story, and so I found myself putting it down many times over the course of reading it. (It's all 28 issues in one volume, so it's a fair commitment to read the whole thing even though it is a comic series.) I felt like the characters weren't really fully developed, and there were entire storylines that I felt were pretty pointless (anything to do with the vampires, Galatea and her shenanigans). I also didn't lov...

Good book. I liked the start of the run when it’s a bit more slice of life. Towards the middle of the story it starts getting a bit more out there with some world-ending-Lovecraftian-deity strangeness and it lost my interest a bit. The characters are enjoyable and Allred’s art is fantastic as usual (if you’re a fan of his). If the TV show brought you here, be warned it’s nothing like the series - though enjoyable in its own radical flavor. Curious how it holds up for me on a re-read.