I take a look at “George Romero’s Empire Of The Dead Act Three” #4 for Through The Shattered Lens website.
Do those title-page recaps that Marvel runs on the first page of all their books these days bug you? I have to admit that they usually work my nerves and that I see them as a less-than-clever way to shave a page off the actual story and art in any given issue while still enabling the publisher to cynically claim that their books offer “21 pages of editorial content.” In the case of George Romero’s Empire Of The Dead, however, I’ll make an exception, for one simple reason : as we all know, Romero uses his zombie tales as allegory for socio-political commentary here in the “real world” (think of Night Of The Living Dead‘s cautionary messages about racism and prejudice, Dawn Of The Dead‘s bleak examination of rampant consumerism, and Day Of The Dead‘s gleeful deconstruction of Cold War paranoia), and the intro page that’s…
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need to catch up on this. thanks for the reminder man!
One more issue to go!
ok! I will gather the issues I have and get started asap 🙂
Not sure if you’ve gotten into the third act or not, but if you haven’t, at this point you might just want to trade-wait it.
Yeah, I may do that instead. Good advice.
Anything to save a buck!