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Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies

While I wouldn't go so far as to name myself a serious comic collector by any stretch of the imagination, I have a growing stack of TPBs and a couple hundred random single issues that make up a few series. In general my collection is quite varied, from Starship troopers to some early Captain America, but throughout it there is one common theme that's the most prevalent; Zombies. Be it my 13 TPBs of the Walking Dead, my collection of one-offs or my growing assembly of Army of Darkness, they all feature the lovable undead and the periodic destroying of their brains.

With that in mind, you can understand why I jumped at the chance to review one of the newer Zombie related graphic novels to hit our high street shelves; Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies.

Penned by Ian Edgington (Aliens, Predator, Terminator) with Art by David Fabbri (Starship Troopers, Star Wars) this TPB collects the original 6 issues of this first edition of Victorian Undead, where Sherlock Holmes and his side kick Dr Watson come face to face with an outbreak of zombies in late 19th century London.

I won't spoil any of the big reveals in the book, but I will be giving away some minor details in the following paragraphs, so please if you want to wait to read it to discover all the goings on, let me just say here that this is a pretty good read. I would recommend it.

For those that don't mind a bit of beans spilling, here's the basic premise for the story. In the first few pages we are treated to a prologue of a large, green comment flashing across the sky 40 years before Homles and watson investigate it. Unfortunately for the local residents at the time, this coment's disintegration in our upper atmosphere caused the release of some sort of evil, stuff, though we're never privy to what this might actually have been. It in turns poisons a local water supply, turning residents into the undead.