Old School Book Report

Ronnie Anderson
Mrs. Beichner
Making Graphic Novels
24 April 2009
Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness
Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness begins with the main character, Ash, being thrown into the middle of a world that he has never been to before. While walking along he sees two super heroes get into a fight, and he realizes that he is not in just any kind of universe. Before long, Ash begins to see some of the super heroes turn into zombies for almost no apparent reason. These zombies have a hunger for the brains and flesh of humans and begin to eat other heroes. This continues for some time and until Ash realizes that Lord Doom and his army of darkness is behind all of this. After several chapters of fighting and flesh eating and what not, Ash enters a portal and leaves the universe once and for all, only to find him in a werewolf zombie universe. Ooh boy… Can you say sequel?
The main characters in my graphic novel were really only Ash and Lord Doom. Every other character either gets eaten or only mildly affects the plot. Spiderman is almost a main character in the beginning of the novel, but then gets transformed into a zombie. The main theme of the novel was purely good always triumphs over evil. Ash was some how always able to save himself even when there should have been like no way for him to survive. Lets be honest, if like every Marvel super hero ever made was transformed into a zombie and was trying to eat you, I’m willing to say that you would have a hard time surviving, but then again that is why Ash is Ash and Ronnie is Ronnie. No matter what problem Ash was faced with, he was able to overcome it and prevail. Lord Doom and his army of darkness caused the main conflict in this novel. The conflict itself was essentially that all of the people that had normally been protecting the town were now trying to eat all of the people that they had tried to save. Overall this was a pretty unoriginal graphic novel, as in the themes and conflicts were almost like cliché. My favorite part of the novel was probably the scene with the duck. This somewhat creepy little duck with funky eyes turns out to be a zombie and eats some people, and then Ash kicks his butt. Its pretty funny and I guess it was probably my favorite part. I guess I didn’t really like this graphic novel; maybe I was just a little let down because of how much I loved the Evil Dead movies. I guess the people that should probably read this book would have to be hard-core fans of either marvel, or the evil dead trilogy, although I believe that both groups of fans would be slightly disappointed. I feel as though anybody that really likes graphic novels would also probably appreciate this novel too.
There is nothing distinctly wrong or great about this graphic novel. It was pretty good and overall a great place to start. I would like my next book to be much more in depth and maybe actually have a plot and not just be part of some series. But again, I am in no ways upset by this novel, I just prefer like movies about this sort of thing or books with more words then pictures. I suppose I learned that graphic novels are not exactly my things.