written by Marc Guggenheim
illustrated by Dave Dumeer and Douglas Dabbs

Countless authors have attempted to illustrate what would happen after the world is wracked with an apocalypse of some sort, or the life that we know undergoes a radical shift of paradigms and conveniences. I’m a big fan of the easiest comparisons here, those being Y : The Last Man and The Walking Dead (and a little bit of Vonnegut), so I’m always interested to see a new interpretation of how we’re all going to slowly waste away when the chips are down. I have read The Zombie Survival Guide, after all.
 
The title of the collection doesn’t refer to any kind of zombie happenings, even if the toothy monster on the cover implies otherwise. The idea of “resurrection” refers to the slow rebirth of humanity after a period of 10 years in which alien destruction and experimentation have ravaged the landscape and population of Earth. However, through the course of this collection (which covers the first six issues of the series, and a bonus Annual issue), humanity seems to be more concerned with shooting each other than doing anything noble or grand.
 
While the beginning of the book makes a strong showing for an emotional tale of the lone survivors trying to make sense of everything, it quickly degrades into a mess of incomprehensible politics that are very likely (and inconveniently) explained by events that happen after this collection ends.
 
I like this book, but not because it feels exceptionally compelling. The art is very awkward and inconsistent, and it’s hard to care about any given character, if you can even tell them apart visually. I do, however, feel that this is worth reading because it’s very obviously going somewhere very, very interesting—which is only revealed in the very last page of the collection’s main story. The Annual issue, which is also included here, runs on a tangent to the main plot but is exceptionally more interesting.
 
It’s also worth noting that this series has undergone an official reboot since the events of these issues, so while these set a foundation for something, later collections may prove to be a more solid addition to your collection also.
 
There’s a lot of guns and a lot of blood, a few heads crushed with large rocks, as well as profanity, which is selectively @#*&^-ed out.
 
Ultimately, I am compelled enough to want to see where this is all going. I want to see if humanity digs itself out of their own selfish squabbles to really create a new society, or if the aliens decide to come back, or what they were doing there in the first place. It’s a premise with a ton of potential that I hope the creative team can live up to.

-- Collin David

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