Olivia Vieweg

A moody tale of a zombie apocalypse featuring two girls on a desperate road trip from one safe haven in the German city of Weimar to another in Jena about 12 miles away. It's fairly typical stuff, with each learning about the other and herself but also about the zombies they dodge and cross paths with. The characters are engaging and the natures of the zombies are interesting if a bit vague and confusing at times.

There's a movie version I'm thinking I might check out sometime. There's also another, shorter version of this graphic novel and I wonder if it might be better without all the padding added for the film.

FOR REFERENCE:

This is an English translation of the German graphic novel Endziet, but it needs to be noted that there are two different versions of Endzeit originally published in German. The first version from 2012 is about 75 pages and was originally submitted as Olivia Vieweg's academic thesis. She adapted that graphic novel into a screenplay that became a 2018 film called Endzeit and also known as Ever After. So the second version from 2018 is a 285-page adaptation of the film's screenplay rewritten, redrawn, and eventually translated into English by Vieweg.… (mais)

I was so excited to receive this on Net Galley for free and want to thank them and the publishers for the opportunity to read this wonderful graphic novel. Thank you so much for the ARC!
This is a haunting graphic novel that is told more through the images than the words. The art in this book is beautiful and powerful, I found that once I let go of the words and allowed myself to become more absorbed by the images the more I understood and felt impacted by the story. I love dark graphic novels and this one definitely didn't disappoint. I also loved how the zombie element was meshed with nature. It was really creepy and effective. I feel like zombies are usually seen as all dead and decay in the body but in this graphic novel she had flowers and life growing on her which I found very unique. The tone of the art reminded me a bit of the graphic novel beautiful darkness. Overall a great graphic novel! I highly recommend to anyone who is a fan of darker works of art.… (mais)