This isn’t one of your Dungeons & Warcrafts Games, Nerdboy!

With Walking Dead down until February 9, people who still don’t feel entirely swarmed over by zombies have to find their cannibal corpse kicks elsewhere. And while you might not think anything original can be done with the zombie apocalypse, Dynamite’s five-part series, Mocking Dead manages to be a little bit different—and frequently, quite funny. And while the title, art, and genre suggest a certain zombie franchise, this isn’t a direct parody of any one zombie story, but an entertaining comic that draws from the entire genre to tells its own story.

Is it worth the back issues—or the inevitable trade paperback?

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