Alexander Peterhans's Reviews > 28 Days Later, Vol. 4: Gangwar

How can you take something like 28 Days Later and write such boring stories with it?

Why are the characters moving through cities at all? That's where you have the biggest chance to encounter infected, that's where most dead bodies will be, and dead bodies mean vermin and disease. You should be barely able to move through the city in a car (although the comic doesn't seem to think so.)

(We still have the thing where we don't know why Selena is even on this journey.. guess it's something to do with her husband..? Why keep that secret from the reader?)

Had a hearty laugh at the writer suddenly remembering that Paul aka Clint is a journalist. Oh shit, better make some notes..!

So here we get the first chance for some real horror, the cage Selena gets put in. And here we also hit the terrible pacing 0f this comic. Her standing in that cage, her starting to hallucinate the people she has lost up til now: this should've been a whole issue. But no, we get a couple of pages, it doesn't work, it's just another thing that happens to our protagonists, and the only thing they can do is react to it, never having any real agency. (Also, why is her hallucination basically a dream? Why aren't her hallucinations mixed with the real situation?)

It's bad, guys.

(Buddy-read with everyone's favourite gangmember, these still suckkkkk)