This week, it's
Dengue by Rodolfo Santullo and Matias Bergara.
Dengue is
about a detective and a news reporter in Montevideo, years after an
outbreak of some kind of zombie dengue fever drove everyone indoors or
into suits, and it plays as a mystery/government conspiracy tale. I
usually go into these postapocalyptic wasteland stories expecting a kind
of dull cynicysm - not dull as in boring, but dull like blunted and
weary. It's there in
Dengue, but it's playfully witty, almost
like everyone in the story is aware that it's how they're supposed to
behave, but just under the surface they're really having a lot of fun.
Bergara's monsters are perfectly grotesque, but Santullo's writing is
the best part - really sharp, smart, funny in just the right places and
different enough (especially at the end of the story) that what could
have been a standard disease zombie apocalypse and makes it a fun,
worthwhile read.
You can pick up
Dengue at your friendly
local comic shop or online via
Humanoids.com.
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