The New Deadwardians is the final comic book in
Vertigo’s cannon of new releases that sprung forth throughout the month of March, and personally I think
Vertigo saved the best for last. The art is crisp, and the plot takes a tried and true plotline and jazzes it up by presenting it as a period piece and essentially as a classic ‘whodunit.’
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. ~
Isaac Asimov
The above quote is the first words that grace the masthead of
The New Deadwardians; it is simple, but it immediately sets the tone for the entire issue. From there forward,
Dan Abnett dives into the main character,
Mr. Suttle, by structuring his prose around a very British style of writing, which when coupled with
I.N.J. Culbard’s attention to Edwardian detail creates a believable and stunning alternate reality. Much of the back-story and lead-ups are fleshed out through
Mr. Suttle’s inner dialogue.
He explains to the audience that he is apart of a group dubbed, “The Young,” which for all intensive purposes are vampires. “The Restless” are a constant threat to “The Young” and those unaffected, because like a yin to their yang the Restless are essentially zombies. They plague the outer cities by constantly trying to crawl back in to wreak havoc and death.
Mr. Suttle lays awake thinking when he hears a blood-curdling scream from downstairs. A zombie has broken into his manor and butchered his housekeeper. Mr. Suttle has his help get the police, while he slays the zombie. His other maid has been bitten by the Restless and she is panicked that she might succumb or die before she is inoculated by “The Cure.” The Cure is her initiation into the land of the Young and acts as the plot device that transforms a human into a vampire, or acts as the repressor for the vampires’ basic, carnal instincts. Most of the vampires (including Mr. Suttle) keep their teeth shaved down and try to resist their tendencies.
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