| iZOMBIE | |
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Cover page of #1 |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publication date | 2010–present |
| Number of issues | 20 (as of December 2011) |
| Main character(s) | Gwen Dylan, Ellie, Scott |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Roberson |
| Artist(s) | Michael Allred |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
| Colourist(s) | Laura Allred |
| Creator(s) | Roberson & Allred |
| Editor(s) | Shelly Bond |
| Collected editions | |
| Dead to the World | ISBN 1401229654 |
iZOMBIE[1] is a comic book series created by writer Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2010. The series deals with Gwen Dylan, a revenant gravedigger in Eugene, Oregon and her friends Ellie, a 1960s ghost, and Scott, a wereterrier.
Gwen can pass for a regular girl, but she needs to eat a brain once a month to keep from losing her memories and intelligence. As a gravedigger she has plenty of access to recently deceased people; when she consumes their brains she "inherits" part of the deceased's thoughts.
The "monsters" in iZOMBIE are explained via the concepts of over- and undersoul. The oversoul (as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Oversoul) is "seated in the brain, contains the thoughts, memories, and and personality"[2], while the undersoul (as in Michael McClure's poem Dark Brown) is "seated in the heart, contains the appetites, emotions and fears"[2]. Ghosts are thus bodiless oversouls; poltergeists, bodiless undersouls; vampires bodies without undersouls (thirsting for emotions); and zombies, bodies without oversouls. Revenants, like Gwen, are unique in that they possess both oversouls and undersouls. Souls can also "infect" the living, which accounts for the possessed and werewolves and the like[3].
The characters of iZombie first appeared in a short story in the first House of Mystery Halloween Annual (2009). An iZombie story was also included in the second House of Mystery Halloween Annual (2010).
Contents |
| # | Title | ISBN | Release date | Collected material |
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| 1 | Dead to the World | ISBN 1401229654 | March 22, 2011 | iZOMBIE #1–5, a story from House of Mystery Halloween Annual #1 and about 11 additional sketches and covers |
| 2 | uVampire | ISBN 1401232965 | September 7, 2011 | iZOMBIE #6–12 and a story from House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2 |
| 3 | Six Feet Under & Rising | ISBN 1401233708 | February, 2012 | iZOMBIE #13–17 |