Chaos Campus 4

Chaos Campus #4
Created, Written & Lettered by B. Alex Thompson
Story Assists by S. Michelle Cox
Illustrated by Michele Buscalferri
Coloured by Robert Reichert & Blake Wilkie
Post-Scripting & Polish by John Ward
Published by Approbation Comics

Under a sharp cover by Quinton Bedwell, issue four of Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls Vs. Zombies shows off a ton of characterization. The three lady-heroes of Jaime, Brittany and Paige, having survived the convenience store zombie attack and seeming self-sacrifice of new friends Em-Jay and Dre-Bob last issue, now embark on a raid of the student dorms in search of weapons and, well, survival.

With meat-hungry undeads at their backs, the girls break into the dorms, and the one-liners begin. While Jaime plays guard dog, Paige and Brittany do something with a lady zombie that I believe has never been done before, in any medium. Cod bless. B. Alex Thompson keeps the nonstop banter light and frisky as the growing weight of the overall predicament for the girls and their college community at last starts to settle on in. Retreating to their friend JK's apartment for some tech guru assistance, The girls turn on each other as yet another life is lost. And possibly one of the world's worst pick-up lines I have ever heard of. The most solid chapter yet, by far.

Buscalferri's full line art is very animated (but not "cartoony"), the forms of her characters extremely self-assured. Confident line work, and with the series staple of almost excessive "T and A" levels fully present and accounted for, this is a well-drawn comic. Even though there is a changing of the artistic guard with each new issue, there is still a loose manner of house look for the title, which if anything, makes it much easier as a reader to be pulled in to the Evil Inside. Expressive, without really going too far over the top.

This is still a fun premise, and I am still continuing my daily reviews in pseudo-celebration of the upcoming Hallow's weekend. If you want some scary comic book reading materials, then by all means- throw on something sexy and come along for the ride.

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