CHAOS CAMPUS: SORORITY GIRLS VS ZOMBIES No. 31
APPROBATION COMICS
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: B. Alex Thompson – @ApproBAT
ART: Ricardo Mendez
COLORS: Russell Vincent Yu
LETTERS: Krugos
POST-SCRIPTING/POLISH: John P. Ward
EDITORS: B. Alex Thompson and John P. Ward
COVER: Ricardo Mendez
28pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. print/$1.99 U.S. digital (2017; digital release date – July 12, 2017)
Rated: Teen 13+ / 15+ Only – comiXology rating
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies created by B. Alex Thompson
“Juggernauts”
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies is the long-running zombie apocalypse comic book series from Approbation Comics. Mixing in elements of comedy, horror, and adventure, it is the creation of B. Alex Thompson. The series is set during a zombie invasion and follows the adventures of three members of the sorority, Epsilon Alpha Zeta Upsilon (EAZY): ass-kickin’ Jamie Lynn Schaeffer, brainy and magic-wielding Paige Helena Patton, and sexy Brittany Ann Miller.
Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies #31 (“Juggernauts”) opens in the aftermath of “Super Chaos Babies.” A small military unit arrives at the remains of Salvation East, destroyed by the betrayal and conflict within Jamie Lynn Schaeffer's family (specifically her twin sister, Aimee). Instead of sanctuary, the soldiers find Neo-Zombies and the massive slasher, Kurtis Kasey the Body Snatcher (created by Phantom Avri)!
Caught between a flesh-rending rock and flesh-eating hard place, the soldiers call upon “Project Seventy-Two” to save them from Kasey. However, their Seventy-Two turns out to be another slasher familiar to readers of Chaos Campus, Mikhail Grishuk the Meat Man. Now, its Kurtis vs. Mikhail, and no one should get caught in the middle of this slasher-on-slasher kill-fest.
Meanwhile, the EAZY girls are about to find themselves getting involved when they should be resting from their recent adventures. What happens when one of the slashers runs off with one of the girls?
THE LOWDOWN: After bringing “The Road to Salvation” story line to an end, writer B. Alex Thompson continues to bring levity to Chaos Campus via a series of standalone stories. “Juggernauts” is the best of the lot – so far.
Ricardo Mendez's art reminds me of the storytelling that readers would find in Marvel Comics' The Punisher. Mendez's storytelling has nice pacing and offers just enough brutality and gruesomeness to capture the Chaos Campus style. Colorist Russell Vincent Yu dresses the story in gritty hues, dominated by the uniform gray of military order and violence.
B. Alex Thompson does his readers a nice turn by returning some of their favorite “slashers.” I had not forgotten the inimitable Kurtis Kasey since the very first time I saw him (perhaps, Chaos Campus #9-10), and had often hoped he would return. In Chaos Campus #31 Thompson uses returning characters and settings to move the story to its next destination. It is up to letterer Krugos to heighten the story's violent and comically violent melodrama, which he does
Chaos Campus #31, like many issues of the series, is a good starting point for new readers. Although this issue is rooted in the series' distant and recent past, “Juggernauts” is easy to follow. Plus, the ending will make readers, both new and old, want to come back.
POSSIBLE AUDIENCE: Fans of zombies and of horror-comedies will want to try Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies.
8 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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