Book Reviews Of The Month – Rotten #9

Rotten #9
Moonstone Comics
Written by Mark Rahner & Robert Horton
Art by Dan Dougherty

You ever have one of those days when it seems like you can’t win for any reason? Well, that’s kind of what’s going on with the two main characters from Rotten from Moonstone. In issue #9, you have one character running for his life from a bunch of zombies. He’s the one having a really bad day, getting stung by a swarm of what I’m guessing are bees, cutting his foot, being attacked left and right and some other stuff. Then you have his partner who’s trying to do some research on cannibalism and talk to the smartest minds in the late 18th century Chicago but things just keep happening that aren’t adding up.

Reading this book was interesting. They kept switching from one character and his troubles to the other. For me, it took a little reading to be able to follow but I was able to. The paneling was very simple and easy to follow. The art was bright and gave a different feel. When dealing with the undead and zombies, you’d expect it to be dark, but the colors were bright. Giving you that feel that everything is normal, but it’s not. The writing was done well; each character’s terms fit them and the time period. There are some points that are true to the time, arguments over Darwinism and how science was not accepted, this added to the feel of the time for me.

This was a good book and, most likely a good storyline to follow. If you like period pieces or zombie books, you have a line that will fit both of your needs. Rotten is anything but. If you pick this one up, you’ll have questions like what happens next or what happened before that you will want to get answered. In my humble opinion, this is one to pick it. I give it 3 caps out of 5.