Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins the bastardized famous opening of Jane Austen’s classic Regency romance, with Grahame-Smith’s added flair of flesh-feeding “unmentionables.” P&P&Z is about 80 percent plain old Pride and Prejudice, with Austen’s characters only slightly—horrifically, but slightly—altered to fit the new calamitous setting in which Britain has been overrun by zombies for decades, causing forward-thinkers like Mr. Bennet to send his five daughters to train under a master of the deadly arts in China, a la Kill Bill. As a result, the Bennet daughters are wicked lethal with a musket, Katana sword, and hand-to-hand combat, with of course our heroine Elizabeth being the most proficient of them all.

Incredibly, Grahame-Smith manages to weave the original novel and his nightmarish insertions more or less seamlessly, and even keeps the morals that the literary classic sought to teach. The book is similarly improved with wonderful pen-sketched art depicting the various battles and zombie invasions. P&P&Z is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek battle royale in which the Bennet sisters seek to annihilate Satan’s hordes of the undead and to marry well.

This comic is recommended for Teen readers, ages 13 and up.

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