The Undad: Photographic Memory
I ended up buying five comics from Laughing Ogre during my recent trip to Columbus (6/26, future readers, or maybe past readers who are very freaked out right now) and so far I’m 0 for 2 on reading comics that have active websites. But hey, at least this time around I was able to link to his active Instagram page, so if you’d like to check out his comic, maybe contact him there and see what you can find out! This one has a solid premise: what if a dad had been turned into a zombie but was calm enough to be able to still be around his family? Tied up to a tree in the backyard, granted, but able to mostly control his urges. Things start off with a distraught woman putting up missing posters for her daughter, while Undad was playing with his own daughter in the backyard. She recognizes the missing girl as a classmate who was kind of a jerk to her, but hey, somebody should at least try to find this terrible kid! They end up checking out a boarded up grocery store with a very stark warning written outside of it, which naturally leads to a zombie attack. But are they regular brain eating zombies or also kind of nice zombies? There’s a fun little moral dilemma involved, or at least there is for the member of the search party who’s still capable of higher thought. From there they can think of one other place to search, but it’s chained up and checking it out doesn’t look like a great idea either. How far is this girl willing to go to rescue a kid who isn’t even her friend? If you’re looking for a deep lore dive of “OK, so what is civilization like with zombies wandering around?” or “If this one guy can be tamed, can that happen with all of them?” then there are probably other comics out there for you. But this one was a sweet, self-contained story about what’s left of a dad trying to get along in the world and his family trying to navigate what’s left of the guy. And hey, it’s full color, so if you have $4 and can find a copy (there are probably some left at Laughing Ogre as I’m typing this), check it out! $4
Posted by Kevin 
