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Here's hoping XOMBI can be resurrected twice, but I dunno, brother. If STATIC SHOCK couldn't hack it in DC's new 52 universe, I don't see how a less prominent minority hero can have his burn in DC's fresh world order. But at least you can glom on to this outstanding trade paperback. It collects the very recent XOMBI #1-6, as well as a blast from the past, THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #26 from 2009 (of which issue had already been collected in Brave and the Bold: Milestone (Brave and the Bold (DC Comics))). Lamentably, these six new issues are the only ones we fans will get of the XOMBI relaunch. The Milestone run went longer. Still, noting the sublime quality of these issues, somewhere, Dwayne McDuffie is big grinning.

I am gobsmacked at writer John Rozum's flair for inventiveness and originality. It's not enough that he trots out a lead character, Dr. David Kim, whose countless nanomachines in his system maintains optimum upkeep on his body. David has relinquished the need for sleep or sustenance. He has essentially become immortal, able to heal from practically any injury, no matter how grievous. While not original, this is a very cool premise. John Rozum then refuses to settle. He proceeds to plonk David into the most peculiar (and imaginative) of situations. Gratifyingly, bits of humor are also liberally sprinkled in.

David's "condition" has rendered him a "weirdness magnet." Of late the company he keeps would make the Algonquin Round Table seem staid and pallid. What I like about David Kim, other than his neat powers, is that he seems like an average joe. (I also like that he's not portrayed as some kung-fu fighter... just because he's Asian-American.) David's levelheadedness and down-to-earth demeanor ground his forays into the offbeat and the occult. He's trying hard to hold on to what's normal. But he feels that normality slipping away.

These six issues tell the marvelous "The Ninth Stronghold" arc, with Rozum's high concept ideas surfacing in dizzying succession. It opens with David being deployed to investigate a miniature penitentiary that just may compel Hank Pym to reach out to his litigator. David is tasked with ensuring that a ridiculously dangerous inmate (a Jekyll/Hyde type) hasn't been liberated from his shrunken incarceration. But, of course, he has. Several characters from the original Milestone series appear in this latest incarnation. David is abetted by the perky teenager, Catholic Girl (whose prayers pack a wallop), Rabbi Sinnowitz (a grumpy occult practitioner), Nun of the Above (a pistol-packing clairvoyant nun), and Nun the Less (who gained the ability to shrink to a small size from consuming bad shrimp). When David notices a particularly sour-faced, old nun and asks her, "Which nun are you?", her reply made me laugh. "Nun of your business," she retorts. Heh.

John Rozum throws in some pretty fantastic flourishes. The prisoner's break-out is only the opening gambit in a fiendish mastermind's plot to secure a foothold to unthinkable power. From there, the story expands and introduces a hidden world in the skies, in the shape of floating mystical strongholds, home to a community of immortals. David and his eccentric religious contingent, in their pursuit of the prisoner, promptly run into a gauntlet of horrors, ranging from snow angels, dental phantoms, the demonic spirits of children who fell victim to Halloween, the Sisterhood of Blood Mummies, and even Rage Incarnate. Rozum does a particularly neat thing regarding the Jekyll/Hyde character. It illustrates just how diabolically clever the story's big bad is.

I love the macabre details with which Rozum fleshed out the supernatural creatures. The blood mummies, for example, entertain two hearts and two circulatory systems, this lending the sisters even greater strength and endurance. As protection, they cover themselves in cloaks constructed of spider-silk. Spiders constantly patrol these cloaks, making any necessary repairs and feeding on the mosquitoes drawn to the sisters. Yum. The makeup of the Rustling Husks are as equally inventive (it involves the souls of dead angry wasps).

This trade also includes an older one-off story. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #26 unveils an atmospheric supernatural tale, "Annihilating Angel" (also written by Rozum), in which a malevolent haunt - that not even the Spectre was able to entirely subdue - is exterminating his fellow ghosts. Enter David Kim, to see if he can achieve what the Spirit of Vengeance couldn't. Contrast the unrelentingly grim tone of that issue with "The Ninth Stronghold" arc, and you'll immediately sense how much more lighthearted "The Ninth Stronghold" is. And yet Rozum doesn't undermine the gravity of the narrative. The stakes are very much raised. David Kim undergoes several hideous mutilations here (his regenerative ability often logically renders him the first combatant in the fray). There are two pretty gnarly nano-healing moments, one of which is so horrible that there's question as to whether even David's tissues could regenerate).

I gawked at the art; it's so good. Frazer Irving is a composer of such striking layouts and design. He also provides the colors, and the offbeat palette he applies only accentuates the quirkiness of the narrative. Rozum and Irving is a creative team to be reckoned with, which makes the cancellation of XOMBI all the more puzzling and disappointing. David Kim and his unusual cronies would've ideally populated this new DC's darker corners.


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Xombi John Rozum Fraser Irving Books Reviews

I stumbled over this book when looking up comics that feature Fraser Irving art. Irving is in his usual great form here, with his customary mix of bright and charming facial features, striking layouts and gorgeous coloring.

The writing by Rozum, though, was a total surprise. I don’t know any of his other work, but after reading this book, I’ll definitely seek it out! The tone here is humorous, intense and incredibly clever. Xombi is full of captivating and intriguing ideas, fleshed out with distinctive characters who grow and change through the book.

Like most great fantasy writers, Rozum delivers a story that is rooted in common tropes but then transforms those tropes into inventions we have never seen before even as the story betrays a well thought through internal logic.

This is one of the best graphic novels I’ve read in a long time.
Pretty good story. Some interesting concepts and (as always) awesome art from Frazer Irving. I probably should have known more about the character and his history before I read it. There just wasn't the depth for me to totally appreciate the stakes of the whole thing.
wish it did not have to end. I love this writer and stories of this sort. I have to go back reread the original series.
Hidden treasure. Never had heard of it and sort of ran across it while browsing for something new.
"Xombi' is probably the best DC series of the past few years. I wasn't expecting much when I bought it, but it surprised me on every level. The writing, from the dialogue to the plot, is sharp and extremely fresh and original. Frazer Irving's artwork perfectly encapsulates the universe these characters inhabit. I don't think I'd even know how to describe the plot except to say it involves secret agent nuns, hidden castles, religious folklore, undead trick or treaters, living golems and the human immortal zombie who encounters all of that. If you like comics like BPRD, Planetary or Starman you'll love this.
Here's hoping XOMBI can be resurrected twice, but I dunno, brother. If STATIC SHOCK couldn't hack it in DC's new 52 universe, I don't see how a less prominent minority hero can have his burn in DC's fresh world order. But at least you can glom on to this outstanding trade paperback. It collects the very recent XOMBI #1-6, as well as a blast from the past, THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #26 from 2009 (of which issue had already been collected in Brave and the Bold Milestone (Brave and the Bold (DC Comics))). Lamentably, these six new issues are the only ones we fans will get of the XOMBI relaunch. The Milestone run went longer. Still, noting the sublime quality of these issues, somewhere, Dwayne McDuffie is big grinning.

I am gobsmacked at writer John Rozum's flair for inventiveness and originality. It's not enough that he trots out a lead character, Dr. David Kim, whose countless nanomachines in his system maintains optimum upkeep on his body. David has relinquished the need for sleep or sustenance. He has essentially become immortal, able to heal from practically any injury, no matter how grievous. While not original, this is a very cool premise. John Rozum then refuses to settle. He proceeds to plonk David into the most peculiar (and imaginative) of situations. Gratifyingly, bits of humor are also liberally sprinkled in.

David's "condition" has rendered him a "weirdness magnet." Of late the company he keeps would make the Algonquin Round Table seem staid and pallid. What I like about David Kim, other than his neat powers, is that he seems like an average joe. (I also like that he's not portrayed as some kung-fu fighter... just because he's Asian-American.) David's levelheadedness and down-to-earth demeanor ground his forays into the offbeat and the occult. He's trying hard to hold on to what's normal. But he feels that normality slipping away.

These six issues tell the marvelous "The Ninth Stronghold" arc, with Rozum's high concept ideas surfacing in dizzying succession. It opens with David being deployed to investigate a miniature penitentiary that just may compel Hank Pym to reach out to his litigator. David is tasked with ensuring that a ridiculously dangerous inmate (a Jekyll/Hyde type) hasn't been liberated from his shrunken incarceration. But, of course, he has. Several characters from the original Milestone series appear in this latest incarnation. David is abetted by the perky teenager, Catholic Girl (whose prayers pack a wallop), Rabbi Sinnowitz (a grumpy occult practitioner), Nun of the Above (a pistol-packing clairvoyant nun), and Nun the Less (who gained the ability to shrink to a small size from consuming bad shrimp). When David notices a particularly sour-faced, old nun and asks her, "Which nun are you?", her reply made me laugh. "Nun of your business," she retorts. Heh.

John Rozum throws in some pretty fantastic flourishes. The prisoner's break-out is only the opening gambit in a fiendish mastermind's plot to secure a foothold to unthinkable power. From there, the story expands and introduces a hidden world in the skies, in the shape of floating mystical strongholds, home to a community of immortals. David and his eccentric religious contingent, in their pursuit of the prisoner, promptly run into a gauntlet of horrors, ranging from snow angels, dental phantoms, the demonic spirits of children who fell victim to Halloween, the Sisterhood of Blood Mummies, and even Rage Incarnate. Rozum does a particularly neat thing regarding the Jekyll/Hyde character. It illustrates just how diabolically clever the story's big bad is.

I love the macabre details with which Rozum fleshed out the supernatural creatures. The blood mummies, for example, entertain two hearts and two circulatory systems, this lending the sisters even greater strength and endurance. As protection, they cover themselves in cloaks constructed of spider-silk. Spiders constantly patrol these cloaks, making any necessary repairs and feeding on the mosquitoes drawn to the sisters. Yum. The makeup of the Rustling Husks are as equally inventive (it involves the souls of dead angry wasps).

This trade also includes an older one-off story. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #26 unveils an atmospheric supernatural tale, "Annihilating Angel" (also written by Rozum), in which a malevolent haunt - that not even the Spectre was able to entirely subdue - is exterminating his fellow ghosts. Enter David Kim, to see if he can achieve what the Spirit of Vengeance couldn't. Contrast the unrelentingly grim tone of that issue with "The Ninth Stronghold" arc, and you'll immediately sense how much more lighthearted "The Ninth Stronghold" is. And yet Rozum doesn't undermine the gravity of the narrative. The stakes are very much raised. David Kim undergoes several hideous mutilations here (his regenerative ability often logically renders him the first combatant in the fray). There are two pretty gnarly nano-healing moments, one of which is so horrible that there's question as to whether even David's tissues could regenerate).

I gawked at the art; it's so good. Frazer Irving is a composer of such striking layouts and design. He also provides the colors, and the offbeat palette he applies only accentuates the quirkiness of the narrative. Rozum and Irving is a creative team to be reckoned with, which makes the cancellation of XOMBI all the more puzzling and disappointing. David Kim and his unusual cronies would've ideally populated this new DC's darker corners.