Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed with G.I. Zombie #3. Not that the story is bad; we get to see our title character deal with a huge zombie outbreak, try to figure out how to contain it, and scheme for a cure — which makes for an interesting story, especially when he interacts with the survivors.
It mostly has to do with the pacing of the story. The comic is on fast forward for most of the book, speeding through scene after scene. It honestly doesn’t allow for much development of the cast or for us to really focus too much on the carnage and chaos taking place. This results in a lot of awkward and disjointed transitions from page to page, which can result in you turning back a page to see if you accidentally missed something in between. Frankly, between the zombie outbreak and checking in on the other military characters, there is enough material for this to be spread into two issues or at least one oversized issue. The limited amount of pages just didn’t help.
The artwork by Scott Hampton is solid. The characters look fine and the Hampton does a fantastic job depicting the zombies, who are still mostly human looking and exhibit a nice transitional, “just infected” look. The only real weak part is that there are a lot of blank white or dull looking backgrounds. It doesn’t take too much away from the book, but is noticeable at points.
Star Spangled War Stories Featuring GI Zombie #3 has a solid story coupled with some very effective artwork, but is unfortunately pulled down too much by the terrible pacing and story flow. Hopefully, the next issue will read much better than this issue.
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