Comics publisher ABLAZE has announced that Barnes & Noble is among key national retailers that will by carrying the new zombie manga, Crueler Than Dead, by Tsukasa Saimura and Kozo Takahashi. The first issue of the new survival-horror manga series will and in print and on digital platforms on September 21st and it will retail for $12.99. You can pre-order copies now at BarnesAndNoble.com.
Inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), The Walking Dead, Romero classics, and new zombie films like 28 Days Later, Crueler Than Dead delights in the meticulous detail of decomposed flesh, with a wicked and hungry eye... evoking a modern vision of a zombie world that is both terrifying and tension filled.
To celebrate the announcement, ABLAZE was kind enough to share not only the cover of the upcoming manga series, but several of the interior pages and artwork as well (included below).
About Crueler Than Dead
When Maki Akagi wakes up in a lab full of corpses, she learns from a dying soldier that she is the result of a last-ditch experiment to cure humans of a virus turning them into zombies. Accompanied by a young boy who also miraculously escaped, she will have to try to get to the very center of a devastated Tokyo filled with bloodthirsty monsters. The dome located there contains the last survivors of mankind. And humanity's very survival depends solely on a few drops of this miraculous vaccine...
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