Max Brooks at Midtown Comics

Last week I got to see Max Brooks at Midtown Comics, where he was signing his new comic Extinction Parade.  The Extinction Parade is about Vampires living in our world while a zombie outbreak occurs.  This isn’t the first time this subject matter has been tackled, but I’m very interested in seeing Max Brooks take on it.  So far the first book seems pretty solid, and whet my appetite for the next issue.  Here’s a description from Avatar Press.

Vampires have always been the elite of the undead.  These apex predators have never feared foe or lack of food…until now.  By remaining too out of touch with the modern world they have failed to notice the subdead zombie race turning the tide over the human population.  Now, perhaps too late, the vampires must stop the encroaching shambling dead or find themselves starved out of existence.

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