In New York City, bands of survivors have created small, isolated communities. It’s winter, so most of the zombies have frozen solid. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t dangers. In the city, a gang of cannibals (led by Andy Warhol) hunts the streets for long-pig. Meanwhile, what’s left of the US government, led by Richard Nixon, is making common cause with…Charles Manson? Well, sure, why not. And, in Vietnam, the war sputters on as a small group of US soldiers (all going by the name Jungle Jim) prepares to do battle with a mixed force of NVA, VC and zombies.
The first two issues focus mostly on what’s happening New York, with issue two taking a long detour to fill in the some details of what happened to the Yams, a Chinese couple introduced as the parents of the protagonist of the earlier series, Kuen Yam, an American solider in Vietnam. While the overall story is good, issue two drags a little. The Yams are not characters who have been developed enough to care about and their story is not that engaging (although the Sunset Boulevard references are amusing). However, there are enough interesting plot points, including a mysterious film that apparently shows why there is a zombie apocalypse, to hold my interest. The art, by Jeff Zornow, is good and delivers some nice, gory zombie action.
It’s a pretty silly, over-the-top series, one that has drifted away from it’s grittier war-horror origins. But, if you are looking for a neat, enjoyable, bloody bit of horror fiction, ’68: Last Rites delvers. If you are new to the world of ’68, however, I would recommend starting with the original ’68 and ’68: Scars for an introduction to the world and the characters.
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