Jam Of The Living Dead

A Tribute To George A. Romero

Hello! Welcome to the newest edition of Fresh Comics, which also happens to be a tribute to the one and only George A. Romero! Oh my gosh…There’s so much to say about this guy. It’s not often that you have to summarize an icon into a few short sentences, but I’ll try my best.

Romero started a film career as a director for the public television show Mr Rodgers’s Neighborhood. From there he took his skills and reinvented a genre. The horror film existed before he came along, and there were some really great horror films already out there. That said, Romero transformed the form to suit his own sensibilities. He inserted social commentary, and satire into a format usually reserved for cheap thrills. He used the medium to talk about racism and civil rights, commercialism, and the irresponsible powers of the military industrial complex. Romero used the images of zombies, gruesome ghouls, and evil witches as metaphors for the real horrors a society tried it’s best to ignore on a day to day basis. Most of all he taught us how to look behind our fear. What are we really afraid of?

Romero passed away only a few short weeks ago, but his memory and his accomplishments will live on far longer than his seventy seven years on this planet. Get comfortable, kids. We have comics, they are fresh, and you are ready to read. Enjoy…