Halloween 2k4: Pages 17-20 by stevygee on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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About pages 17-20
Who can stop the zombie infection? Who will survive?
You could call this the final struggle for survival. We wanted to make this very dramatic and exciting... One by one, the main characters become zombies. It becomes clear that only Thomas has a chance of stopping all this. There is even a morale: In the end, the problem can only be solved at its root, fighting the consequences doesn't change much. The explosion perhaps wasn't the best way to finish off the machine... But it's spectacular and that's okay. The final two panels reveal that the end isn't really the end; like in many Halloween movies.

About the comic
This is the 2004 comic I made with Kristof Tarisznyas a.k.a. =Askhari called Halloween 2k4. It's about zombies (obviously) and a few students are trapped in their school, trying to survive. This a co-operation, so each and every step of creation was divided 50-50.
At the time of writing, the government cut funds from education and instead spent millions on 18 expensive Eurofighter Typhoon... So this also made it into the story as a political background.
Almost all of the characters you see are based of real people, just in a Pacman-form. We tried to make it fun for the students at the school to find themselves... It was also a new challenge to create a comic without too much insider jokes.
We completed the comic in just a few weeks (from writing to printing), the line art is just penciled. It's 20 pages long and was first printed in German. Recently I made the effort to redo all the lettering and put an English version online, so everyone can enjoy it...

Inspiration
There is no doubt that much of the inspiration came from *deaddays comics. In some aspects it is really obvious: We chose to keep it mostly in black/white, the text balloons are really similar... But these things simply had to happen because we like John's comics so much - thanks John

Credits
All writing, characters, pencils, coloring, lettering, translation © 2004, 2007 Stefan Grassberger & Kristof Tarisznyas