Reading: DEAD AND UNBURIED VOL. 1. ZOMBIE AT LARGE - Jocelyn Boisvert (writer), Pascal Colpron (illustrator)

Colorful artwork and well-drawn characters with a comic touch add greatly to this first-in-a-series graphic novel starring a young student named Yan who is enjoying all life has to offer, when suddenly that life is taken away. With school almost over for the summer, being on the verge of going into production on a new horror movie with his best friend, and a new baby sister on the way, the last thing Yan expected or wanted is to be the victim of violence. But while trying to help someone else, Yan is stabbed to death by a hoodlum - and unlike with most people, life doesn't stop there when a year later Yan wakes up in his coffin, now one of the undead. Once free of his grave, Yan decides that being green and half-rotten away shouldn't deter his friends or family from welcoming him back, and sure enough his best friend is quite accepting (once the shock wears off) - as is the girl, with her own issues, crushing on him - but when Yan makes his way home and learns how much his family has changed (not for the better) since his death, he leaves before being discovered, determined to find a way to put them back on the right path. As said, this is a first-in-a-series, charming and well-executed and darkly funny enough that this reader found himself a bit irritated at the abrupt ending of the book, eagerly wanting more and rooting for Yan all the way.  4/5 stars

NOTE: I received a free ARC of this title from NetGalley and the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.