Daybreak - Brian Ralph

You wake up in the rubble to see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep. And then announces that hell take the first watch. Its not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector and is scratching at the door. What transpires is a moment-to-moment struggle for survivalThe Road meets Dawn of the Dead. DAYBREAK is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he follows his protector and runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. Ralph slowly builds the tension of the zombies on the periphery letting the threatrather than the actual carnagebe the driving force. The post-apocalyptic backdrop features tangles of rocks, lumber, i-beams, and overturned cars that are characters in and of them selves. - - Ralphs stunning debut was the wordless graphic novel Cave-In created while he was one of the founding members of the influential Fort Thunder art collective. Drawing inspiration from zombies, horror movies, television and first-person shooter video games, DAYBREAK departs from zombie genre in both content and format, achieving a living dead masterwork of literary proportions. -