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Comics Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri

Better Zombies Through Physics 03

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Published on October 10, 2008

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Join us for chills, thrills, and pulse-pounding scientific breakthroughs as we embark on a tour of the Quantum Zombie, Inc. facility, courtesy of a guy who bears a striking resemblance to famed scientist and cat-lover Erwin Schrödinger. Hijinks, hilarity, and an abundance of felines await you in Tor.com’s newest comic strip.

Links to previous episodes are here.

(c) 2008 Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri

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Jim Ottaviani

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Jim is the author of seven graphic novels about scientists (so far), on topics ranging from physicists to paleontogists to behaviorists. He's probably the only comics writer whose books have received acclaim from both Physics World and Vampirella Magazine.

Upcoming titles include biographies of Richard Feynman and the Trimates (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas) for First Second, and "T-Minus," the story of the space race, for Simon & Schuster's young adult imprint Aladdin.

His day job used to be as a nuclear engineer. He's now a librarian at the University of Michigan.

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Sean Bieri

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Sean Bieri is an illustrator, grapic designer, and cartoonist whose humorous mini-comics include Business Chimp, The Gospel According to St. Segar, the Jape series, and others. His work appears in Jim Ottaviani's Two Fisted Science, the anthology True Porn, and online at Serializer.net. This year, a comic strip synopsis of the scandals surrounding Detroit's former mayor, for which Bieri provided art, won an award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. He is the art director of Detroit's free weekly paper Metro Times and lives with his wife in the tiny urban enclave of Hamtramck, Michigan.

Sean's work for Tor.com includes his own The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas and art for Ottaviani's Better Zombies Through Physics. View Sean's Tor.com artist gallery here.

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Nishnabotna
16 years ago

Is this supposed to be funny? Cause the comic is kinda like a zombie itself. It might not be dead, but it sure doesn’t have any life to it.

PS Captchas are annoying enough, but does it have to flutter?

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ShawnShine
16 years ago

this is a fantastic comic, to bad we get only one page a week. I can’t wait for the next one.

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R.Fife
16 years ago

I am finding this decently entertaining, only in so much as I took my fair share of quantum physics in high school and college, and now it is fun to see it put to real world, practical uses.

If I had a criticism, it would be the perception of pacing. Perhaps once it is fully released and can be read in a single sitting, it won’t feel as much, but it reminds me of some of the issues of epic webcomics (a la errant story by M. Poe). A single page sometimes just doesn’t move along anything, even if it is pretty. In a sitdown and enjoy fashion, you can brush past the page no problem. When it is forcibly paced by an update schedule, you sometimes get let down or bored.

So, that said, I’ll reserve judgement for after the entire comic is done. Right now, it could be epically good or an epic flop.

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David Oakes
16 years ago

It is both Epically Good and an Epic Flop.

Smeared in equal proportions…

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Lupus Deus Est
16 years ago

It’s a little slow paced, but given its proposed audience the physics is ok/not too challenging.
Agree with David Oakes. No matter the rest of the comic’s contents, it’s better than anything on Facebook. :P

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Anansii
16 years ago

Before this gets much longer, for convenience sake I strongly suggest the addition of a “previous” “next” link bar rather than making people go back to the table of contents to get to the next strip, as is done with most web comics.

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Anansii
16 years ago

OH, that was brilliant. Despite my lopsided phrasing it was, of course, the link bar that is done with most web comics.