Bad things are brewing in the halls of the Ben Turpin School for K-8. When a science project goes wrong, only the prepubescent children are spared the fate of zombification - which is not to say that they're immune from being eaten alive! George Romero covered night, dawn and day, but how about recess? With Recess Pieces, Bob Fingerman (Beg the Question, You Deserved It) dishes up a grisly combination of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" and zombies, zombies and more zombies.

The creator behind Beg the Question and Finger Filth, Fingerman gives the world another helping of outright fun with this Our Gang Meets Dawn of the Dead gene-splicing. When an elementary school science experiment goes awry and causes several of the children and teachers to become flesh-eating zombies, it's every kid for himself. The grade-schoolers must give just as gorily as they get, gruesomely and gleefully rising to the occasion, with one kid memorably converting a clunky industrial arts paper cutter into a very effective zombie deterrent. Refreshingly peopled with a multiethnic band of well-defined young characters, those not put off by the hilariously grisly content will find Fingerman's dark sense of humor is in overdrive, and his lush, offal-drenched artwork is a delight. Beware: despite starring a cast of children, this is in no way a children's comic, as it is replete with realistically frank language and extremely graphic depictions of violence and entrails-munching cannibalism. Fingerman hits one out of the park with this perfect antidote to stodgy "summer" reading.

Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Dark Horse

The basic plot is that a science teacher in a K-12 school is working on reanimating a fetal pig while teaching two other boys in an AP biology course. It doesn't seem to work, so the school day begins as normal. Normal for this school is a little rougher than what I remember school being like. The principal locks the students into the school. The reader follows a few younger students through their day, particularly one boy who makes a lot of bad jokes and is picked on by a bully. That boy happens to find himself in the restroom when the first sign of zombies appears. Everything goes downhill from there, and the younger students have to fight their way through multiple zombies in order to stay alive. How many will live? Well, you'll just have to read it to find out.

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