Matthew's Reviews > iZombie, Vol. 4: Repossession

Well . . . that’s the ending of the iZombie series. Pretty much seemed like a phoned in rush job just to bring the series to a close. They might as well have called this issue “Deus Ex Machina” as almost every frame was like “Oh, here are some people that we need to be here to continue the story” and “Oh, suddenly we are all here where the important stuff is happening”.



For a series that started off so well, I am disappointed that it ended this way. In fact, I am not sure you really need to read the previous volumes because they throw it all out the window to bring it to a close. All the focus on Gwen as the zombie protagonist is gone as she is hardly in this volume until the very end. Every character they introduced throughout the previous books is in this, but they have very little purpose except to interact with each other in a way that will get them all to the same place for the big climax. In fact, there are two or three characters I am not even sure they ever explained why they were there – they just show up! It really feels like the creators were suddenly told they were cancelling the series and the author and artist scrambled to get it done. I even feel like the art is less crisp – like it was rushed.



I should have known it wasn’t going well when it took me two weeks to read this because I was never really interested in going back to it.

While I enjoyed the first 3 volumes, I cannot say I recommend the series because I know you are building up to a disappointing ending.