Awakening Volume One

AWAKENING is the type of storytelling achievement you often find yourself reading in trade format a year after-the-fact, wondering why the hell you didn't hear more about it at the time of its publishing. The type of book that goes on to achieve eventual cult status and terrible film adaptations that wholly miss the point. - Tom Mattson --Newseed Comics

Eckman-Lawn's hybrid work here just goes to show how much art can influence the feeling of a book and the nigh-limitless length that technology has allowed art to expand within the comic book medium. --Geeks of Doom

For anyone who sincerely wants to find the next horror concept comic that should be mirrored by writers and artists everywhere for years after it's done, aping such an original thing until it's no longer anything of the sort, then AWAKENING will prove a unique experience, and an immensely satisfying one at that. - Dave Baxter --Broken Frontier

Description

The once peaceful city of Park Falls has been tainted by a series of gruesome murders and missing persons. Cynthia Ford, known as the town crazy, finds retired police detective Derrick Peters and relates to him her belief about what's going on in town. Her explanation - Zombies! Unable to ignore Cynthia's information, though not sharing her beliefs, Derrick and others in the town explore the mystery as weeks turn to months and the death toll rises. Follow the first half of Park Falls' year-long struggle for answers in this collected edition of the first five issues of the Archaia existential horror series.