{"id":929,"date":"2007-08-26T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=929"},"modified":"2007-08-26T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T18:15:50","slug":"shaun-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/26\/shaun-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/shaundead.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun of the Dead\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Chris Ryall<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Zach Howard<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84576-160-X<\/p>\n<p>This eminently readable adaptation of the surprise hit ROMantic ZOMbie COMedy movie is remarkably faithful to the source material, both in staging and in its prodigiously four-letter expletive enhanced script \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so parents take note \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and is therefore a sharp, blackly humorous horror tale about the bonds of friendship and the deep love of a man for his local (that&#8217;s a favoured public house, for overseas readers or natives of restricted social cognizance).<\/p>\n<p>Funny, thrilling and spooky by turns, Ryall&#8217;s dialogue adapted from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright&#8217;s original script, is complimented by Howard&#8217;s stylish pictures which never overwhelm the wit with gore and action.<\/p>\n<p>A book well worth hunting down.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. Shaun Of The Dead is \u00c2\u00a9 &amp; \u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Chris Ryall &amp; Zach Howard (Titan Books) ISBN: 1-84576-160-X This eminently readable adaptation of the surprise hit ROMantic ZOMbie COMedy movie is remarkably faithful to the source material, both in staging and in its prodigiously four-letter expletive enhanced script \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so parents take note \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and is therefore a sharp, blackly humorous horror &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/26\/shaun-of-the-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-eZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}