A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse

By Paul Lewis and Kenneth Kit Lamug

Starting with a father whose son has been asking questions about global dangers, A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies takes us inside our worst fears, laughing at some and taking others seriously. With macabre verse and fantastically gory illustrations, it provides gallows humor for our doom-haunted times.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release date: Oct 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781449488321

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[texascheeseman · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming ApocalypseAuthor: Paul Lewis (Author), Kenneth Kit Lamug (Author)Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Publishing Date: (October 10, 2017)Pgs: 40Dewey: 818.602 L675a Disposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX_________________________________________________REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:A, B, Cs of the Apocalypse from a father to a son. A darkly comedic vision of the end of everything. Global dangers. Fear. Macabre. Gory. Doom. Gallows humor. _________________________________________________Genre:SatireParodyComic StripsABCsApocalypseWhy this book:Intriguing._________________________________________________Realized as I reading this that my usual review format wasn’t where I needed to go. And so…A is for AAAHHHH.B is for not bedtime stories.C is for the civilization that survives.D is for the dark dreams of a dying Earth.E is for an Earth wheezing a last breath.F is for freaky.G is for gore.H is for Haunting and so much more.I is for I can’t believe this could be mistaken for a kid’s book.J is for jumping out of their little skins.K is for knowledge that some of these things are possible.L is for a long life surviving the apocalypse.M is for the monsters that humans dream up.N is for no way on reading this to your young ones unless you want them sleeping with you and going to tons of therapy.O is for OMG.P is for what the dad in the story is doing on himself by story’s end.Q is for reading this in a house that’s too quiet.R is for reading, it’s still fundamental.S is for the starkness of a world dying.T is for not believing that Trump got into the text.U is for the ugliness that sprawls in these pages, the possible apocalypse is the ugliest of all.W is for weirdness and not what I was expecting.X is for the extra little tingle when you consider the future.Y is for youth and their surviving dark tomorrows.Z is for zombies who when placed in context with everything else trying to kill us aren’t that frightening at all._________________________________________________