The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades don't need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Don't be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset--life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The best part is the section of historic zombie outbreaks.
If you haven't read world War Z, this is probably not for you.
The lists of stuff you need and how to prepare your house to face a siege are repetitious but they do sound sensible.
It's trying to look like an actual manual for people who live in a world with zombies and ut succeeds at this.
But such a book, like most manuals is pretty dull.

There's no ‘new' story in this book - it's instead a graphic-novel adaptation of the ‘Recorded Attacks' section of Brooks' Survival Guide. For those of you who haven't read the guide, the section in question outlines zombie outbreaks in various points in history, ranging from prehistoric Africa, ancient Rome, the age of Sail, and others.

Adaptations are tricky things. They require balancing being faithful to the story material with having something unique to say; this becomes even more difficult when the same author's writing both versions. Recorded Attacks doesn't really have anything unique beyond the change of format from written medium to visual one, and Brooks has clearly thought about what makes for a scary comic versus a scary print story. So while I can't really call it great, it's a solid story that's a worthwhile read for fans of zombie comics as well as for those who have read the Guide and want more.

What really makes the collection worth a read, though, is the art by Ibraim Roberson, whose work I wasn't familiar with prior to this. The man draws a mean zombie, and also does a pretty good job of capturing the various cultures throughout history that the zombie attacks take place in.