Plants vs. Zombies: Bully for You #1 Review: Silly

The “Plants VS Zombies” games has skyrocketed into popularity and created many spinoffs in various forms. One of these forms is comic books. The most recent is the thirds comic series called “Plants Vs. Zombies: Bully for You” by Paul Tobin with art by Ron Chan and it’s pretty entertaining.

The zombie Zomboss is up to his old tricks again. He’s come up with a new “sinister” plan to take over Neighborville. However, zombie hunters Nate and Patrice, along with people from Zomboss’s past, are out to stop him.

This whole setup comes across as one big silly Saturday morning cartoon story. In fact, that’s the reason it’s a whole lot of fun to read. When the entire premise of your series is a bunch of plants fighting zombies you have no other choice but to be silly with your story. Sure enough, Tobin manages to find the right formula to make it work. From Zomboss using spiders to scare people to the whole balloon gag we get just the right amount of silly to make people want to continue reading. There’s even a yeti in the comic, why? No reason- and the comic doesn’t need one.

Chan’s art helps out with the Saturday morning cartoon look by making it look like a Saturday morning cartoon. The character designs have the right amount of cartoony look without making it look forced. In fact, most of the designs are as simple as they come which is fine. A story like this has no reason to have art on par with something like “V for Vendetta” or to a greater extent “The Arrival.” It just works.

“Plants VS Zombies: Bully for You” is a fun, silly comic from a silly game. There is no rhyme or reason for the story, but that just makes it a whole lot better as a read. The art helps a ton with the story’s tone as well.