Bringing together the culmination of comics, photos and zombies; Night Zero delivers a state-of-the-art experience.

Photo comics is not a new thing, in the 1970’s, film companies looked to capitalize on their new releases by issuing what was known as the “fumetti”, or a photo-comic of their movies. Since then, many titles have come out from both movies and original content.

Night Zero is a web-comic using High Dynamic Range photography which captures an image 3 times in 3 different exposures to capture an almost 3 dimensional image giving you all the shadow and highlights and depth of the environment.

The project is run independently by over a hundred artists, photographers, production staff, editors, actors, costumers, make-up artists who all volunteer their talents to this project.

Night Zero is not your typical zombie story. They are not the shambling flesh eating undead, they are infected by a virus that controls humans to become killing machines. The story takes place in Seattle where the entire west coast has been ravaged by the virus and the whole world goes quiet after a few days.

Shot on location in Seattle, the story is told in vignettes on a web comic updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The story arc covers different factions all trying to survive the apocalypse. One faction has walled in a section of the city and called it New City, ruled by a totalitarian government to quell the chaos. Two other factions exist outside the city walls. One run by a pair of outlaws who run their area like a prison and live by animalistic “only the strongest survive” principals and the other is run by “the syndicate”; a Mafioso-style group of survivors that refuses to team up with The New City government.

With all the action of a zombie flick but all the humanistic trials of a drama, Night Zero caught my attention and I eagerly await the next episode.