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So begins ''Dead Eyes Open'', a comic by Matt Shepherd and Roy Boney, Jr. that takes the typical [[Zombie Apocalypse]] story and turns it on its head. The comic was published from 2005 to 2006 by SLG Publishing, and re-released in 2007 as a graphic novel. Starting July 5, 2009, the creators began posting the comic page-by-page on a blog; the last page went up on January 22, 2010. You can read it from the beginning [http://deadeyesopen.com/welcome/ here].
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* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Ellard.}}
* [[Boom Headshot]]: The preferred way of dealing with rogue Returners (the other alternative being massive body trauma, like giant holes blown through the chest), and thus unapologetically abused in the fight scenes.
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Returners are already clinically dead, but massive trauma to the chest or head can kill them again. {{spoiler|So can a specially-tailored anti-Returner virus, a fact Ellard intends to prove.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Ellard is manipulating both sides of the Returner civil rights battle to further his own agenda.}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: A socially-disenfranchised minority fights for rights and acceptance in a world that fears and hates them. Am I talking about blacks, Jews, gays, or Returners? (And yes, references to all three of the preceding examples are used to characterize the Returner plight, and repeatedly lampshaded -- Requin specifically protests the government's Returner internment camps, pointing out that he's Jewish.)
* [[The Dragon]]: Taylor. {{spoiler|Twice, as it turns out.}}
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Taylor.
* [[Eye Scream]]: A few, including one Returner junkie getting shot in the eyeballs with tranquilizer darts (since, as Returner hearts obviously don't pump, it's the only way to get the drugs to the brain), several getting shot in the eyes with ''bullets'', and of course {{spoiler|[[The Reveal]] of what exactly killed Wil Wheaton}}.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|After confirming that, yes, Ellard does have an anti-Returner plague, and yes, he has released it, John and Blakeney simply have the Returner security force seal him up inside the (airtight) Defcon bunker. Eventually, he'll die after running out of "food, water, or hope," and if/when he Returns, the virus will kill him ''again''.}}
* [[Fridge Logic]]: [[Self
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: John, Blakeney, and Ellard are all working towards improving the Returners' quality-of-unlife, but they don't communicate between each other very much, and the tensions and rivalry between John and Blakeney stop them from being as effective as they could be. {{spoiler|At least until it becomes clear that Ellard is actually planning to [[Kill
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Yes, John's daughter is [[Freudian Excuse|justifiably traumatized]] by her father becoming an undead abomination. She's still a [[Jerkass|jerk]]. The child aptly dubbed [[Fat Bastard|Mean Fat Kid]] by the author is another example.
* [[Mad Eye]]: A number of Returners have one eye that's permanently wide-open. The author calls it a "crazy eye".
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One of John's eyes is cloudy.
* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: The "polite" term for the undead is "Returners," while the [[Fantastic Slurs|impolite version]] is "Deadies." [[Word of God]] states that the word "zombie" actually ''doesn't exist'' in this universe, but someone spread a rumor during the initial revival wave that they ate human brains, and references to old Romero films are still in.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|One Celebrity Was Brutally Killed And Came Back As A Returner]]: Oprah Winfrey and [[Wil Wheaton]] are both characters in ''[[Dead Eyes Open]]''. {{spoiler|Wil's the dead one, and as it turns out, being the first "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|outed]]" Returner celebrity does wonders for one's career - and Returner rights! At the end of the book, it's mentioned he's running for [[Ronald Reagan|Governor of]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|California]].}}
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: On the covers, the only element of the series that's in colour, the Returners are depicted with red irises.
* [[Right Man in The Wrong Place]]: John becomes the government spokesperson for the Returners (leading directly to him {{spoiler|saving all of Returner-kind from the plague and providing them with a "promised land" in the Arctic Circle}}) chiefly by virtue of being a respectable academic and lucky enough to survive an attack from a government kill-team.
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: John does, eventually, by {{spoiler|personally executing Taylor after chewing him out, and going on to prove his "ideals" wrong}}.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Taylor. Also John, to an extent.}}
* [[Well
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* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|At the end, John turns down the opportunity to live in Alaska with the rest of the Returned, which would effectively allow him to exist forever, and elects instead to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|return home to spend the rest of his days with his family]].}}
** {{spoiler|Oddly enough, this trope is played with in Ellard's motive to wipe out the Returners. People who don't die cause a LOT of unnatural problems, leading to more like a "who wants to have others live forever?"}}
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: One of the few out there where the ''zombies'' are the ones being hunted. {{spoiler|Ellard's ultimate plan is to invoke this trope as literally as possible, IE creating an apocalypse that wipes out the zombies themselves.}}
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