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We never should have left the mall.

Zombies Calling is a comic book by Faith Erin Hicks. The story follows a student named Joss, whose main survival skill is being genre savvy in a zombie-infested university.

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This work is examples of:

• A Man Is Not a Virgin: Subverted with Robyn.
• Cassandra Truth: Joss runs into zombie's one night and her roommates don't believe her. Next day the zombies have taken over campus.
• Daylight Horror
• Enclosed Space
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Professor is just called Professor.
• Evil Plan / Insane Troll Logic: The Professor's evil plan is to turn his students into zombies through chemically enhanced coffee to make a statement about the modern day college system. Yeah...
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • • Sanguine: Joss
    • Melancholic: Sonnet
    • Phlegmatic: Robyn
    • Choleric: The Professor
• Genki Girl: Joss
• Genre Savvy: Joss gets this from seeing every zombie movie ever made.
• Heroic Sacrifice: rule two
• Improbable Weapon User: Jars, books and sporks are among the weapons.
• Lampshade Hanging
• Military Brat: Robyn is revealed to be one
• Not Using the Z Word: Lampshaded and subverted
• Only One Name: Joss and Robyn.
• Our Zombies Are Different
• Perky Goth: Sonnet fits the bill.
• Poster Gallery Bedroom
• Rose-Haired Girl: On the cover, at any rate.
• Shout-Out
• Two Girls and a Guy
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Subverted in that Joss is not British; she just wants to go to Britain. Then there's the other guy.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Does this need to be explained?