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Gwen Dylan

Gwen Dylan is the lead of the Vertigo comic iZombie: a fully conscious revenant who keeps her mind by eating a brain every month. The comic builds a whole theory of monsters around two kinds of soul. It was adapted, loosely, as the CW television series of the same name.1

Battle it
First appeared
2010
Released 2010
Source work
iZombie (2010)
Chris Roberson and Michael Allred (Vertigo)
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
She became a revenant after being bitten by a mummy.
Intelligence
Clever
field notes

What the sources say

1

She must eat a brain once a month or regress into a primitive, homicidal zombie1

2

Eating a brain gives her part of the dead person's thoughts1

3

She works as a gravedigger in Eugene, Oregon, which gives her access to the recently dead1

4

In the comic's cosmology a zombie is a body without an oversoul, the seat of thought and memory; a revenant like Gwen keeps both souls1

5

Her friends are a 1960s ghost and a were-terrier1

6

The series ran 28 issues and was nominated for an Eisner Award1

Sources

  1. iZombie (comic book) - Wikipedia

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