The two-page illustration that opens this macabre madcap sums it up: a cityscape crowded with roughly 30 people, all of whom would be kind of cute if they weren’t leaking brains, gushing blood, and dropping appendages. What makes this latest entry into the developing middle-grade zombie canon stand out is Kloepfer’s gleeful insistence on goreintestines slop, flesh liquefies, and one character collects severed fingers in a baggie. The plot itself is perfunctory. After a sudden zombie apocalypse hits Phoenix, seventh-grader Zack, fashion-plate Madison, and best-buddy Rice navigate the hungry hoards with makeshift weapons, lots of name-brand products, and plenty of snark, calling one another \