A review by rovertoak
Dead High Yearbook by Ivan Velez Jr.

4.0

“Life is still going to suck but now you’ll hold the straw” is just one gem of a one-liner out of many found throughout this collection of macabre tales. It’s as if the writing team brainstormed kernels of B-horror movie plots then set about to bring them to, uh, life (death?) on each blood-stained (quite literally) page of the Dead High Yearbook. Here, the characters often find themselves subject to horriffic endings befitting their quality of character…or lack thereof: a thug who targets gay men to beat and rob them ends up becoming someone’s dinner in a wonderful twist of fate; The Paris Hilton of high school receives a pet pooch from her boyfriend…more Cujo than Chiuhuaua; A boy arrives home late from visiting with a girl to find his grandmother dead, only to have her return to life…with backup. The seven deadly sins, and some not-so (but equally) deadlies make themselves known, as does good old hubris. Hubris is quite the bitch!