You got your zombies. You got your campus filled with unsuspecting students. You got your lurching and shambling mobs with a voracious hunger for brains.

But Zombies Calling has something most zombie yarns don't have: a protagonist who watches zombie movies.

Joss isn't your happiest of college kids, and her roommates Robyn and Sonnet don't really seem to understand her or her dark moods. But when zombies start munching on their classmates, only one person in the room knows exactly what to do. And Joss -- who knows the genre demands, among other things, that she develop wicked combat skills -- is in her element for the first time in her life.

This short booklet by Faith Erin Hicks sounds a note or two from the Scream trilogy of films by lifting the notion of horror fans finding themselves in a horror scenario. It's a brief package, lacking much room for plot or character development, but it's an enjoyable read nonetheless. Hicks, who wrote the story and illustrated it with cartoony black-and-white art, needs a bigger forum to tell her next tale.