Then he learns just what a monster the guy really is. Broken Pedestal: Benny thought Charlie Matthias was the 'man' for being a high profile bounty hunter.Big Brother Instinct: Tom, to Benny, but also to Nix, Lilah and Chong once he takes them under his wing.Big Bad: Charlie Matthias for the first book, Preacher Jack for the second, and Saint John from Flesh and Bone onwards.Beware the Living: One of the big themes of the series.Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted, Nix has a long scar going from temple to jawline.Using the journal she always carries, she regularly documents zombie behavior, biology and tactics for dealing with them. Badass Bookworm: Chong becomes this later on.In the second book,when Benny and Nix are thrust into the Zombie pits, they find out that Jack had found Charlie, (who Benny thought he killed at the end of the first one) as a zom, decked out in armor. Also Joe's dog Grimm is decked in out spiked armour and a horned helmet that's very effective at fighting zombies and cultists.The only drawback is they're brutal to wear in hot weather, but they're so useful that almost all the townfolk have some. They can easily stop a zombie bite from getting through and anyone who knows how to sew can make a good set of these.

Armor Is Useless: Averted, carpet coats are ats made from thick, strong carpet.Finally, Andrew coats his arrows with fluids from zombies and it infects Chong. It gets worse, the arrow is barbed so removing it almost kills Chong. He overkills Eve's dad with 2 arrows and then severely injures Chong in the shoulder. Brother Andrew is a deadly shot with his compound bow. Annoying Younger Sibling: Benny to Tom.Tom is this to Benny, and to most of the other bounty hunters.John who is the deadliest man in the world. Tommy is a 'talented amateur' while Joe is a veteran special ops soldier. Always Someone Better: Joe the Ranger is this to Tommy.Their relationship improves vastly by the end of the first book.

Aloof Big Brother: Tom is this from Benny's perspective at the start of the series.

Abusive Parents: Benny suspects that Zak Matthias's dad had been beating him.

IDW published a Rot & Ruin Comic Book series in 2014 to 2015.Īlso has a Webtoon comic, which you can read here. After his fifteenth birthday, he is forced to get a job and reluctantly joins Tom, with whom he has a strained relationship. Benny Imura is a teenager who lives in the town of Mountainside with his brother, Tom (a bounty hunter), and his friends. It takes place 15 years after a zombie virus spreads around the world. Rot & Ruin is a four-book series written by Jonathan Maberry.

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry