iZombie (7/10)
It's hardly great art, but it doesn't take itself too seriously, is quirky and light-hearted. It has a very comic-booky vibe, I'm guessing due to the enormous liberties they've taken with the zombie mythology, although the fact that they use comic book panels for some scene transitions probably factors in.
In this show, zombies have to eat brains, or else they lose their intelligence and become mindless like movie zombies. Once this happens, the loss of intelligence is permanent. They can also "zombie out" under certain conditions, becoming stronger, more aggressive, etc., like "fast zombies" from movies, although they haven't really established any rules about when and how they do this. They seem to be able to do it on purpose (as well as stop doing it on purpose), but they haven't really explained when and how it can be triggered against their will.
Eating brains also causes them to temporarily gain personality traits, skills, and even memories of the person the brain belonged to, but the memories only come in infrequent visions that the zombie can't control. The lead character works as a medical examiner, which is where she gets her brains from. Since many of them are murder victims, she uses the memory flashbacks to solve crimes by feeding tips to a cop who works homicide, but doesn't know she's a zombie.
Anyway, the whole thing is available for
viewing online, although I presume there are the usual copyright restrictions based on what nation you come from.
