Someday Trade: Marvel Zombies

Marvel Zombies 3 written by Fred Van Lente, art by Kev Walker, colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu, letters by Rus Wooten

The original concept for Marvel Zombies was simple enough. An alternate version of the Marvel universe that underwent a zombie apocalypse. Where the world is infected by a Hunger Virus that creates flesh hungry undead. Ones still capable of reason and what not. And if you wonder how invulnrebility or healing factors or already being undead aren't effective at resisting being infected? Well its hand-waved away with "because zombies, thats why". Marvel put out three series all written by Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman. Plus a Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness mini-series. And I fucking hated all of them. I mean one of them ends with super-zombies eating Galactus and becoming Cosmic Super-Zombies. Ugh...

But then Marvel handed the concept over to Fred Van Lente who has written some of the better comics out there, both for Marvel and on his own. And he went with an attempted invasion of regular Marvel Earth by Zombie Marvel Earth. And brought in Aaron "Machine Man" Stack as the major protaganist. Recruited by A.R.M.O.R. (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response). And then just made it all work. It still has its moments of "Oh Come On!" for me. Like why Ghost Rider is now a zombie. Seriously, how do you infect a flaming skeleton with a virus? But despite that Van Lente keeps up the pace so that the story just moves past it. And Kev Walker can draw some hella icky looking super-zombies...