Why are they so insistent to reanimate this ip? Just in the last few 2 years there's been a fricking show announced, a novel, and a new mini which I'll link.
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Obligatory image. Speaking of, in the new mini they've actually brought back the original sentient zombie concept and went all in on the gore. It's genuinely the first MZ mini that felt at all like MZ1/MZ2. Surprised the mouse allowed it
It's very strange. I wonder if it was just Disney being desperate for more cash and allowing Marvel to do whatever they want with the Zombie stuff. Cause like in the 2010s for a long time they restricted it to only villains being depicted as Zombies (with very few hero zombies showing up), then they brought Zombie Heroes back but avoided making Spider-Man a zombie, and now they're doing Spider-Man zombie variants again and also this week's story
Not the first time Disney has touched the darkness
I know but for a long time they just had some weird restrictions
kinda jumped the shark after they ate galactus
I guess the simple answer is that it sells. People like to see superheroes placed in le ultra bleak and tragic what-if. Oh noes Spider-Man killed Aunt May.
This new mini seems to be just a zombie-themed anthology that's not related to the original story.
This is literally the only Marvel thing that I care about right now because I'm a sucker for the undead type of zombies
great cover
I like them a lot except for the most recent ones because they feel pretty watered down, the Spiderman one at the very top is my favorite, it really gives an special sense of dread
I like the subtle differences of this universe. Colonel America, the 70s costumes some heroes wear.
It was because the artist unironically did it from memory
compared to doing it from memory ironically?
Ie qthey just told him to draw the characters and he only had a mix of 60s/70s shit in his head which is why the costume eras make no sense compared to the usual marvel universe. I'm not sure if that is explicitly stated as to why cap is colonel in universe but it makes sense - MZ is a strange jumble of eras
This is from the back of omnibus 1 iirc? Dunno, but it's cool.
I think Colonel America was president at some point. He was never frozen.
The story was originally going to be about Luke Cage luring survivors to the zombies so they wouldn't eat his daughter or something. Land drew a zombified Luke in one of the ultimate fantastic four issues and Kirkman was too much of a sperg to just retcon it though so the whole timeline makes no sense compared to 616
I think that was part of what made the zombie universe unique, you had to wonder what was up with the history of that world
Others just skip over that aspect
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This was the only good thing to come out of this edgy garbage
It would have been cooler if it was Superman instead of Sentry in the beginning.
>reanimate this ip
I fricking see what you did there...
actually thinking about it did the series ever have normal zombies? it was always superheroes that got infected
they got eaten
I think in the climax of the Army of Darkness crossover the Necronomicon created a "traditional" zombie army to distract the heroes, but they might have been Deadites. I can't remember.
There was a one-off where instead it is a bunch of regular ass zombies, and Moon Girl betrays the last remnants of humanity so a kid could go be friends with Simon Garth. I think you could also somewhat count Marvel Zombies 3 and 4, whichever is the ones where Morbius tries to track down Simon and Deadpool as they spread the virus across the Flordia Keys, and the one where Machine Man and Jocasta travel into the Zombieverse to do some shit that I can't remember but it's more street level baddies that have stuck around.
>Moon Girl betrays the last remnants of humanity
It's been 3 years or so and that issue still makes me seethe. What were they thinking?
>Machine Man and Jocasta travel into the Zombieverse to do some shit that I can't remember
That's the one with A.R.M.O.R right? pretty sure they sent them to the zombieverse to help find a cure so that when the inevitable happens the people of 616 can't be infected
It was to find an uninfected human to get a DNA sample or whatever so Morbius could develop a cure. If I remember correctly they ended up finding Kingpin's wife who he was keeping around and protecting from the other zombies.
The original series kinda runs with the assumption that the Zombies ate every normal human before they could turn and that regular folks would just starve out and get killed anyways if they were zombified. I'm pretty sure later installments then went on to explain that the zombie virus is sentient and only chose to infect superheroes/supervillians
It has a weird definition of metahuman by infecting frank castle and hawkeye
yeah I think that's why they added "virus is a living thinking thing" to it to help explain those outliers like Frank,Clint and Fisk