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Holistic Guidance - Marvel Zombies
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $19.99
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
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Binding: Hardcover Comic
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785122777
ISBN: 078512277X
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 2006-09-06
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe's, an alien virus has mutated all of the world's greatest super heroes into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it - but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?! Follow their search for more food, and witness the arrival of the Silver Surfer! Collects Marvel Zombies #1-5.
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Summary: ZOMBI EHHHH? Better off dead...
Comment: Blasphemy! All your childhood heroes, reduced to braindead, psychotic, maggot-infested, sloppy soulless idiots craving human flesh. Oh joy.
I wonder with all the superhero movies coming out, the interest in the comic books had been slipping. Maybe something drastic needed to be done to rejuvinate the guys in leotards. Why not make them zombies?
Well, it's a pretty fun trip. Luckily this wastes no time with any long explanations or story development. Many of our good guys are zombified, trapped in another dimension with an insatiable craving for human flesh.
Watch an evil Spidey, Cap, Wolvie, Hulk, Thor and others try to hunt down and devour the unchanged Magneto, Silver Surfer, or whoever they can find to supress their monstrous appetite.
This book has plenty of humor mixed in with the grotesque chomping. Glossy pages, vibrant colors, outstanding artwork, and clever writing. Plenty of zombie attributes also come into play--like severed limbs or decapitations that are harmless unless the brain gets damaged.
This is a fun read, but I can't help but feel a twinge of contempt for this development. My invincible heroes, reduced to this? Plus I have concerns for the effect this will have on the future of all these characters. This series will probably get real old real quick, and I'm curious to see how they can go forward from here.
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Summary: Fun read, horrible end to the story
Comment: I loved book 1 and Dead Days, even Army of Darkness crossover. This book though, disappointed so much because of the ending. There was no real solution to the problem and the wrong people were left "alive." I feel cheated a dirty and I hope Marvel has some more side story projects, especially the one about what happens to Ultimate universe Dr. Doom. They left his story wide open.
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Summary: Venturing too far into standard fare
Comment: While we do have the Marvel Zombies, it feels as if this book is moving them more towards standard comic book fare. By the end, the zombies are no longer the crazy, conflicted, and generally funny group of super heroes gone wrong. They essentially become immortal, cyborg versions of themselves.
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Summary: 40 Years Later
Comment: At the end of Marvel Zombies 2 in a short afterward paragraph, Writer Robert Kirkman refers to his Marvel Zombies creation as "a kooky idea". Indeed, if you've not read any of the series, and you've stumbled across this product, you're probably saying more colorful things than `kooky' as you try to even consider this as a serious purchase. But I assure you that if you're a fan of the Marvel Universe (and you like a good zombie story), you'll find the Marvel Zombies series a terrific, enjoyably quick read.
Marvel Zombies was one of the more pleasant surprises that I've come across in long long while. Kirkman, who also happens to be the creator of the absolutely fabulous Walking Dead series (The Walking Dead Book 1, The Walking Dead, Book 2, The Walking Dead Book 3, The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before & The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made To Suffer), knows how to do a zombie story. And he does the Marvel Zombies series just as well as he does the aforementioned Walking Dead series.
Marvel Zombies 2 picks up 40 years after the last page of the original Marvel Zombies. The Marvel Zombies are in a bit of a crisis: they've devoured every source of food that they know of. On Earth, Black Panther is the leader of what's left of any semblance of civilization, and the Marvel Zombies want to make a meal out of any survivors.
Marvel Zombies 2 is as well-written as the original, but the series may be losing its steam (and enough super-heroes to keep the series going!). I thoroughly enjoyed Marvel Zombies 2, and Marvel Zombies 2 is a must for anyone that's read the original. However, for the best chronology and continuity, before getting into Marvel Zombies 2, I'd suggest reading Marvel Zombies first, then the Marvel Zombies: Dead Days prequel / story arc collection.
(And don't miss the other very well done story arc prequel: Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness where some real "Ash" kickin' gets done!)
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Summary: This was fun...! A 3.5, maybe?
Comment: This was a fun book - where the first series was a giddy splatterfest, this second story arc takes the premise more seriously and has the super-zombies returning to Earth in search of a trans-dimensional portal so that they can find another universe to feast on. There they encounter the remnants of Earth's population, including several super-survivors, and thus the race is on. Kirkman does some interesting stuff combining super-prosthetic technology with the whole can't-kill-'em premise, and for fans of the superhero and zombie genres this remains a highly entertaining book. Several characters - Wolverine, Ororo - remain little more than walking furniture in this volume, but it's hard to complain about weak characterization in a book where the main point is to see how hard it is to kill the participants. Not great literature, but funny and fun. (ReadThatAgain book reviews)
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