Marvel Zombies 2 | Robert Kirkman | Marvel+Zombies=Excellent Read

Marvel Zombies 2 | Robert Kirkman | ZOMBI EHHHH? Better off dead...

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Marvel Zombies 2

	Marvel Zombies 2 Robert Kirkman Marvel Comics, 2008 - 120 pages average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Forty years have passed and the zombies have come back home after eating just about everything else in the universe. Yum yum! What awaits them back on Earth, though, is beyond anything even these shambling monstrosities could have conceived! The Marvel characters that became last year's unexpected smash hit are back and more stomach-churning than ever! Plus: At last - witness the birth of the Marvel Zombies! Kirkman and Phillips pull out all the stops as they reveal the secret story of the day the Marvel Heroes became brain-eating monsters! Want to see the Avengers eat Jarvis? You won't get that in New Avengers, effendi! Collects Marvel Zombies 2 #1-5.

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Marvel+Zombies=Excellent Read

Before I get started I would like to say this...I do not like zombies! They creep me out! With that aside though, I have to say I loved this book. It seemed like a stupid concept but, the way it was excecuted was brilliant. It would have been so easy to screw this up and make it another stupid one shot. Robert Kirkman's writing is spot on. But, in my opinion, the art is what really steals the show. Now despite the subject matter, this book actually does not have alot of blood and gore. The artist, Sean Phillips, actually uses alot of shadows and darker colors instead of bright reds. I actually find this much more effective because you have to imagine what's happening. I love Kirkman's dark humour in this book. Everytime, I see Spider-Man crying about eating Aunt May and Mary-Jane, I can't help but chuckle. All in all, I absolutley adore this book. Because of this excellent kickoff, I'm going to pick up the whole series.

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ZOMBI EHHHH? Better off dead...

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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40 Years Later

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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Venturing too far into standard fare

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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