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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785125457
ISBN number: 0785125450
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 120
Printing Date: July 09, 2008
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 4506
Studio: Marvel Comics
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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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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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This was a fun book - where the very 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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Im a huge fan of the series. Now this isnt as good as the very first series but damn close to it. We see the 6 surviving Marvel Zombies (Giant Man, Spiderman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Hulk and Luke Cage) now known as the Glactus (after eating the original) and they are now joined by zombified Pheonix aka Jean Grey, Thanos, Firelord and Shi'ar warrior Gladiator. It turns out in the last 40 years since the last series. The Marvel zombies have ate everyone in the universe.
We ate everything!
But it turns out that some humans survived on earth including Blank Panther, Forge, Magneto's accolytes and a bunch of other people. But they have cured zombies (didnt eat flesh for years) Wasp and Hawkeye (both are just heads attached to robotic bodies). Now the zombies return to earth for a teleportion device seen on Ultimate Fantastic 4 issues, and MZ dead days. But they find food and its now a human vs zombies civil war.
Great comic, read it
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I had to write a review on this....I felt that the very first MZ book was hysterically funny, and should have been left with just those stories. Dead Days was actually very good as well, with the Army Of Darkness spin-off rounding off an already tired storyline.
This story should have been much more solid, but I can only deduce that Mr. Suydam's artwork is what kept this series going....because Mr. Kirkman seemed to have run out of ideas. I gave this three stars because although the beginning is interesting, the end is atrocious; horribly cliched dialogue and an overall feeling of disappointment. I recommend all the volumes for collectors, but really, this series needs to end with this; even if there is a possibility of dragging out another story, enough is enough.
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Last time we saw these Marvel superhero zombies, they've gained cosmic powers (thanks to having munched on Galactus) and had left Earth, hungry and craving yet more living flesh. And, forty years later, the zombies have eaten all sentient life in the universe. After several "What now?" moments, zombie Giant Man comes up with the brainstorm of returning to Earth to activate Reed Richards' otherdimensional transporter, thus giving them acess to more "food." But Earth, it turns out, isn't completely devoid of intelligent life. A tiny band of humanity, led by an aged Black Panther, still clings on, and these survivors aim to put up resistance...
So, I totally savored the original MARVEL ZOMBIES series, not to mention the Ultimate Fantastic Four related stories which preceded it. I thought Marvel Zombies HC (Iron Man Cover) was delightfully demented, refreshingly irreverent, and oozed with a ballsy attitude. I had a lot of fun reading it, passengering Kirkman's wildly careening ride of a series. Then this one comes along.
This trade, MARVEL ZOMBIES 2, collects issues #1-5 of the second mini-series. Sean Phillips is again solid with the interior artwork (although, this time, his stuff does seem more rushed), while Arthur Suydam's always awesome cover paintings continue to be an eyeballing treat (as well as tongue-in-cheek nods to famous comic book covers). Oh, man, but the story...
Maybe this Marvel Zombie mania can be mined for only so long. We've already had the MARVEL ZOMBIES: DEAD DAYS one-shot and Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness limited series, all good stuff. But MARVEL ZOMBIES 2 isn't quite as good. I think, for me, it's partly because I'm not that big a fan of the Wasp or the Black Panther, and they're central characters here. And the power play subplot involving T'Challa and Malcolm Cortez, son of Fabian Cortez, is just dreary. Plus, writer Robert Kirkman loses some originality points by having another character get the top of his skull sliced off, brain bits dutifully dribbling out (yes, this one is as violent and gory, good thing). Kirkman gets more earnest with the plotting and the character development, but, I dunno, the story comes off as dull; it just didn't draw me in. The ending, which is unsatisfying and fizzles out, does leave an opening for more Marvel Zombies stories. I guess I'm glad.
For me, a huge part of the fun was in seeing iconic superheroes get chomped on and then twisted into immoral, ravenous, undead versions of themselves. But, here, Kirkman switches it up and tries to revert some of these nasties into their former do-gooding selves. And, somewhere along the way, that sense of crazy fun evaporates. As a reader, the last thing I wanted to see was redemption for the zombies. One of the zombies who regains a conscience happens to be my all-time favorite superhero (Okay, it's Spidey), and I actually begrudged the fact that he was chosen to be again a good guy. It just seems to undermine that audacious, anarchic touch which MARVEL ZOMBIES had so gleefully pulled off.
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