Marvel Zombies 2 # 1 - Part 1 of 5

Issues starts out with the Cosmic Zombies, a.k.a Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Hulk, Henry Pym, Thanos, Gladiator, Phoenix, Wolverine, Iron Man and Firelord, floating through the galaxy that they've consumed living creature in the galaxy. Hulk kills Thanos after an argument over food.

On Earth, I mysterious boy is wandering through a city and stumbles upon Hawkeye's zombified head, who seems to have no hunger for flesh. He takes the head to New Wakanda which is located in old New York city. New Wakanda is ruled by an aged Black Panther.

Scene cuts back to the Cosmic Zombies who are devouring Ego the Living Planet.

Scene cuts back to a mysterious man who is leading a band of rebels who disagree with Panther. While T'Challa is sleeping, he is stabbed and is mortally wounded. The Wasp has no choice but to infect Panther so he can live. The issues ends with Panther's room covered in the assassin's blood and the zombies floating towards Earth.

Marvel Zombies 2 is a definet buy.

The man who got the whole Zombie craze going, Robert Kirkman nails its again with Marvel Zombies 2 #1!

Now I read a review somewhere that claimed this ish was short sighted in that (Slight spoiler coming up here!) the Wasp figures out the reality of being a Zombie better than the Galacti-Zombies in space.

I think what that reviewer missed was that the difference between the 2 characters is Janet hasn't eaten flesh for 40 years while Tony and crew just finished eating the majority of the frikken universe!

I adored the handling of Hawkeye, and as usual Kirkmans ending was unexpected and left me dying to see more!

My favorite moment in the ish?

Firelord trying to tell Gladiator not to eat that recently killed Zombie with no lower jaw: "glk" or somesuch.

Kirkman you big chubby son of a gun, you know how to write them there comic books!

And that artist fella Sean Phillips produces a well told story every time!

(in most frothey drooly fanboy voice imaginable):

Can't

Wait

For Issue 2.

The immense popularity of the first Marvel Zombies series has finally led to the inevitable sequel. I'm a big fan of the original, but here it seems like Kirkman and company have forgotten what made the first series so much fun. The issue starts off well, giving us more hilarious banter between the zombified Marvel heroes and villains, but from there it all goes downhill as the narrative dives into a boring subplot involving the last surviving humans, and the coming rebellion that threatens to tear what's left of them apart. We don't get to see much of the zombies again until the last few pages. I realize Kirkman needs to set the stage here, but having the zombies absent for half the issue is inexcusable. The reason why the first series worked so well was because the zombies were the protagonists, but here they're the threat. And while the last few pages offered some intriguing story developments, one can't help but feel that Marvel should have left this universe alone a long time ago.