Marvel Zombies 3 # 1 -
is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 12 / / 2008Plot Summary
Board up Avengers Tower! Lock down the Baxter Building! The ravenous hordes of Marvel Zombies are invading ... the Marvel Universe! That's right, the next chapter of the MZ saga is a non-stop in-continuity gorefest with major implications for at least one Marvel hero! When the super-undead stumble into the MU from the Man-Thing's Nexus of All Realities, all of Florida is quarantined against the zombie plague. Time is quickly running out for a cure, so the Initiative sends a most unlikely group of heroes into the Zombieverse on a desperate mission to find the one item they need before the whole MU is consumed!
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The Command consisting of Aquarian, Conquistador, Jennifer Kale, and Siege are prowling Citrusville Florida at the Swamp Monster Tour grounds. They got reports of zombies in the area including one in a costume. The Command stumbles at the zombie area and all of a sudden a zombie bits Siege in the face. The other Zombies then tear Conquistador's body apart. All of a sudden the zombie version of Deadpool pops out, injuring Jennifer Kale's arms to prevent her from using magic and bites Aquarian on the neck. Jennifer Kale turns on a giant propeller and signals to Aquarian, whom then blasts Deadpool into it which slices him in many pieces. After that Aquarian shields himself as he puts himself into suspended animation to try to purge the infection. The zombie Siege then tries to eat Jennifer Kale but Siege's mechanical body turns on him and destroys his head.
Elsewhere a zombie leaves the swamp only to be killed by Man-Thing.
At A.R.M.O.R. Morbius has become the head scientist. He gets a message from zombie Deadpool and claims that Deadpool lead the Command to the swamp as a trap and that Deadpool or the virus as entered the real world and wants to spread the zombie virus to super humans in order to spread faster. At this point Morbius is trying to find a cure for the zombie virus that came from the zombie dimension which Deadpool escaped from, but he needs blood from a non-bitten person from that dimension to make the cure work.
A.R.M.O.R. director Charles Little Sky then gets Machine Man and Jocasta(who haven't seen each other since they defeated Ulton with the Thing), and both of them transport to the zombie dimension to get the blood they need.
Morbius then goes into a hidden room in the lab. In the lab is the real Morbius beaten up, bound, and being injected with an anticoagulant. The other Morbius turns out to be the zombie version of Morbius who is undercover.
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Pleasently Suprised!
Reviewed by Blue_Shield on Oct. 13, 2008. Blue_Shield has written 12 reviews. His/her last review was for Kill Spider-Man. 4 out of 4 users recommend his reviews. |
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As stated above, I was pleasently surprised by this issue. Hold on to your hats, but before this issue, I had yet to read any of the previous Marvel Zombies titles. Despite the rabid reviews by critics and fans alike, I just couldn't bring myself to pick up a copy. So what compelled me this time around? Machine Man and Jocasta. I am a huge fan of obscure characters, of which this issue has plenty. Right off the bat, we are introduced to The Initiative' Florida based group The Command. The Command consists of former Deathlok ally/enemy Siege(group leader), sorceress Jennifer Kale, and fellow 70s' cast off Aquarian(sometimes called Wundarr), with new arrival the Conquistador.
The team answers a call of superhuman problems during a local swamp tour, but find no survivors, save one. Suprise it's a zombie! And before Siege can finish saying that they're going to help her, she's snackin' on his cheek. The $#!+ really hits the fan, when zombie Deadpool, the merc with half a moiuth shows up. 'Pool showing concern that Kale is a magic user goes right for her. Aquarian gets bit, with the zombie Deadpool saying "MMMM! October 1973! YUMM!" (note: Aquarian debuted in Oct. 1973) shortly before 'Pool gets sent into the blade of a swamp boat. The Conquistador is literally torn limb from limb. And Siege shuts down after his cyborg parts recognize his biological side dead.
After the the encounter, the survivors are taken to A.R.M.O.R. 's HQ, and we find Morbius and Charles Little Sky(formerly the Darkhawk foe Portal) as the head of the organization. Machine Man is brought in because they need a pure sample of the zombies from there earth and Machine Man can not be infected. After he says no, they reveal that Jocasta will be going with or without him. Aaron decides to go with her, given their history together. At issues end we find out that the Morbius we see in the issue, is actually a zombie Morbius in disguise.
Bottom line, this was a fun issue. Fred Van Lente shows his knowledge of the characters in the series, with good mix of action, humor, and twists. I have never been that taken with Kev Walker's art in the past, but it works extremely well for this series. I would definitely recommend this issue, and can't wait for the next issue.
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