Marvel Zombies brings us something new - zombies who are not mindless, but are still enslaved.Technically this isn't true although I love the first couple Marvel Zombie series. The idea of zombies working this way was definitely popularized in Return of the Living Dead and its subsequent sequels. (possibly created but to be honest although reasonably well-versed in zombie movies I don't know for sure this was the first instance). In that series the dead can talk and reason but experience intense pain from being dead and feeding on the brains of humans offer them a brief respite from the pain. It was never explored but from the movies it would make sense that should a zombie have access to a steady supply of brains they could possibly almost live a normal life.
Zombies in comics are definitely becoming overplayed, especially the ones that focus on the survivors just killing the zombies. As was stated many times before, The Walking Dead does an amazing job of focusing on the human interactions, zombies are not the focus of the story and that's what keeps it from falling victim to the same thing that plagues other zombie stories.
Looking bad I think the only other zombie comic other than The Walking Dead or Marvel Zombies I liked was Warren Ellis's Blackgas and even then mostly just for the insane level of violence. Plus it's short.
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