Marvel Comics is really milking the shit out of this series, which has mixed it’s most popular and b-level characters with a raging world full of zombies and multi-company crossovers, once again. In April you will be able to read more about Machine Man and his continuing adventures with zombies in the five-part series Marvel Zombies 5 (aka MZ5). While the basis for this series sounds more interesting than Marvel Zombies 3 & 4, I hold my praise until reading it. Writer Fred Van Lente had this to say about the next story-arc and it’s multiverse zombie road trip vibe:

“…each issue of MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 features a variation on the zombie theme from throughout popular culture. From the slow-moving George Romero style to the crazed infected from “28 Days Later” to even the Deadites in “Evil Dead,” the writer equates the limited series to a “smorgasbord [or] salad bar for the zombie connoisseur.” But as variety is the spice of life, Van Lente decided to sweeten things up even more by also setting each issue against an assortment of backdrops.

“We’ve got zombies in the Old West, we’ve got zombies in Killraven’s War of the Worlds, we’ve got zombies in Camelot,” he exclaims. “I like the storytelling challenge of taking a straight-forward genre and twisting it into pretzels. It’s also fun to come up with new ways to eviscerate zombies.”

Read more about this “new” series here.

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