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Zadzooks: Comic book reviews, Marvel Zombies Return, Emily the Strange ... - Washington Times

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:04 PM PDT

By Joseph Szadkowski

This chronic feature lets me review what recently has passed my bloodshot eyes. So pull up a chair, break out the sarcasm filter and welcome to Mr. Zad's Halloween comic critique:

Marvel Zombies 4, nos. 1 to 4 and Marvel Zombies Return, nos. 1 and 2 (Marvel Publishing, $3.99 each) - Sequential-art readers' insatiable appetite for the dining habits of the undead continues to fuel a five-year-old zombified Marvel universe.

The latest limited series continue the ghoulish trend of mixing a high level of disgusting visuals with a variety of infected heroes and villains.

Soon to be compiled in hardcover ($19.99) is the fourth limited series starring the new version of the Midnight Sons. The B-list roster of Morbius the vampire, Werewolf by Night Jack Russell, Son of Satan Damion Hellstorm, sorceress Jennifer Kale and the Man-Thing work as a team for A.R.M.O.R. (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response).

The monstrous squad finds themselves not only battling flesh-eating hordes of Fish-men led by Piranha, but also Dormammu, the Hood and an airborne plague of death unintentionally set loose by Morbius.

Writer Fred Van Lente picks up from his work on Marvel Zombies 3 with a winning story mixing the serious and often complex side of stopping flesh-eaters with plenty of humor. Most of the laughs come from the bodiless, decomposing - but constantly talking - head of Deadpool, carried around by Marvel's original zombie, Simon Garth.

I could, however, do without the some of the heavy-handed dialogue, especially between Son of Satan and his fiery relative Dormammu.

Artist Kev Walker delivers the interior art, not as graphic as that seen in other Marvel Zombie series, but he manages to saturate plenty of panels with blood and entrails.

Much more amusing and repulsive is Marvel Zombies Return. Continuing the story line from the second limited series, we learn about the zombified versions of Spider-Man, Giant Man, Wolverine, Hulk and the Avengers teleported to alternate universes.

Each of the five one-shot issues stars some of the characters with plenty of body-part-munching opportunities.

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