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“I’m not sure if his new status quo is using the template Ellis set up for him and putting him in less absurd situations”

Yes, that’s pretty much it.

Zombies are ridiculous.

I’m actually quite surprised by the art. I’m pretty sure that this is the same Kev Walker who does painted artwork for Magic: The Gathering cards, and maybe it’s the lack of paint involved but his work seems almost comepletely different. It’s still pretty good and fits the series quite well, but based off of his painting (and yes, the linework and style and not just the painting technique involved), I was expecting the next Steve McNiven or J.G. Jones or something here.

Great first issue though even though you basically know what happened if you’ve followed all the interviews closely, but I really like this series better than Kirkman’s original two already.

Well, A Morbius is a zombie vampire. Van Lente was careful to leave “our” Morbius still around.

In fact, when I opened this book, it seemed designed for a slaughter of minor heroes, a la…well, lots of different comics, but then I thought to myself, “Van Lente is too cool to kill off Aquarian or Jennifer Kale,” and what do you know – the guy manages to do a slaughter without killing off the two vaguely cool characters in the book.

That’s very cool of him.

Now that I’m reminded of it, wow, besides the strong Sean Phillips artwork, Marvel Zombies 2 was pretty dreadful, wasn’t it?

It was like “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure” – a sequel to something that shouldn’t have had a sequel, and it shows.

This is basically a brand-new story.

Yeah, all of that is true. Even I was happy he didn’t kill Kale and Space Hippie, since I was aware of them and all and that would have been too predictable.

Brian, so true, Marvel Zombies 2 was terrible. It felt like such a forced sequel to a series that was decent at best to begin with, or in other words your Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. I didn’t even see what the big deal about MZ1 was either, but all the zombie inspired covers since the series start has been pretty cool though.

MZ1 has an implicit promise of dark humor and a continuity that wouldn’t drag forever. That’s quite some value for the dollar in these days. I guess that’s why it sold well.

Yeah, MZ1 was fine. But beyond just a continuity that wouldn’t drag on, it had an actual real ending!

So to see it then followed by a sequel is disheartening.

isn’t that Machine Man’s thing, that he’s always had a crush on Jocasta? i’m not saying i read the classic Machine Man comics (yet!)… but i did read Jocasta’s entry on Wikipedia last week and it had all this Machine Man stuff in it.

Morbius isn’t a vampire. He’s a superhuman with vampire-like qualities. Heck, his sub-monkier is “The Living Vampire,” indicating that he’s not–and never has been–undead.

I have some vague memories of a Siege character being created by Steve Gerber in some Spidey/DD crossover in the 1970s.

This story is NOT happening, as far as I’m concerned. I just loathe the whole MARVEL ZOMBIES concept so much, I’m applying (for the FIRST time ever) my own personal dis-continuity (the way many fans decided that Gwen sleeping with Norman Osborn never happened, period). The FF’s encounter with the Zombies also didn’t happen. That was Nightmare messing with their minds or something. (Hey, if that worked as an excuse to write offr an ENTIRE run on the Hulk’s comic….)

Btw, Machine Man has had a thing for Jocasta since they met in an issue of Marvel Two-in-One (MM and the Thing vs. Ultron.) This story also featured what may be the most “duh” moment in Ultron’s career: being defeated BECAUSE of his big mouth (literally- MM reached inside him THROUGH HIS MOUTH and yanked some stuff out, causing Ultron to explode.) I always wondered when somebody would take advantage of that ridiculous design flaw on his indestructible armor’s design. (Along those lines, WHEN will Batman get shot in the lower face? Not that I WANT that to happen, but come on, so much for bulletproof Bat-costumes…)

Why would someone have to justify the non-existence of something they didn’t like?

So, can you actually explain why it’s so bad? The only Zombie things I’ve read were the UFF and FF arcs, and those were cool.

yeah that would be totally interesting if bats got his face blown off in gen-x-chamber style. or maybe bruce is actually coated in clear, flexible teflon and we just didn’t know it…

I’d love to see “Mister” Machine, Jocasta, The Vision, The Jim Hammond Human Torch and maybe Deathlok and H.E.R.B.I.E. get together for a “Robotic Avengers” or “Heavy Metal Avengers” mini series. Perhaps Ultron would get “The Awesome Android”, The (Asgardian) Destroyer, The Super Adaptoid, a Sentry, a Sentinel and a Nick Fury LMD together as the antogonists.

“I really like this series better than Kirkman’s original two already.”

Pretty much every page…every panel…every moment…in this first chapter alone trumps EVERYTHING that happened in that borderline-unreadable Black Panther crossover and the about-as-thoroughly wretched second mini. I’ll admit to going in with kinda low expectations after suffering through all of that, but I really, really dug MZ3 #1.

“I’d love to see “Mister” Machine, Jocasta, The Vision, The Jim Hammond Human Torch and maybe Deathlok and H.E.R.B.I.E. get together for a “Robotic Avengers” or “Heavy Metal Avengers” mini series. Perhaps Ultron would get “The Awesome Android”, The (Asgardian) Destroyer, The Super Adaptoid, a Sentry, a Sentinel and a Nick Fury LMD together as the antogonists.”

I think they did just that in an issue of the 1990′s Deathlok series. I forget who was on this team (surely not H.E.R.B.I.E, but Jocasta and maybe MM were there), but it was all cybernetic and/or robotic guys banding together for that story arc’s threat, whatever it was…
-r-

I went into this series with the notion that MZ3 will be a quick read, blood and guts, brains spewing out of everyone’s heads.. but I was wrong! This series has substance! Go Fred! Can’t wait for ish #2!

I just read issue 2, and i must admit this is way much better than that rippoff marvel zombies 2.
I like that fact kingpin is in it, altough he is 100 % muscle he is human, and the urge to protect his wifey
and then finds a Bussinesway to clone people and make every zombie superhero depented on him works for me. Curious how this will end.. Because, I like the way this is going