Saturday, June 05, 2021

Scott's Take: Marvel Zombies Resurrection by Phillip Kennedy Johnson


Marvel Zombies Resurrection by Phillip Kennedy Johnson collects the prequel 2019 tale and the 2020 issues. In the prequel, the world ends and falls to the undead. The main heroes of the X-men, Avengers, and the Fantastic Four, answer a distress call from Captain Marvel who is off planet and needs help. This story features heroes such as Magneto, Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and others.

 

There is a distinct difference in the cast of the first tale vs the second. The second tales focuses on Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four kids trying to survive in the new world. Along the journey, they are joined by other survivors who must not be named here as doing so would ruin the read.

 


This book features a wide variety of characters. While most of the heroes become infected, there are quite a few surprises as some survive despite the long odds against it. This book is action packed with plenty of horror. It does require some reader suspension of disbelief as the prequel makes the main heroes of the Marvel Universe to be amazingly stupid to work. Like going to the abandoned warehouse at two in the morning to meet somebody and never taking your gun with you kind of stupidity. Deadpool is also not in the book—at all-- despite appearing on the cover. I also wish there had been more discussion and explanation of events that happened in the large time gap between the two tales. Instead, those events are mostly glossed over and just barely mentioned at different points.

 

This book is good, but clearly suffers from being a miniseries and not being fully developed. 

 

 

Marvel Zombies Resurrection

Phillip Kennedy Johnson

https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/13750/phillip_kennedy_johnson

Marvel Comics

https://www.marvel.com/comics/collection/82637/marvel_zombies_resurrection_trade_paperback

February 2021

ISBN#: 978-1-302-92440-9

Paperback (eBook available)

152 Pages

 

 

My reading copy came from the Central Branch aka Downtown Branch of the Dallas Public Library System. 

 

Scott A. Tipple ©2021

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