Marvel Zombies: Dead Days [Paperback]

Greg Land (Illustrator), Mitch Breitweiser (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Marvel Zombies | Publication Date: January 21, 2009

At last - experience the birth of the Marvel Zombies as told by the creative team of the best-selling limited series, and then witness their rise as they attempt to slake their hunger across two universes! First, Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips pull out all the stops as they reveal the secret story of the day the Marvel Heroes became brain-eating monsters! Next, follow the Marvel Zombies into the pages of Mark Millar and Greg Land's Ultimate Fantastic Four! Reed Richards has used his scientific genius to contact an Earth in a surprisingly familiar parallel dimension - and he's ready to visit! But nothing could have prepared him for the world he's about to enter! Finally, get out the hot sauce, True Believer - it's slobberin' time! In Reginald Hudlin and Francis Portela's Black Panther, the mainstream Marvel Universe's New Fantastic Four just made a wrong turn on the dimensional super highway - and they've landed in the middle of Zombie-verse! And if that weren't bad enough, they've parked their butts on that universe's Skrull Planet! Collects Marvel Zombies: Dead Days, Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-23, #30-32, and Black Panther #28-30.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (January 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785135634
• ISBN-13: 978-0785135630
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.5 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Kirkman is a New York Times bestselling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. He maintains one prerogative in every undertaking: quality. It is Kirkman's belief that good people who produce good writing and good ideas make comics people love. Kirkman was recently made partner at Image Comics, and continues to revive the industry with refreshing new characters. AMC is adapting his bestselling series, The Walking Dead, into a TV series (set to debut in October 2010), and his books are among the most popular on the iPhone and iPad's "Comics" app.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dead days of old, August 5, 2011

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lisaokapi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marvel Zombies: Dead Days (Paperback)

This wonderful trade paperback covers the Dead Days one-shot plus the zombies' appearances in the Ultimate Fantastic Four issues #21-23 and #30-32 along with their appearances in the Black Panther #28-30. This book basically tells what happens before the Marvel Zombies series and gives a very good backstory to it all. The one-shot Dead Days is the first in the book. It tells of the last survivors in the zombie universe and how Magneto helped everyone to fight off the super-powered monsters until they were seemingly over-run. It also sets up the Fantastic Four issues as well showing the zombified Fantastic Four trying to make their way to another universe full of fleshy morsels.

The Fantastic Four issues show how the zombified Fantastic Four trick the Ultimate Reed into heading to the zombie universe and having him saved by the rest of the Ultimate Four crew and, in doing so, trap the Zombie Four into the Ultimate universe where all hell breaks loose as the Zombie Four cause havoc even though they're "contained." Things are not made easier by Doctor Doom when he inflicts Johnny with a deadly Earth-threatening parasite and requires a mind-swap with Richards in order to stop it and ultimately, to save the world not only from the parasite, but from possible zombie take-over!

Next up is the Black Panther issues which basically continue from where the Marvel Zombies 1 TPB left off. A group of superhero zombies that include Iron Man, Wolverine, Giant Man, Spider-Man, and others, have obtained the power cosmic from Galactus and are using it to devour worlds and find themselves at the Skrulls' home planet; along with the Black Panther, Storm, The Thing, and the Human Torch! When the zombies devour most of the planet's population and decide to make the planet itself implode, the team of non-infected super heroes must find a way to get off the doomed rock-of-a-planet and escape the impending doom that the cosmic zombies are inflicting!

This TPB is fantastic and goes hand-in-hand with the other Marvel Zombies TPBs. The artwork is gory and fantastic and the writing (especially the bickering between Iron Man and Luke Cage) is very well done and enjoyable all the way through. The zombies' dialogue is written in a unique way that really fits the story and will make you laugh as well. I enjoyed reading this all the way through and will definitely be picking up Marvel Zombies 2 to see how this all plays out!

Overall Rating: 8 out of 10 stars

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great story, July 11, 2009

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vsv-steve "vsv-steve" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marvel Zombies: Dead Days (Paperback)

great collection of one of the most original mainstream marvel offerings in a while. highly recommended. if you're interested in the marvel zombie hype, start here.

5.0 out of 5 stars review, August 3, 2011

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alec - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marvel Zombies: Dead Days (Paperback)

Marvel does it again with this graphic novel. While I would not pay the retail price at a store, it is worth reading and can be found at little cost on amazon.