Showing posts with label apocalypse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apocalypse. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics YEAR ZERO

A new epic that offers a global look at a pandemic-created Zombie Apocalypse...
 ..from the perspectives of...
A Japanese hitman...
A Mexican street urchin...
An Afghan military aide...
A Polar research scientist...
A Midwestern American survivalist...
Five survivors of a horrific epidemic who must draw upon their unique skills and instincts to survive on a planet filled with shambling undead.
Created by Ben Percy (Wolverine) and Ramon Rosanas (Star Wars: Age of Resistance), Year Zero wrestles with weighty moral and theological questions posed by the pandemic such as "who do you think is worth saving...and what happens when you don't think they're worth the risk to yourself" and investigates the plague's cause and a possible cure!
Note: Though it's from the same publisher as Resistance, it's not a "shared universe" title, but a standalone series!
Sort of like how the 1950s books Atomic War and World War III were from the same publisher and featured the same basic premise, but went off in different directions!
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

It's 2020, and the Dinosaurs are About to Return...

...according to the sadly OOP series Xenozoic Tales!
Why hasn't this series, which combined the apocalypse, classic cars, and prehistoric monsters along with excellent writing and art, ever been a multi-media, mass-market favorite like Walking Dead or Game of Thrones?
How did all this come about?
This video (ironically, from the video game) explains quite succinctly how in 2020 the world we know will end!

Plotwise and chronologically, this story from Kitchen Sink's Xenozoic Tales #1 (1987), written and illustrated by Mark Schultz, is the first story in the series, featuring Hannah Dundee's introduction to the people of the City in the Sea.
Note: A tale (entitled "Xenozoic") introducing the series to the public, but published a couple of years earlier in Kitchen Sink's Death Rattle #8 (1985) takes place after this story.
When the entire series was reprinted in story-chronological order in Dark Horse hardcovers in 2003, the Death Rattle tale was placed between two stories in Xenozoic Tales #2.
The comic inspired a video game and well-done, but short-lived, animated TV series.
Despite those successes, it still has yet to hit the public consciousness the way other graphic novel properties have.
Perhaps now's the time to revive it?
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