Mmmmmmmmmarvel Zombies!

[newnumber6]

For those on my flist who aren't comic geeks, Marvel Zombies was a sort of joke concept started in the Ultimate Universe in which the heroes of the Marvel Universe (or rather an Alternate one) got infected by a zombie plague and started eating everyone else and turning some (unlike most traditional zombie stories, the zombies had their own intelligence and personality mostly, but they were driven by an unholy hunger and so couldn't stop from feeding, even on their friends or family except perhaps for a few minutes immediately after a feeding). It eventually spawned its own miniseries, spinoffs, statues, and is generally agreed to have been beaten into the ground by this point. It was very dark and occasionally gory but in some ways blackly funny.

But zombies aren't known for staying in the ground...

Somebody created a Marvel Zombies fanfilm.

It's very short, really more a teaser to an imaginary longer fanfilm (and technically speaking doesn't follow MZ canon), and extremely NSFW due to gore, and not all that funny really, but may have a certain amusement factor to Marvel fans or zombie fans just for the mere fact that it exists.

Here's a link to the fanfilm. (Watch past the credits).

Comments

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's pretty good considering the budget was $2,000. :-)

The sheer amount of stuff they have for Marvel Zombies is just staggering. Isn't there another miniseries on right now? I know I saw something at the comic book store. I wouldn't be surprised if they did a Marvel Zombies movie at some point.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's another series going on now, Marvel Zombies 2 (although it's actually the third miniseries after the initial arc within Ultimates), set about 40 years after the original when some of the zombies, after devouring pretty much all the rest of the flesh in the galaxy, return to Earth where they find there are still some survivors.

Let's see, if I recall correctly, there's:
The Ultimate Fantastic Four zombie arc (and a few issues after that that dealt with some of the individual characters)
Marvel Zombies mini
Marvel Zombies: Dark Days (one shot, set on the first days of the plague)
Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness mini (with Ash from AoD, set during the first days of the plague)
Marvel Zombies 2
an arc in Black Panther

Zombie covers of various non-zombie issues, and a book collecting just zombie covers

And statues, action figures, etc.

I'd actually be surprised if there were a real MZ film... it's hard enough to get any Marvel movies with multiple characters off the ground due to rights issues, and since this would be gory and not kid-friendly at all I don't think they could convince the film side to go for it. I could _maybe_ see them do an animated one, but even that would surprise me a bit.

[thebitterguy]

I always thought that it was cute because Marvel Zombies is what they used to call the comics readers who would read anything Marvel put out.

That was... interesting. The makeup was kinda okay, but I've seen better stuff at FoF.