Marvel Zombies: Evil Evolution *Spoilers*

[ResIpsaLoquitur]

I picked it up. It's basically a continuation of the Marvel Apes saga that really just guest-stars the zombies.

Spoilers for those who can't wait....

Yes, these are THE Marvel Zombies from the series of the same name. The story starts in the zombieverse shortly after "Dead Days." Zombie Giant-Man and Wasp discover the Ape-verse (as seen in the previous Apes specials) and take a trip these for an ape snack. We later learn that the Prime Eight (thanks for NOT publishing this, Marvel!) scared them back to their dimension.

What's more, the Ape-vengers are now leading a pre-emptive strike into the zombieverse to get the zombies before they get the Apes. There's heavy casualties on both sides. Zombie Reed-Richards is decapitated, but still mobile: he's using his remaining organs as tendrils in some grotesquely funny scenes. He teams up with the Gibbon, Gorilla Girl, Ape-X, Speedball, Spider-Monkey, and the rest of the characters to undo this mess. It turns out zombie Reed doesn't like being decapitated, and wants to alter history so that the Ape and Zombie universe never meet.

Long story short: the team is successful. History is changed so that the Apes never found Speedball back in the Speedball special, so the zombies never discover either universe. However, Gorilla Girl had to sacrifice herself to change history, so she's apparently ceased to exist. Also, in a scene that makes little sense, it's implied that zombie Reed's dimensional portal had something to do with bringing the infection to his Earth.

Not a bad wrap up to the Ape saga, and kind of a last hurrah for the zombies after the end of Marvel Zombies Return. However, three different artists are used in the story, so the constant change in style is kind of jarring. And as I said above, the ending doesn't make much sense in light of what we know from past Marvel Zombies series.

[theflyingfrogunderdog]

Zombies is such a tired subject, now.

[theflyingfrogunderdog]

It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't so many zombie movies that have already been made. Marvel entered into the Zombie genre a few years too late.

[Nyssane]

Zombie Squirrel Girl and Zombie Captain Rectitude were my faves.

[Knightmare10880]

Originally Posted by ResIpsaLoquitur

I picked it up. It's basically a continuation of the Marvel Apes saga that really just guest-stars the zombies.

Spoilers for those who can't wait....

Yes, these are THE Marvel Zombies from the series of the same name. The story starts in the zombieverse shortly after "Dead Days." Zombie Giant-Man and Wasp discover the Ape-verse (as seen in the previous Apes specials) and take a trip these for an ape snack. We later learn that the Prime Eight (thanks for NOT publishing this, Marvel!) scared them back to their dimension.

What's more, the Ape-vengers are now leading a pre-emptive strike into the zombieverse to get the zombies before they get the Apes. There's heavy casualties on both sides. Zombie Reed-Richards is decapitated, but still mobile: he's using his remaining organs as tendrils in some grotesquely funny scenes. He teams up with the Gibbon, Gorilla Girl, Ape-X, Speedball, Spider-Monkey, and the rest of the characters to undo this mess. It turns out zombie Reed doesn't like being decapitated, and wants to alter history so that the Ape and Zombie universe never meet.

Long story short: the team is successful. History is changed so that the Apes never found Speedball back in the Speedball special, so the zombies never discover either universe. However, Gorilla Girl had to sacrifice herself to change history, so she's apparently ceased to exist. Also, in a scene that makes little sense, it's implied that zombie Reed's dimensional portal had something to do with bringing the infection to his Earth.

Not a bad wrap up to the Ape saga, and kind of a last hurrah for the zombies after the end of Marvel Zombies Return. However, three different artists are used in the story, so the constant change in style is kind of jarring. And as I said above, the ending doesn't make much sense in light of what we know from past Marvel Zombies series.

I really enjoyed this since I'm a big Marvel Zombies fan and seem to be one of the few actual Marvel Apes fans out there, and I thought about the ending of the story and discussed it with my brother who is also a Marvel Zombies fan.

Here's the theory that I came up with

I think that Zombievere's Reed activated his dimensional portal at the exact same time that the Watcher zapped the Zombie Sentry "back in time" so that the virus would feed on itself. And that allowed the Zombie Sentry to get into the original zombieverse.

Also I loved Zombie Doctor Doom's reaction to what type of primate he is in the Apeverse.

Overall I enjoyed this one-shot and if this is the end to both the Zombies and Apes then it's a pretty good one. Although I don't think that the Marvel Apes concept ever got to reach it's potential.

[Evil-Spidey]

Anyone know where this will be collected? It wasn't in the Marvel Apes Evolution Start Here TPB and it won't be in the Marvel Zombies The Return one where i think they should collect it.

[ThunderWolf!!!]

Originally Posted by Evil-Spidey

Anyone know where this will be collected? It wasn't in the Marvel Apes Evolution Start Here TPB and it won't be in the Marvel Zombies The Return one where i think they should collect it.

I am hoping for Marvel Zombies/Apes Omnibus.Too bad it won't happen.

[Ite]

Marvel Zombies 3 was awesome, but 4 was blah, and The Return was absolutely awful, i'm giving up on the Zombies series.

[Sean Walsh]

Originally Posted by theflyingfrogunderdog

Zombies is such a tired subject, now.

Funny. I thought the same thing of this ape infatuation Marvel seems to have even before I finished reading the original MARVEL APES mini...

[HulkSmash!]

Did this issue take place after the aborted Prime Eight special, or in place of, or was this that material recycled? I keep hearing the special made it online on the Digital Comics. Was it in the recent Marvel Apes TPB? Color me confused...

~G.

[Whitster]

I was kind of lost in this issue by not having read Prime Eight. I just figured I'd missed it or my LCS had sold out, but it looks like it never arrived judging by the comments on here.

[strathcona]

Originally Posted by HulkSmash!

Did this issue take place after the aborted Prime Eight special, or in place of, or was this that material recycled? I keep hearing the special made it online on the Digital Comics. Was it in the recent Marvel Apes TPB? Color me confused...

~G.

It took place after Prime Eight. Prime Eight was only released online of in the TPB. I had some time to kill a few weeks back and read the issue in TPB in a Chapters (I am not going to buy the TPB just for 1 issue... I think Marvel not releasing this issue is a big FU to the fans)... it was a weak issue. Basically it was a group of Zombies (the ones we saw in Evilution, including Triton, Wolverine, Iron Man, Wasp and Captain Rectitude) made their way to the Ape Universe. They fought the Prime Eight (Iron Mandrill, Silverback Surfer, Professor X, Nick Furry 2099, Doctor Doom, Clea, Hulk and Black Bolt) beacause Nick Furry 2099 came back to the present to make sure her future did happen. She presented it like she was there to stop the zombies, but in the end she wanted them to infect the Ape Universe so that her reality could happen, because lots of good came after they were able to beat off the zombies. She didn't know who it was that was going to be infected though. The others figured out her plan and managed to drive off the zombies, but not before Nick Furry 2099 herself was bit. Iron Mandrill killed her, leaving the rest of them to believe her future had been wiped out. However, at the end it was revealed that Iron Mandrill had been bitten by Wasp, as shown in Evilution.

[Evil-Spidey]

Originally Posted by ThunderWolf!!!

I am hoping for Marvel Zombies/Apes Omnibus.Too bad it won't happen.

I just want this issue in collected form, it was bad enough that it wasn't in the last Marvel Apes tpb!