Geekscape Comics: First Look At ‘Marvel Zombies: Halloween’

This October the creative team of Fred Van Lente and artist Alessandro Vitti will be bringing you a special holiday themed one-shot. ‘Marvel Zombies: Halloween’ returns us to a world filled with zombies where one kid just wants to go trick or treating.

Talkng about what we will see Van Lente says “The franchise is known for being really over the top and focusing on the insane idea of zombie-infected super heroes. And in the past, we’ve done stories with martians, robots, knights and many of Marvel’s monster characters. So for our Halloween one-shot, we’re doing more of a “classic” zombie apocalypse story about a woman and her son. The kid has grown up in a zombie apocalypse universe and when Halloween rolls around, he wants to go trick or treating. He’s heard about it and read about it, but his mom doesn’t think it’s a very good idea because they’re surrounded by zombies.”

So he asks her, “What’s the purpose of us staying alive during the zombie apocalypse if we never get to have any fun? What’s the point of just surviving?” He then sneaks out on Halloween night and goes Trick or Treating in a Spider-Man costume and events spiral from there. It’s a horrific but sweet little tale.”

On whether we will know the characters or it will remain a mystery.

“Exactly. If I revealed those things, I would give away the game, but I can reveal that this is going to really focus on Marvel’s kid and teen heroes; Avengers Academy, Runaways and even Power Pack. You’ll see more gruesome versions of these teams than we’re used to seeing. It’s sort of what “Lost Boys” did for vampires.

Plus, there’s even a surprise appearance at the end of the story by a Marvel character I’ve always loved, but for various reasons have never been able to include in a story. Their appearance in this is particularly apropos. It’s another horror-themed Marvel character that I’ve never been able to write.”

Source: CBR