Zomblog 7: Black Nights and Dead Days Part 2: Zombie Reed Richards is Useful

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I promised we'd talk Marvel Zombies. I don't want to disappoint all of my fans who are obligated to look at my blog for marks, so here we go. Marvel Zombies started in the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four. For those of you who don't know, the Ultimate Universe was an alternate continuity Marvel had for years which was intended to be a modernized, more realistic version of the traditional Marvel Universe. Some of it is good, even great. A lot of it was quite bad. Ultimate Fantastic Four wasn't particularly good but was by far better than some of the other Ultimate stuff.

Anyway, in one storyline, Ultimate Reed Richard aka Mr. Fantastic builds a machine to bridge different worlds in the multiverse. He starts talking to who the reader is meant to believe is the classic Reed Richards. However, when they finally meet it turns out it was all a ruse, the other Reed Richards was actually a Zombie!Thus we find the most interesting part of the Marvel Zombies stories: the heroes and villains of Marvel stay sentient even after the infection.

When these versions of the characters were given their own series, we got to see the quirks that come with being a zombie superhero. Zombie Hulk would eat too much and when he turned back into Zombie Bruce Banner it wouldn't all fit inside him properly. When they were hungry the Zombies would become more like traditional Zombies: beings of pure hunger. This would last until they ate living flesh, when they would return to sentience. This led Zombie Peter Parker eating Mary Jane and then feeling bad about it. Zombie Reed Richards regrets nothing, willfully becoming undead in order to achieve the next step in human evolution. Almost no one is safe from infection, not even the gods of Asgard or characters with healing factors such as Wolverine. A group of the Marvel Zombies and up eating the Silver Surfer and Galactus and use the cosmic powers this grant them to devour aliens throughout the universe.

In another story the Zombies battle Undead-Killing Legend Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise. The Zombies later begin dimension-hopping, battling the Marvel Apes (exactly what they sound like: Non-Human Ape versions of the Marvel Heroes) as well as mainstream Marvel characters like Machine Man.

"ok so basically im monky"

These are not deep works. They're just fun. Sometimes, Zombies can just be fun.