Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here's the archive of the moments posted so far!

Today we take a look at Garth Ennis and John McCrea's "Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium" two-parter from Hitman...

Enjoy!

"Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium" is a beautiful two-part story from Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Hitman comic book.

In Hitman #13, the "hero" of the book, assassin Tommy Monaghan and his friend Natt have been hired to kill this mad scientist who is testing out a process that involves re-animating dead things (there's a great line where Tommy explains that he usually gets hired by scientist groups and chemical plants, because they're always having SOMEone get doused with chemicals and turning into a superhero - so they hire Tommy before she/he can start a superhero career - maximum deniability). They discover that their friend Ringo has ALSO been hired to kill the mad scientist.

They track the guy to the Gotham Aquarium, where the mad scientist has turned the temperature up in all the tanks to boiling.

Eventually, their OTHER assassin friend, the incompetent Hacken, follows them to the Aquarium hoping that there is some work he can do (as, being an incompetent assassin, he does not get hired much).

Once there, they discover why the scientist turned up all the water - he is testing his zombie formula on all the sealife in the aquarium, by gassing them with the formula.



Cue hilarity...



So there's lots of funny scenes of them killing zombie animals...



... but also a great bit where one of the zombies bites Hacken, so he has Ringo chop his hand off, only to discover later that a bite does not turn you into a zombie (you have to be dead first and then exposed to the gas)

There's also a great sequence where they're surrounded by the zombie animals and they just have to open fire with all that they have.

It's a great visual by McCrea...



Anyhow, Hitman had more than a few offbeat tales during its run (it also had some really serious stories, too), and I think this one is probably my favorite of the wacky ones. Ennis at his comedic best.