WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Leonard Kirk, Rachelle Rosenberg, and VC's Travis Lanham, on sale now.

The latest Marvel Zombies series has changed the focus and format of the popular Marvel franchise. Instead of focusing on horror stories about zombie mayhem and gore, this incarnation of the Marvel Zombies seems more concerned with the survivors.

The first few volumes of Marvel Zombies stories initially took place on the world of Earth-2149, where almost all the Earth's heroes became zombies. The comics mostly showed these zombie heroes massacring anyone and everyone while taking the battle into space and to other worlds before the franchise began to incorporate more dark humor.

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The original Marvel Zombies began with Sentry arriving from a parallel universe with an infection that ravaged the world. The Avengers were the first to fall, and soon Earth faced another threat as Galactus and Silver Surfer showed up. The Marvel Zombie heroes ate Silver Surfer and Galactus before heading out to find other life forms to consume. There were different zombie superheroes, some "good zombies" fighting for survival, and other "bad zombies" who wanted to eat everything, all of them retaining the ability to speak and scheme.

Moonstone and Forge in Marvel Zombies

However, Marvel Zombies: Resurrection takes a very different approach to the concept that and one that might seem very familiar to fans of The Walking Dead. This familiarity shouldn't be a surprise because Robert Kirkman, who created The Walking Dead, was also the writer for the original Marvel Zombies. This story reboots the entire Marvel Zombies universe starting right after the Galactus attacks. Spider-Man, one of the sole survivors of this version of the story, promises to protect Franklin and Valeria Richards after the Fantastic Four head into battle. What resulted was a group of survivors traveling through the woods, trying to survive.

In this world, Peter Parker is similar to Rick Grimes as he no longer cares about his past life as a hero and wants to fulfill his promise to protect Franklin and Valeria. Also traveling with them is the former X-Men member Forge and former Thunderbolt member Moonstone. The five also have Chewie, Captain Marvel's alien pet, and a Sentinel that Peter reprogrammed with the sole purpose of protecting Frankin and Valeria.

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Blade in Marvel Zombies

The feel of this entire issue was different than any other Marvel Zombies series to date. There was a lack of zombies, although they faced a horde of regular zombies in the woods and a zombified Nightcrawler. The group ended up at Xavier's School and found some humans locked in there, not unlike the groups of humans that Rick Grimes' group would find. It turned out Deadheads (humans who worshipped the zombies and brought them food) were already there. Beast was their leader, and he killed Forge, which highlights another similarity to The Walking Dead, where anyone could die at any time.

Finally, as the first issue came to an end, one more major comparison to The Walking Dead arrived. As Moonstone tried to turn Spider-Man, she ended up chopped into pieces by a sword wielded by the vampire hunter Blade. It wasn't Michonne, but Blade. When he learned Franklin and Valeria wanted to find the Galactus Hive, he came along for the ride. In the end, this is a Marvel Zombies tale that is more about the survivors than the superhero zombies, a refreshing change for the Marvel Zombies series.

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