| Title | : | Marvel Zombies 3 |
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| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0785136355 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780785136354 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2009 |
Marvel Zombies 3 Reviews
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I’ll be honest, when I first picked this up, I thought ‘Here we go; Robert Kirkman’s moved on but Marvel are going to keep flogging this dead horse with another, probably inferior, creative team’ but hush my mouth and call me Sally if this didn’t turn out to be much better than either of the first two Marvel Zombies books!
For starters, Kev Walker is on drawin’ duty and I really like his stuff (I wonder if they’re deliberately putting 2000AD alumni on these books or if it’s just a coincidence) so that was awesome. Then I find that the new protagonists are Machine Man and Jocasta, two of my ALL TIME favourite Marvel heroes, especially together! Then Fred Van Lente goes and pens a cracking good tale that manages to be horrific, funny and occasionally even a little bit tragic all at once!
Take a bow, gentlemen; this book is gold! -
This is a sequel to the original and excellent Robert Kirkman and Sean Philips Marvel Zombies miniseries set before the events of Marvel Zombies 2. The original creative team have move on to separate projects and Marvel, rather than set a cash cow to pasture follows it up with another set of books the superhero and zombie fusion to be handled by a different team.
Fred Van Lente is a capable is capable replacement. His scripts have a dash of humor in an otherwise morbid story. It channels Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy with Aaron Stack the Machine Man in the Ash / Bruce Campbell role who is armed with both a saw and boom stick from his morphing limbs. The story reads fast and the twists would blindside you as you cannot adequately prepare yourself.
I miss Sean Philips moody art, but Kev Walker is up to the task of depicting decapitation, immolation and consumption of human flesh. I miss Arthur Suydam’s covers as well since he contributes a couple of variant covers with Greg Land providing the covers for the series. Which in a way is appropriate as the Marvel Zombie universe first reared its ugly head in a book Land handled the art.
A fun read and easy enough to digest in one sitting, it can stand by its own merits but I highly recommend reading the original series before diving in for a more rewarding experience. -
I wondered how Fred Van Lente would do after taking over the reins from Kirkman, but I have to say I was surprised at how good this story was. Here Zombie Deadpool has entered earth through a Nexus into Man-Things Florida swamp and begun infecting tourists with the zombie virus. A secret government superhero team is sent in to contain the outbreak while Machine Man and the Avengers’ own robot supreme Jocasta travel to the zombie universe to collect a vial of human blood for a vaccination to be created. Once there they discover that Kingpin has built a zombie mafia which controls the last food supply for zombies. The rest of the story is a zombie creep fest and gore show. Great zombie story.
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The post-modern Machine Man is one of my favourite anti-heroes. All MM, all the time. Interesting plot too.
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Oh no! The Marvel Zombies have found a way to infiltrate the universe of the MCU! Apparently, the zombified superheroes of the zombie universe are looking for inter-dimensional gates to attack and plunder other universes in the multiverse, to spread the zombie plague. The only thing stopping them? Machine Man! And some silver robot-chick named Jocasta! (I've never heard of either of these characters, but they are apparently real Marvel superheroes.) Writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker continue the humor and the gore of the series started by Robert Kirkman. Honestly, there's no end in sight for this series... and that's a very good thing.
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Machine Man does some interdimensional traveling with Jocasta, his on again off again girl bot,(Didn't she leave him for Ultron at some point), to find a cure for the zombie virus...Best line in the whole book, "Name is Machine Man, Aaron if you're nasty"
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Pretty good but not as good as the previous collection
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Each volume of Marvel Zombies has been radically different. This volume is an inter-dimensional conquest story featuring Machine Man, Jacosta, Zombie Kingpin, Zombie Doctor Strange, Zacosta's imaginary The Wasp consciousness, and virtually no one else. It's, at times entertaining. But some of the humor is flat, and if you're not already familiar with Jacosta's imaginary The Wasp consciousness (wich I wasn't), then it's confusing why The Wap is behaving like neither Marvel Zombies Wasp, Ultimate Universe Wasp, or Marvel-616 Wasp.
I'm not sure who to recommend it to. It really doesn't share too much with the previous volumes of Marvel Zombies, with the major players for those stories being marginally present. I guess it's for people who enjoyed The Intiative runs featuring Jacosta and the characters from the beginning of this volume. Oh, and Morbius fans get a double dose of the living vampire. SO if that's your jam, get on this. Otherwise, it's kind of a mixed bag. -
I found the story difficult to follow. I was unfamiliar with the characters. And other than the fact that they were Marvel Zombies the story line didn't seem to have much to do with the other stories in the series. 2 stars.
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I held off on this, as I didn't care for some of the characters much. This was a great entry, with some of the best treatments of obscure Marvel characters around. Very well done.
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Talk about a total tone shift.
From the first 2 volumes being an interesting and fun mashup of zombies and well known superheroes to a 3rd installment with far more serious take with a lot more gore and a ton of lesser known characters, the Marvel Zombies storyline has now hit the level of just flat out absurdity and/or craziness.
Gone are the more familiar faces of zombified Iron Man and Captain America and their quest for food. Instead it’s Möbius, machine man, and ARMOR fighting undead Kingpin and his farm of edible clones.
This one is far more bloody, dark, and nuts than the previous ones, reminding me of the Deadworld Judge Dredd story arc from Ken-W. I wouldn’t say this is “great”, but then again, I’m weird so anything that’s dark and bleak and pushes the limits of commercial comics is gonna get high marks from me…just be ready for Marvel Zombies 3 to be something way different than Kirkman originally came up with. -
Van Lente tosses the entire Marvel Zombie storyline out the window for a totally new thing. It’s mostly successful as an entertaining read. There are some TERRIBLE lines in it, so bad I sometimes wondered if he was doing it purpose, but overall still interesting.
The whole thing feels like a crazy action blockbuster from the 80’s, but one of those without one of the major action stars of the time. So you don’t really know the whole story behind the characters and who they’re supposed to be but you vaguely recognize everyone enough to get the gist of how you’re supposed to be seeing them.
Anyway, average read. Not bad, but only for those who really want to see more Marvel Zombies, but without all that “power cosmic, are Galactus and can fly now” stuff. A more stripped down and accessible MZ story, if you will. -
The original team has moved on and usually that spells disaster for a franchise, but Fred van Lente has done a wonderful job in writing a contained story that entices and expands the universe. Set somewhere before Marvel Zombies 2, Marvel Zombies 3 is concerned with Machine Man trying to find uncontaminated blood from the zombieverse to help A.R.M.O.R. create a vaccine with. Obviously some subversion is afoot and it does not work out as planned, but the story is engrossing, though at times a tad clichéd. The art has never looked more gruesome, the characters are entertaining and the conclusion to this story is interesting and opens the door to more tales within the universe.
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I was a little apprehensive once I saw that Kirkman wasn't at the helm, but it turns out Van Lente gives us a fascinating tie-in to the first two series, and I'd argue that the art here is the best yet in the whole line. I like how it approaches from another angle and shows us more of the Marvel characters and where they fall into the zombie apocalypse, and also how the 'alt universe' will collide with our own, ours being the 'real' Marvel universe. Not to mention, I don't think we've had this much of an awesome Machine Man in one place before.
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3 / 5 for 'Marvel Zombies Vol 3' by Fred Van Lente & Kev Walker
Another entry in the Marvel Zombies saga, which unfortunately doesn't quite match the highs of books one and two by Kirkman & Phillips. Van Lente provides a perfectly serviceable story regarding excursions into alternate realities, with Machine Man and Jocasta as the main heroes, and the art by Kev Walker is fine, if a little uninspired and a little rough around the edges.
A good TPB, not great, but not bad either; just good.
3 / 5 -
Kinda boring. There are a few interesting ideas here and there, but none of them are really well developed.
For instance, I liked seeing how Kingpin tried to save his wife. However, she then approaches individuals who she believes to be zombies, which doesn't make any sense. And then, Kingpin eats her, because Van Lente wanted to make a lazy joke.
I also don't understand how Kingpin got to shut Black Arrow up. The Lockjaw scene is nice, though. -
I literally just read this because Morbius, the Living Vampire, is in it and I'm trying to dig up as much as I can with him in it. That being said this was by far the best Marvel Zombies I have read. I thought Machine Man aka "Aaron" was hilarious (liked him with the Ms. Marvel titles too) and it actually had a good story.
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Not as fun as the previous Marvel Zombies runs, there was barely any mention of the Avengers/X-Men, the only heroes turning up being Morbius, Machine Man and Jacosta travelling to a different universe.
For me, it just didn't live up to the previous two, and took a turn I didn't care for.
TWs for blood, gore, zombies/cannibalism, death, sexist comments -
We see the Zombies are trying to invade alternate universes and have also trying to find alternatives to easing their hunger and their solution is pretty demented and the story itself does see a return for the dark humor of the original. As it feels like a Zombie Action movie kind of like the Evil Dead movies.
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For me, this volume was mainly interesting because it pushes forward the overall marvel zombies narrative, but I miss the big name marvel guys! Machine Man was pretty cool though! I really hope this group meets up with Spiderman, wolverine. And crew. I'm excited to see if that happens in the next volume.
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La tercera entrega de una serie impresionante,me impresiona que DeadPool zombie entrara en el universo 616(universo donde viven todos los superheroes),su aparcicion es graciosa y la historia de tras fondo es increible,mis 10/10
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Continuing the Marvel Zombie saga. The zombies try to take over our dimension by infiltrating the gov't agency ARMOUR. Machine Man goes to their dimension for DNA samples and meets zombie Kingpin. Very good.
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it was cool because the superheros turned into zombies
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These are getting better as I go. The art continues to improve, and this story made the most sense so far. I liked the characters a lot too.
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I really enjoyed this series! And I was getting tired of the MZ storyline. But I’m a Machine Man fan from way back, and I liked what they did with Morbius and Kingpin. I’m back in and ready for MZ4!
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Still good.
