A soldier with an unhealthy appetite goes undercover to foil the plans of an anti-government militia.
DC Comics' newest comic book stars the few, the proud and the undead.
Star-Spangled War Stories Featuring G.I. Zombie revives the long-running military-tinged anthology series with a soldier who's pretty much dead but has been serving the government in secrecy for many years and many American wars.
Batwing writing team Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and artist Scott Hampton pair Jared Kabe with another military type, Carmen King, a woman who's done two tours of duty but is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Her bosses think it'd be good for her to partner with Jared, and they focus their energies on anti-government militias in the USA as well as the beginning stages of a full-fledged zombie apocalypse.
G.I. Zombie is a "very good warrior, he's a pretty decent guy, but he also has an appetite that's not really healthy — and visually disgusting," says Palmiotti, who describes the series as a mash-up of The Walking Dead, old Sgt. Rock comics and HBO's True Detective.
"The surprising thing is you'll get to really like these characters right away, and when the disturbing stuff happens, you might feel like, 'Well, you know, that's what he's gotta do.' And you'll tag along for the ride."
In the first issue (out Wednesday), Jared and Carmen are sent on an undercover mission by their handler/cleanup man Abel Anderson — codename Gravedigger — to infiltrate a militia that has gotten its hands on a chemical weapon called Black Ice, which can destroy towns and cities in a matter of hours.
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