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Gotham Knights #29
Bridget Haines |
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The Mortician: Zombie Zero Pt. 2 of 2 |
| Cover Date: |
July 2002 |
| Story: |
Devin Grayson |
| Pencils: |
Leonardo Manco |
| Inks: |
Leonardo Manco |
| Colors and Separations: |
Gloria Vasquez / Wildstorm FX |
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Synopsis: (WARNING! SPOILERS!)
This is the second part of the Mortician
story. Batman as of last issue, had just
dived into a fray between the mortician's
zombies, and the terrified, and armed, Keung.
The Bat knocks Keung to the ground and the
gun from his hand. He asks the Mortician
if the zombies are really dead. He says thet
were, but as his formula isnt perfected yet...
Keung spots the man he is accused of killing
there, and he cries out to him, asking him
if he's alive. Batman blows up some of the
zombies. He uses his grapnel to get himself,
Keung, and the body of Viper out of the building.
The Mortician comforts his animate corpses.
Keung swears he did not kill Viper, who is
animated but silent.
Tat has a conversation with his
closet, or
something in it. It turns out
to be a hulking
zombie who doesn't take well
to being scolded.
Batman is in his secondary cave
doing some
research. Keung wakes up, he
knocks him back
out.
The mortician is in a terrible
rush to embalm
bodies. He has a conversation
with his father,
who doesn't speak, being dead
as he is. He
apologizes to the zombie for
yelling. Meanwhile
the Bat is further investigating.
The Mortician
seems to be in a war against
death itself.
Batman roughs people up to find
out who is
hiding the rogue zombie. They
don't understand.
He picks up a police call about
someone maybe
ill or in makeup. He finds Tat
fleeing the
creature and he squares off with
it as Tat
flees to a cop car. He shoots
the zombie
with a dart. It falls.
Batman returns to the mortuary to tell the
man that one of the zombies committed homicide.
It turns out he is embalming them with biolumiescent
parasites, nothing more. The one who Tat
found wasn't completely dead when he was
embalmed, and will now live out the rest
of its unnatural life in prison. Batman goes
about destroying the zombies. The mortician
destroys his parents himself.
Analysis:
Cover:  (5 of 5 cowls)
Brian Boland.Creeeeeeepy! Outstanding as
per usual. Great expressions on the zombie
faces. Great sense of being overwhelmed and
reflective of the final scene in the book
as well. Bravo. .
Story: (4 of 5 cowls)
I think I liked this better because it WAS
a standalone and wasn't bearing a "Fugitive"
banner. It was an interesting idea, though
I'd like to know what became of the Mortician
at the end. A little bit of horror injected
into our books, though it might have been
best dished out around Halloween.
Artwork: (4 of 5 cowls)
I like Manco for this type of story and subject.
Normally I'm not a fan of the loose sketchy,
gritty style of drawing, but it really works
in this horror-flavored tale. I especially
like the hulking visage of the zombie emerging
from Tat's closet on page 7. Very eerie.
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