Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne

    (Avatar, 2006)
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Since 28 Days Later broke gospel and made zombies furious, frothing, speed-freaks (a lot closer to Romero’s Crazies than traditional zombies) and the Dawn of the Dead remake enforced it, there’s been some debate among horror fans over whether fast zombies are kosher or not. The question is answered when John Russo, screenwriter of the original Night of the Living Dead, scripts a zombie moving quicker than a human. (Unless this is a comic adaptation addition by scripter Mike Wolfer, or an artistic contribution by Dheeraj Verma).

Framing the flashbacks to the zombie’s past are two scientists illegally experimenting on him on a warehouse. Otherwise, the story is about a bunch of plot-free hippies flaunting free love and drugs in the swamp while elsewhere a couple of anti-hippie hunters encounter a zombie. It’s not the zombie that infects one, however, but a mosquito that had bitten the zombie earlier. One wonders why the middlemen couldn’t be cut out and just have the mosquito bite a hippie.

— Brendan McGinley
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#1 Variation A (Regular Cover A by Dheeraj Verma)

August, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
1 copy available for $3.98 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#1 Variation B (Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma)

August, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
4 copies available from $4.00 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#1 Variation D (Gore Cover D by Jeremy Rock)

August, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
1 copy available for $4.25 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#2 Variation A (Regular Cover A by Dheeraj Verma)

October, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
1 copy available for $7.98 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#2 Variation B (Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma)

October, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
3 copies available from $3.70 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#2 Variation E (Gore Cover E by Dheeraj Verma)

October, 2006
Cover Price: $5.99
1 copy available for $4.98 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#2 Variation J (Groovy Cannibal Cover J)

October, 2006
Cover Price: $5.99
1 copy available for $94.98 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#3 Variation B (Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma)

November, 2006
Cover Price: $3.99
4 copies available from $4.00 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
#3 Variation H (In Your Face Cover H by Jeremy Rock)

November, 2006
Cover Price: $5.99
1 copy available for $94.98 		John Russo, Mike WolferDheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer