Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne

    (Avatar, 2006)
™ and © Avatar Press, Inc.

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/A
    #1 Variation A
    Regular Cover A by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $3.98
  • 1/B
    #1 Variation B
    Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    5 copies from $4.00
  • 1/C
    #1 Variation C
    Body Count Cover C by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 1/D
    #1 Variation D
    Gore Cover D by Jeremy Rock
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $3.99
  • 1/F
    #1 Variation F
    Platinum Foil Cover F by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    Includes Certificate of Authenticity
    1 copy for $6.50
  • 1/G
    #1 Variation G
    Deadhead Cover G by Mike Wolfer
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 1/I
    #1 Variation I
    Splatterstock Cover I by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 1/J
    #1 Variation J
    Bad Day Cover J by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $4.50
  • 1/L
    #1 Variation L
    Walking the Dog Cover L by Dheeraj Verma
    Aug 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $4.50
  • 2/A
    #2 Variation A
    Regular Cover A by Dheeraj Verma
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $7.98
  • 2/B
    #2 Variation B
    Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    3 copies from $3.70
  • 2/D
    #2 Variation D
    Body Count Cover D by Dheeraj Verma
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 2/E
    #2 Variation E
    Gore Cover E by Dheeraj Verma
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $4.50
  • 2/F
    #2 Variation F
    Splatterstock Cover F by Dheeraj Verma
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $6.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $5.50
  • 2/J
    #2 Variation J
    Groovy Cannibal Cover J
    Oct 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $4.50
  • 3/A
    #3 Variation A
    Regular Cover A by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $8.00
  • 3/B
    #3 Variation B
    Wrap Cover B by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    4 copies from $4.00
  • 3/D
    #3 Variation D
    Body Count Cover D by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 3/E
    #3 Variation E
    Terror Cover E by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $3.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $2.97
  • 3/F
    #3 Variation F
    Platinum Foil Cover F by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $8.00
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    Includes Certificate of Authenticity
    1 copy for $1.91
  • 3/G
    #3 Variation G
    Splatterstock Cover G by Dheeraj Verma
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $6.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    1 copy for $5.50
  • 3/H
    #3 Variation H
    In Your Face Cover H by Jeremy Rock
    Nov 2006
    Cover: $5.99
    W: John Russo, Mike Wolfer  ·  A: Dheeraj Verma, Mike Wolfer
    2 copies from $29.00