Trivia / Marvel Zombies

• Follow the Leader: DC Comics went ahead and made their own Zombie Apocalypse story with DCeased. While Blackest Night has a similar premise, DCeased feels closer to the traditional bleak apocalyptic setting than the latter.
• Franchise Zombie: Pun aside. Their later appearances have been accused of flogging the idea to death. So to speak. As a result, the series has undergone Genre Shift in order to keep its blood flowing. So to speak.
• Schedule Slip: The last four issues of Marvel Zombies: Resurrection were postponed for six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original idea for the series had Luke Cage as one of the last surviving heroes, with the idea being that his unbreakable skin made him immune to the infection (which would have made a decent Omega Man-like story). This was changed when Kirkman found out that Greg Land had already drawn Cage as a zombie in Ultimate Fantastic Four, something that hadn't been specified in Mark Millar's script.
  • Another idea that was considered was Hawkeye escaping in a Quinjet and trying to live in the arctic until the zombies find him and he has to be on the run again (admittedly, this could have made a decent cat-and-mouse chase story).
  • The opening pages were supposed to have Superman as the virus-carrying superhero from another dimension. This was changed to the Sentry with an obvious recolor.
• Word of God: According to Joe Quesada in one of his columns, Felicia Hardy has a twin sister named Felicity in the Marvel Zombies universe, who goes by "Night Cat." This is how there's a Black Cat lookalike in the crowd of surviving superheroes aboard the Helicarrier in Dead Days, when an infected Black Cat is shown on the splash page in an early issue of Marvel Zombies Vs. Army of Darkness.

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