Webcomic / Undead Ed

Ed Zamsa is clinically dead, which he knew before the doctor told him that in a checkup. He tries a bit to live his life in spite of it, but one certainly isn't going to be able to just ignore that your existence is in violation of nature, so he constantly goes looking to find out what he is now, meeting a variety of supernatural or quirky characters along the way.

A comedic Magic Realism work set to the plot of Ed figuring out why he's undead and where the supernatural isn't too far away as Ed soon finds out, by Boredman, a French cartoonist.

The comic was finished on February 7, 2016. Start reading from the first one here!

A Spin-Off was later made, Apocalyptic Horseplay, taking place in the same universe while focusing largely on new characters, but with some of this comic's characters appearing again in it.

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Tropes that apply to UndeadEd

• Actually Not a Vampire: Ed's a walking corpse that doesn't appear in mirrors, but as he finds out by talking to actual ones, he's not a vampire. No one knows what he is.
• Bittersweet Ending: In the end Ed finds out he was just a oversight on the higher powers part. Lucy, the Devil's secretary, weighs his soul and it basically comes up slightly short to get into heaven but at least enough to go to purgatory. She does offer him a deal stay on Earth as a zombie or a vampire. But he ultimately decides to move on. The finale of the comic sees his friends around his grave, mourning him.
  • Fortunately for Ed, Apocalyptic Horseplay's imminent apocalypse gives him a reprieve from Limbo, seeing a return to earth as a ghost to see the witch again. They kiss and seem to have disappeared together after the Apocalypse is averted.
• Blessed with Suck: Ed's basically just dead and tormented with confusion over that while all the other supernatural walking corpses he meets get special advantages.
• Call-Back: Mort dubs Ed's unique condition a "Waldo". Lucy later says that's what the celestial beings went with for naming Ed's special case of an individual completely balanced in good and bad deeds throughout their life, preventing heaven and hell from getting their soul to the respective afterlife as well, much to Ed's displeasure.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Mort is quite certain that Ed is clinically dead in spite of still functioning mostly normally, as he tested that by stabbing him in the heart repeatedly.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: Zig Zagged - the Angel of Death is rather creepy-looking at first glance, though just a bit snarky and cold to Ed asking why he's not dead like he should be. After Ed and the witch summon her, her appearance is less harsh and more resembles Ed, and she willingly but begrudgingly tells him that he's not on her list of dead to ferry over but she has no idea why. She also cozies up with the witch's cat and quite enjoys the break after they forget to release the spell holding Angel of Death in the witch's apartment.
• Feel No Pain: Ed says he doesn't.
• Gag Penis: Ed apparently having a constant erection is the root a few jokes in the webcomic.
• Glowing Eyes: Ed's female friend gains these when she reveals herself as a witch.
• Hipster: Chuck refuses to have his subjects implanted with microchips instead of collars to control because the former is too mainstream.
• Hot as Hell: The Devil's Secretary, Lucy, is a curvaceous humanoid with pointy ears and small horns coming out of her temples wearing form-fitting woman's business attire.
• Magic Realism: A bit of a subtle example considering Ed doesn't interact with normal people in very public areas much, but a nightclub for vampires has its vampire bouncer flat-out say "Vampires only" to Ed as he tries to get in, and later, undead fellows created from a military experiment that Ed freed are working at the place Ed used to with his boss saying dead guys are in demand as employees.
• Missing Reflection: Ed mentions he doesn't have one and think he's a vampire at first for it. But finds he doesn't need any blood or has fangs, so that is ruled out. It isn't near the end of the series that a female vampire Mort befriended mentions that the reason this is because vampire souls are "cloaked" in a sense from the Angel of Death which prevents them from taking theirs upon death and allows them to be immortal. This clues Ed in that his soul is likewise cloaked and finally gives him a clue on finding out how to find out what he is exactly.
• Mistaken for Gay: Greg, the Bouncer at the vampire nightclub, assumed Ed is gay for him because he always has an erection while he's seen talked to him - Ed just apparently always has a constant one from his uniquely being undead, period.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Von Bellsing knows all about the supernatural from watching Goosebumps (1995), Tales from the Crypt, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the last one twice!)
• Innocent Innuendo: Ed sells his body for money (that is, works for Mort by laying around as a corpse for other morticians to train on).
• I Resemble That Remark!: The two female vampires at the nightclub heard about a theory that vampires come from cats, rather than bats, and say they think it's ridiculous. Then Ed suddenly greets them, causing them to react like cats.
• Limited Wardrobe: Ed's always seen in public in his loose-fitting red (and apparently really expensive) shirt, black tie, and brown slacks.
• No Ontological Inertia: Since Ed is basically walking corpse of sorts that still in his human body. It starts rotting over time.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: The men resurrecting by the military constantly act like brainless idiots so the military doesn't use them for soldiers like is planned...except for the ones which are actually just idiots.
• Of Course I'm Not a Virgin: Von Bellsing had a hunch that Ed's been cursed by a witch to steal his life to maintain her own youth. Ed finds out that curse only works with virgins, and is clearly offended by the assumption.
  • Ed needs the blood of an evildoer, and gets Chuck to provide a few drops. He is quite grumpy after doing this, because Ed lied to him and claimed he needed the blood of a virgin.
• Skewed Priorities: Ed starts helping a woman being mugged, with being killed by a knife not something for him to fear...but then he remembers his red shirt is really expensive.
• The Reveal:
  • Ed's female friend turns out to be a witch, which turns out to be lucky for him since he tried to poison her at one point.
  • Ed is neither a zombie or a vampire but just some unlucky guy whom the Higher Powers overlooked upon his death, allowing to revive as a being that's just a walking dead but neither a zombie or vampire.
• The Undead: Pretty much the gist of the comic. Ed himself is one, though what exactly is his main goal of the comic. Along the way he meets ghouls, zombies, reanimated corpses (Frankensteins if you wanna be technical) and vampires along the way.