Escape of the Living Dead
| Escape of the Living Dead | |
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Cover to Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #1.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Avatar Press |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | September 2005 – March 2006 |
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | John A. Russo |
| Artist(s) | Dheeraj Verma |
| Inker(s) | Lalit Kumar Singh |
| Collected editions | |
| Escape of the Living Dead | ISBN |
| Escape of the Living Dead: Resurrected | ISBN |
Escape of the Living Dead is a five-issue zombie comic book limited series published by Avatar Press, published in 2005. It is written by John A. Russo with artwork by Dheeraj Verma.
Although the story is a sequel to Night of the Living Dead, it is not set in the continuity of George Romero’s series of films or Russo’s The Return of the Living Dead series.
It was followed in 2006 by Escape of the Living Dead Fearbook and Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne, a three-issue mini-series, and Escape of the Living Dead Annual, published in 2007.
Set in 1971, 3 years after the events seen in Night of the Living Dead, the comic starts out with a raid by police officers led by Sheriff Harkness on a medical lab run by Dr. Melrose. During the raid the officers manage to shoot Dr. Melrose. Before he dies he reveals he had been experimenting on the zombies for a government funded project and tells the officers about his son who is taking over the project.
Meanwhile, one of the main characters, Sally Brinkman, is talking to her father Henry. It is revealed Sally is staying with her parents whilst going through a divorce and is working for her father at the local saloon.
Also, two robbers for the gang Sons of Satan attempt to rob a truck by pouring sugar in the gas tank, and then robbing its contents. When they look in the truck, they find it is full of zombies that proceed to attack and eat them. With the zombies released they start walking towards the town.
The zombies eventually reach the Brinkman farm and kill Sally’s mother. The zombies then try to attack Sally, but she manages to avoid them and ride a horse to the saloon where her Dad works. However, zombies have also attacked the saloon as well; Henry attempts to fight the zombies off but hides in the saloon just as Sally appears. They both hide in the saloon and lock the doors.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Sons of Satan gang attempt to meet up with the robbers from before, only to encounter them now as zombies. The three gang members, Bearcat, Slam, and Honeybear, kill the zombies before driving off. They eventually reach the saloon, where they are surrounded by zombies. Sally and Henry notice this and let them in.
Eventually, the zombies start to break in, and the bikers attempt to escape, kidnapping Sally and stealing a truck in the process, leaving Henry to be eaten. During this, one of the bikers, Honeybear, is killed, while Henry manages to avoid the zombies and get a truck to chase after the bikers.
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