Victorian Undead
| Victorian Undead | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Wildstorm |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January – June 2010 |
| No. of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) |
Sherlock Holmes Doctor Watson |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Ian Edginton |
| Artist(s) | Davide Fabbri |
| Letterer(s) | Saida Temofonte |
| Colorist(s) | Carrie Strachan |
| Editor(s) |
Ben Abernathy Kristy Quinn |
| Collected editions | |
| Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies | ISBN |
| Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula | ISBN |
Victorian Undead is a series of comics about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson dealing with the supernatural. The first series Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies is a six-issue American comic book limited series published by Wildstorm. The series was written by Ian Edginton, with art by Davide Fabbri. The story is set in Victorian England and follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the midst of a zombie outbreak. It was followed by Victorian Undead Special: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jekyll/Hyde (one issue) and a second series Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (five issues), which sees Holmes and Watson helping to track down the title character (Count Dracula) before he kills Queen Victoria.
The first series ran in early 2010 and the second in early 2011 – as Wildstorm folded during that period, the last three issues were published directly by the parent company, DC Comics.
In 1854, a strange comet enters over London, releasing little fragments in which one fragment penetrates into a street pump near Broad Street in Soho. Five months later, Soho suffers what appears to be a cholera outbreak. Doctor John Snow and Reverend Henry Whitehead investigate the outbreak. While Snow postulates the cause for the outbreak, Reverend Whitehead discusses a recent confession from a tanner's apprentice about the dead coming back to life. Soon afterwards, one of Snow's deceased patients is resurrected as a zombie in front of a shocked Snow and Whitehead.
By 1898, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson investigate a charlatan who has been hypnotizing unsuspecting people into revealing their secrets. The charlatan turns out to be an advanced automaton and is disabled during a struggle with Holmes and Watson. The two are perplexed at this discovery, in which Holmes deduces that the machine was controlled by an unknown person, who personally knows Holmes. Meanwhile, two workmen at an underground railway construction yard come across a corpse. One of the workmen sees a gold ring on the corpse and greedily attempts to appropriate it, but the corpse comes to life and bites him. The zombie is decapitated by the other workman, but he is also attacked and bitten by his coworker, who turns into a zombie.
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