Marvel Zombies is coming at a weird time, not just for the MCU, but for zombie stories as a whole. When the comic debuted in 2005, spinning out of a story in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, it was written by the red-hot Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and was a thrilling, and often darkly comic expansion of zombie lore, featuring superpowered, extremely chatty flesh-eaters. 20 years later, and we have a very loose adaptation debuting all four episodes today on Disney Plus, itself a belated sequel to a 2021-debuting episode of What If…?
Add in a general malaise about the MCU itself, a cooling towards zombie properties (28 Years Later excepted), and the point is that there’s a lot working against the four-episode series. So, credit where it's due: despite some hiccups here and there, Marvel Zombies is a fun expansion of the world introduced back in 2021, with some delightful Easter eggs for MCU fans, and some truly gross R-rated kills throughout.
