Comics Review: The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Zombies #20
Spoilers Below
‘ZombieNado’
A zombie invasion hits Springfield which mixes at the precise time of a tornado causing, you guessed it, a tornado filled with zombies. The storm picks up Homer and eventually he gets bitten by a zombie and turned into one himself, but a Homer zombie is still a zombie, so the father of three ends up eating the rest of the zombies in the tornado which in turn causes the storm to disappear. But, Homer is still alive…AND HUNGRY!
The Walking Ned
Homer is the mayor/leader of what’s left of Springfield in a post-apocalyptic world where zombies run free. Unfortunately, Homer isn’t much of a leader and is constantly going on raids that costs lives only to feed his needs, wants, and desires. Eventually, Ned has enough of his bull shit and asks if they can have a chat in a graveyard. This would be Homer’s final resting place thanks to a zombie swarm, and Ned takes off and begins leading the rest of the town out of Springfield with angels watching over him.
Dusk of the No-Brainers
The kids are on a field trip to the mall when a zombie invasion breaks out. At first, the mall is a great place to hold up while mayhem is going on outside, but Skinner acts like a tool and just lets the zombies in and even turning into one himself. The kids discover that Orange smoothies are the best way to melt the undead, so the strong survive and take off from the mall..but not before they re-up on supplies!
Power Plants vs Zombies
Homer and Bart are hanging out at the power plant when they decide to break in to a secret lab and steal a rock with radioactive powers. When the duo takes off, the rock causes people to turn into zombies. And while Homer and Bart use ketchup to defeat the zombies on the inside, they still have to deal with a bunch of zombies outside. They turn to the plants…and making mutants out of them. This seems to work for a while, and the mutant plants even have their own powers and whatnot, but soon vegetarian zombies show up and make short work of them. Finally, Bart and Homer decide to convince the zombies to head on over to a college graduation where they can get the best brains in the biz.
Unfortunately, mainstream media has ruined zombies for the most part. Not only do we have terrible zombie movies that continue to come out, but zombie television shows are all over the place, and even zombie games have gotten weak (have you played Resident Evil 6? Ugh…). Fortunately, The Simpsons save us all.
