Comics Review: The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Zombies #20

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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.

This year’s edition of The Treehouse of Horror is effectively a zombies edition…and an excellent one at that. For starters, we get the spirit of the TV special alive and well in that we get spoofs of popular sci-fi/horror type shit like Walking Dead and Sharknado.  Both were FANTASTIC with a double kudos going to ‘The Walking Ned’ at being the coolest fucking comic I’ve read all year. The layout and artwork for the whole issue is top-notch, but we got more violent affair than we normally get from The Simpsons and it works really, really well. Decapitations, blood, machetes, all components needed in an effective zombie war are laden throughout. The mutants vs zombies story was all quality as well because not only did we get a shit-load of zombies, but the mutant plants were so friggin’ cool with a bunch getting their own super powers.
Overall, Bongo Comics puts out an issue that is a MUST BUY, and even though this is the first one-shot of the year that doesn’t come with extra goodies, it’s by far the best comic I’ve read in 2014.
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