Phillip Kennedy Johnson

damian kidnapped by memento: AAAAAA NO NONONO DON'T TOUCH HIM I'LL *KILL* YOU

batman tied to a light pole while damian gets the gotham irregulars to safety: alright, you guys got this, whatever.

the reunion was great. damian swooping in to save the irregulars (even though it overlapped a bit with the previous issue) ruled. i loved the part when that one kid was like "you guys, i think that's ROBIN!" all starstruck even though they were literally down there looking for him. it's sort of how i show more feel about reading these comics lmao.

i love damian wayne so much i'm so deeply normal about him. show less

and so the second and final writer on this title ends his run the same way its first writer did: with an incredible, moving ending. and with me being sad that it's an ending.

if damian was going to hang up the cape and start a new chapter of his life as the epilogue seemed to be potentially leading to, i would have had no cause to complain. but it seems like he's just going to keep popping up in other titles as robin and being poorly written by other people for whom he isn't their primary show more focus.

don't get me wrong, i literally teared up at the direction his life is going, and i would be happy for him to bow out as a combatant and focus on his future medical career. but since he's going to keep being robin alongside that, ffs, let me read about it in an ongoing!

but seriously. obviously none of these complaints have any bearing on how i feel about the issue itself, as my rating should attest. there is also another moment of pitch perfect character writing for damian in this, and i don't want to fail to celebrate that. between this and knightfight, damian stans at least got one heck of a feast before the famine. show less

This has gotten mixed reviews and I can understand why. However, as a fan of Zombies, Spider-Man and the Marvel Universe in general, I genuinely enjoyed this comic series.

After the success of DCeased, Marvel relaunched their Zombies series in order to cash in some bucks. While I hear that the other Zombie series are terrible, I actually really, really enjoyed this entry (or resurrection). It's a weird blend of science-fiction terror/horror and super-hero drama but it works. The corpse of show more Galactus, the world-eater, appears as a vessel of an interstellar virus - that destroys the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four and causes them and the most of the inhabitants of the earth to become ravenous undead zombies. Only a few survive. And one of the survivors is Peter Parker.

Interstellar threats. Viruses. Zombies. That's fun and all but the heart of the story is focused on Peter Parker, one of the last survivors, as he tries to protect the children of Reed and Sue (of the Fantastic Four) from the super-powered, cannibalistic aberrations that were once their friends and family. It turns out to be quite an epic and emotional roller coaster for Peter and his crew. Peter goes through a lot in this series, but he never loses his grip on who he is, no matter how much what he’s gone through has scarred him. Building the series around him was a shrewd move but I think a smart one. In the Marvel universe, he's the everyman character we can all relate to.

Fan faves Wolverine, Blade, Chewie, and Groot all show up. Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #4 leaves the door wide open for a sequel which could be neat. However, this is a perfect standalone story.

The art by Kirk isn't always clear, and it's a bit much and yes, Zombies have been way overdone. But I felt that this was a somewhat fresh spin on Zombies with a good story at its core. Check it out. show less

this was the turning point for me being willing to set aside my initial frustrations with how differently damian was being written versus where williamson's run left him. this is absolutely a version of damian that is informed by the many ways he's grown over the years. am i still sad that we're getting no real followup to the high note williamson left him on? sure. but this is absolutely my boy. i just had to give this run a chance. and it was well worth it.