By Zack Quaintance — Folks, for our ONE HOT PANEL this week, I have in fact chosen not one, but two hot panels. You can rest assured, however, that they are both excellent. You see, they just so happen to come from DCeased: Unkillables #2, which is the sequel to last year’s surprise hit, DCeased, which is the DC Universe but techno-zombies. As you are no doubt now aware, it’s all very very dumb. But you know what? It’s also very very amazing.

In fact, from a certain perspective this is maybe the purest DC Comics story we’ve had with the publisher’s superheroes in years. We’re getting big action, long-standing character dynamics explored, and new bonds forged. Plus, it’s in its own continuity, and you know what that means — ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! And folks? Anything does happen, as you’re about to see in the totally bonkers panels I’ve picked to highlight as some of my favorites of the week. You can check those out right after the jump with all that good solicit info.

Enjoy!

DCeased: Unkillables #2

Panel One

So, this panel is excellent for two pretty obvious reasons: 1. It has a full-blown zombie Wonder Woman; 2. She’s ripping a dude (Vandal Savage, actually) sheer in half. These are the type of big dumb (and also amazing) moments that make this series work so well. You get a few pages of well-done classic character interactions — BAM — zombie busts in and wrecks @&#^. It’s great.

Panel Two

This panel features zombie Mirror Master taking it to now-zombie Bane, who was hanging out with non-zombie Ace the Bat-dog. This panel is excellent because it emphasizes the other thing that’s for sale with this book — you get to see the deep DC Comics bench of characters in situations you otherwise would not. Plus, zombies.

And I’m going to drop an One Honorable Mention Panel (jeez, the name of this thing is dumb) here…mostly because you can just feel that Solomon Grundy punch to Slade Wilson’s face…so clearly that you can’t help but say to yourself, comics!

DCeased: Unkillables #2 (of 3)
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Karl Mostert
Inkers: Trevor Scott, Neil Edwards, & Karl Mostert
Colorist: Rex Lokus
Letterer: Saida Temofonte
Publisher: DC Comics (‘natch)
Price: $4.99
Release Date: March 18, 2020
Solicit: With the world ending around them, Red Hood and Batgirl take shelter in the most unlikely place: an orphanage full of children! Will they be able to protect the kids from the impending hordes of the infected streaming out of Gotham City and Blüdhaven? And elsewhere, Deathstroke, Vandal Savage, and some of DC's worst villains battle the apocalypse out as an "Anti-Suicide Squad." But a certain wondrous woman may not let them have it their own way!

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.