''XXXombies'' is a four-issue
comic book
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mini-series
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written by
Rick Remender
Rick Remender (born February 6, 1973) is an American animator, comic book writer and television producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. As a comic book creator, he is best known
for his work on ''Uncanny X-Force'', ''Venom'', ''Captain A ...
, with art by
Kieron Dwyer
Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comics artist. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics as well as for his creator-owned projects.
Biography
During his career, Dwyer has worked on such comic book titles as ...
. It is the first series for Crawl Space, a line of horror comic books distributed by
Image Comics
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. The first issue was released on October 24, 2007, one week away from Halloween that year.
Plot
In 1977, a zombie-infected plane returning from
Haiti
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crashes into the
Hollywood sign
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, starting an infestation through the city. Meanwhile, a
sleazy adult-film producer by the name of Wong Hung Lau plans to film various pornographic movies in a sole weekend with the hopes of earning enough money quickly to pay a large debt he has with the Italian mafia. His plans soon fall apart when one of the performers gets turned into a zombie and Lau has to run, along with his film crew and the surviving actresses.
Among them is Jenny, a promiscuous but naive girl whose father, Steve Mitchum, just arrived to Los Angeles looking for her. Steve is an expert in the use of weapons and fireguns, and not even the apocalypse would stand on his way.
As Lau's group tries to survive the horrors of a city overrun by vicious zombies, a group of mobsters tracks them, looking for their payment at first, and later vengeance, even taking Jenny's former pimp as a guide/hostage.
Steve and the criminals both find what's left of the crew (Jenny, other two actresses and a rookie sound engineer) at the same time, who where engaged in an "end-of-the-world orgy". Jenny's friends are killed but the crime boss wants the father and daughter to suffer before they die, so orders his goons to rape them both. A discussion between the boss and a homophobic underling allows the zombified sound engineer to rise up and attack them, which in turn allows Steve to kill their captors (and Jenny to kill her pimp) and escape.
The comic then flashforwards to some time later. Wong Hun Lau (who escaped prior to the encounter with the mobsters) was living a luxurious life by prostituting zombified celebrities, when a truck makes a quick stop in his mansion. Their occupants are Jenny and Steve, who unceremoniously kill Lau with a shotgun blast and drive off.
Characters
*Wong Hung Lau - Chinese adult film director
*Steve Mitchum - truck driver and survivalist
Collected editions
The series has been collected into a
trade paperback:
*''Crawl Space: XXXombies'' (96 pages, Image Comics, June 2008, )
Film adaptation
Rick Remender has said that he and Dwyer are working on a ''XXXombie'' screenplay.
See also
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Fear Agent
''Fear Agent'' is an American science fiction comic book series written by Rick Remender with art by Tony Moore and Jerome Opena, who alternated on story arcs. The series was published by Dark Horse Comics from 2007 to 2018 and by Image Comics f ...
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Sea of Red
''Sea of Red'' is an American comic book series published from 2005 to 2006 by Image Comics. Featuring 16th century vampire pirates, the series was written by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer and drawn by Salgood Sam and Paul Harmon.
Collected e ...
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Notes
References
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External links
Crawl Space: XXXombies #1 review Comics Bulletin
Comics Bulletin was a daily website covering the American comic-book industry.
History Silver Bullet Comicbooks
The site was founded in January 2000 as Silver Bullet Comicbooks by its New Zealand-based publisher/editor Jason Brice.
During this ...
Comics by Rick Remender
Fiction set in 1977
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