Celebrating spooks, scares, and flesh-eating zombies this Halloween Horror Month, AWA Studios’ thrilling and gory hit series returns when YEAR ZERO: VOL. 0 arrives on October 5. This time, a new writer and artist take the reins of this fan-favorite series to lay out the deadly zombie pandemic origin story that shows how the world was plunged into chaos.
YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is an action-packed 4-issue prelude written by The New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and illustrated by award-winning artist Goran Sudžuka (HELLBLAZER, WONDER WOMAN). In the series, this creative team unveils four globe-spanning tales from the earliest days of the zombie apocalypse when even the wildest rumors couldn’t measure up to the horror to come.
YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 SYNOPSIS
In this action-packed prelude to the hit series, acclaimed horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Autumnal) unveils four globe-spanning tales from the earliest days of the zombie apocalypse when even the wildest rumors couldn’t measure up to the horror to come. A streetwise Russian cop patrols the back alleys of the opportunistic black market that emerges in response to the crisis…a North Korean soldier observes strange happenings on the DMZ…An E.R. nurse in the rural South fights to protect her hospital from threats without and within…A transgender flight attendant who has observed disturbing clues as she crisscrosses the globe keeps a wary eye on the passenger in seat 23C.
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