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Black, White & Blood
Marvel Zombies: Black, White & Blood
Collects Marvel Black, White and Blood #1-4.
An all-new era of Marvel Zombies! Daredevil, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Blade, the Punisher and many more are beset by ever-growing zombie hordes! A mad Reed Richards works in desperation. A lone warrior stands tall against a galaxy of undead. And the unstoppable X-Force faces its greatest foe yet! From New York City to a mystical forest full of gods and monsters to the now truly Savage Land, the plague has clawed its way everywhere - but in a brutal, bloodstained world, can hope survive? Or will creeping, gnawing, shambling horror win out at last? Find out as your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite!) creators tell the most haunting tales their minds can muster!
An all-new era of Marvel Zombies! Daredevil, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Blade, the Punisher and many more are beset by ever-growing zombie hordes! A mad Reed Richards works in desperation. A lone warrior stands tall against a galaxy of undead. And the unstoppable X-Force faces its greatest foe yet! From New York City to a mystical forest full of gods and monsters to the now truly Savage Land, the plague has clawed its way everywhere - but in a brutal, bloodstained world, can hope survive? Or will creeping, gnawing, shambling horror win out at last? Find out as your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite!) creators tell the most haunting tales their minds can muster!
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 2, 2024
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,628 books3,182 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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October 21, 2024
In this Marvel anthology, we’re treated to 12 short stories centered around the theme of Marvel Zombies. Although the stories are not directly connected, they could feasibly exist within the same timeline. As is typical in anthologies, some stories stand out more than others. My personal favorite was the one featuring Blade—by far the most promising in terms of potential for further development.
For those familiar with the "Black, White & Blood" series, you’ll already know that it’s the stunning artwork that makes this collection so compelling. The art is absolutely breathtaking from start to finish, with each artist bringing their own unique take on the use of red tones, adding depth and intensity to the visuals.
Overall, it's a solid read that offers a fresh take on the Marvel Universe, putting familiar characters in situations we don’t usually see them in.
For those familiar with the "Black, White & Blood" series, you’ll already know that it’s the stunning artwork that makes this collection so compelling. The art is absolutely breathtaking from start to finish, with each artist bringing their own unique take on the use of red tones, adding depth and intensity to the visuals.
Overall, it's a solid read that offers a fresh take on the Marvel Universe, putting familiar characters in situations we don’t usually see them in.
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October 28, 2024Only a week since I was saying I'd read all of Garth Ennis' Punisher, but turns out I was wrong; the opening story here sees the two of them together again as Frank keeps waging his war at the end of everything, Rachael Stott's art making ingenious use of the three-colour limitation to depict him as an annihilating void within the carnage of the undead rising. Continuity isn't a concern this time out – other stories depict the zombie apocalypse in Luke Cage's seventies New York, or Peach Momoko's Demon Days world (where, based on this sample, I couldn't even tell you the Marvel connection) – so the last issue has another Punisher take, in his stupid ninja version, which inevitably looks even worse when it's sharing a volume with the master. But there is other fun stuff here, like Steve Skroce having a whale of a time drawing rotting variants of a load of big Marvel heroes, not to mention reminding us that telling a great Blade story is much easier than the MCU is making it look. Gail Simone and Dale Eaglesham provide a note of pathos in among the carnage; elsewhere, I was gratified to see that, while nobody is sick enough to introduce Squirrel Girl*, my other favourite Marvel characters come through with flying colours, Beta Ray Bill because he's unbiteable, and Moon Knight because being a reanimated dead man trying to keep a killing hunger in check is nothing new for him.
*Apart from issues of taste, you have to assume she can't exist in these parallels, because if she did things would never have gotten this bad.
*Apart from issues of taste, you have to assume she can't exist in these parallels, because if she did things would never have gotten this bad.
January 8, 2024
That art on this series is beautiful and a lot of the stories are really good. It sucks that every story seems to be a completely different universe. I would have really liked if this had been various small stories set in the same universe. But seeing each team’s take on Marvel Zombies was worth it in the end. Incredibly dark and blunt ending in the last issue. I like how some of these stories bring in relatively unknown characters to tell these stories. I can’t imagine many people know Zabu, Shanna, or Ka-Zar. I barely know them and I’ve read at least two comics with them in it (their cards in Marvel Snap are great though). Seeing some of the gore design was upsetting and that’s one of the best parts of zombies. Love to see how repulsed they can make me.
August 5, 2025
Here we go again—Marvel dragging the half-decayed corpse of Marvel Zombies out of the crypt for one more shamble across your wallet. Black, White, and Blood sounds edgy and exciting, right? What we actually get is a lukewarm anthology that mostly just reminds us how great the first iteration of Marvel Zombies run was... over a decade ago.
Let’s start with the elephant in the room—or rather, the graveyard: these stories range wildly in tone, quality, and even effort. There’s a thin, barely noticeable thread tying them all together (something about “zombies bad?”), but it’s not enough to make this feel like anything more than a half-hearted buffet of B-side ideas.
The Reed Richards storyline at least tries to chew on something meaningful. It’s thoughtful, decently written, and actually feels like someone gave a damn. And then there's the Daredevil piece by Garth Ennis, which is criminally short—like someone handed him four pages and a shrug. It had potential. It had teeth. And then, poof, it was gone faster than a C-list hero in a zombie outbreak.
The rest? Ehhh. Let’s just say they make you appreciate how good the Darth Maul: Black, White, and Red series was. That anthology felt like it had purpose. This one feels like Marvel rummaged through the “what if” drawer in the writers' room and cobbled together whatever wasn’t already used.
To be fair, the concept of these blood-splattered anthologies can work. They’re a solid excuse for stylized art and quick-hit stories. But this one just lurches along, rarely rising above “fine,” and more often settling into “why did I buy this again?”
Final verdict: unless you’re a hardcore Marvel Zombies completionist or just really miss 2005, you can let this one rot.
Let’s start with the elephant in the room—or rather, the graveyard: these stories range wildly in tone, quality, and even effort. There’s a thin, barely noticeable thread tying them all together (something about “zombies bad?”), but it’s not enough to make this feel like anything more than a half-hearted buffet of B-side ideas.
The Reed Richards storyline at least tries to chew on something meaningful. It’s thoughtful, decently written, and actually feels like someone gave a damn. And then there's the Daredevil piece by Garth Ennis, which is criminally short—like someone handed him four pages and a shrug. It had potential. It had teeth. And then, poof, it was gone faster than a C-list hero in a zombie outbreak.
The rest? Ehhh. Let’s just say they make you appreciate how good the Darth Maul: Black, White, and Red series was. That anthology felt like it had purpose. This one feels like Marvel rummaged through the “what if” drawer in the writers' room and cobbled together whatever wasn’t already used.
To be fair, the concept of these blood-splattered anthologies can work. They’re a solid excuse for stylized art and quick-hit stories. But this one just lurches along, rarely rising above “fine,” and more often settling into “why did I buy this again?”
Final verdict: unless you’re a hardcore Marvel Zombies completionist or just really miss 2005, you can let this one rot.
October 19, 2024
This was fun! It's a collection of 12 one-shot, what-if type stories...all by different writers and artists that tell their own separate stories about what would happen to Marvel heroes in a zombie apocalypse. I'm a very casual comic reader, so there are some stories that were about characters I wasn't familiar with...but I still enjoyed them. Artwork is vastly different from one story to the next...some I loved and some was less to my taste but it was really fun to see how the different artists used the limited color palette. This was just a good time...no happy endings here to be found and for the characters I was familiar with...really tragic and heartbreaking at times. Would definitely read this again and would recommend for horror fans of Marvel. If you don't know ANYTHING about Marvel...like haven't even seen the movies to be familiar with the characters...then it might not be for you...just because they are super short stories so if you don't go in with a basic knowledge of who the people are...the stories will likely fall flat. I still liked the ones I wasn't familiar with...but they were the weakest for ME because I didn't have that emotional attachment. But I think this is a shining example of the Zombie genre done well...it doesn't matter where the virus comes from, who is to blame, the real horror is the inevitability of it all...seeing even heroes fall...seeing what they lose, etc. Good times.
June 23, 2025
There are some good bits to this but the format just doesn’t work for me anymore, 12 stories that are over within a few pages. I wanted the best ones to be much longer.
January 27, 2024
That was messed up
April 16, 2024
I wanted to get myself ready for the upcoming(I hope) animated marvel show, Marvel Zombies, by reading these comics. And well, while I do find the bravery of Marvel letting the writers and artists to go wild and full on R Rating, this was not something I wanted to read out of a marvel comic. It's like, really depressing. First two issues are especially brutal, maybe that's because we are also getting introduced to this cruel world. But also probably because the first two issues focuses on the more popular characters that everyone knows while the last two focuses on smaller characters.
The way this series works is that there are 4 issues with each issue consisting 3 short stories. So it's an anthology series with 12 stories in total, set in the same universe I believe but not connected to each other in any meaningful way. As with all anthology stories, there were ones I liked and ones I did not like. I especially liked the stories in first two issues because like I said, those focus on more popular and loved characters while last two issues focuses on secondary characters.
Overall, if you are looking for a book where Marvel heroes goes through terrible and brutal things, here is your book. Enjoy it. I would not specifically recommend this to anyone but I don't think it's bad. It just wasn't for me I think.
The way this series works is that there are 4 issues with each issue consisting 3 short stories. So it's an anthology series with 12 stories in total, set in the same universe I believe but not connected to each other in any meaningful way. As with all anthology stories, there were ones I liked and ones I did not like. I especially liked the stories in first two issues because like I said, those focus on more popular and loved characters while last two issues focuses on secondary characters.
Overall, if you are looking for a book where Marvel heroes goes through terrible and brutal things, here is your book. Enjoy it. I would not specifically recommend this to anyone but I don't think it's bad. It just wasn't for me I think.
October 28, 2024
Marvel Zombies era uma BD que queria muito ler e em boa hora chegou a publicação da G Floy Studio Portugal. Com arte de grandes nomes da nona arte, como Peach Momoko e Garth Ennis, entre outros, as expectativas eram altas.
À semelhança de outros volumes da coleção Preto, Branco & Sangue, este álbum escasseia em narrativa. Parece um arco de história focado em vísceras e sangue, do género Deadpool Mata o Universo Marvel, sem o humor que fez esse álbum muito bom, mas de facto esperava que este volume tivesse uma trama base, o que não se verificou.
Seja como for, é um álbum engraçado na forma como as personagens da Marvel se transformam e vivem uma verdadeira epidemia zombie, e a arte, heterogénea como seria de esperar numa obra com múltiplos autores, consegue a espaços agradar, sempre com uma composição extremamente inconsistente e gráfica.
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À semelhança de outros volumes da coleção Preto, Branco & Sangue, este álbum escasseia em narrativa. Parece um arco de história focado em vísceras e sangue, do género Deadpool Mata o Universo Marvel, sem o humor que fez esse álbum muito bom, mas de facto esperava que este volume tivesse uma trama base, o que não se verificou.
Seja como for, é um álbum engraçado na forma como as personagens da Marvel se transformam e vivem uma verdadeira epidemia zombie, e a arte, heterogénea como seria de esperar numa obra com múltiplos autores, consegue a espaços agradar, sempre com uma composição extremamente inconsistente e gráfica.
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December 3, 2024
Has like 3 OK stories, mainly the manga one, Blade and the Punisher. Everything else is just so bad. This is my first time reading any Zombies Marvel, but it just has no relationship at all with zombies. I mean,zombies talk and have feelings and plots, wtf? The only similarity with zombies is that they eat humans. I have no idea why they couldnt use zombies to try and make interesting stories, instead of this. It almost looks like the authors chosen for this project had no idea of what a zombie is and why some zombie stories are so good. Just shows lack of culture and effort.
November 12, 2025
Lavish jumbo size, interesting art work. Character driven rather than plot driven as with DCeased. Good illustration of the different approaches of each universe.
The theme of death represented in zombies is rich for exploration, but unfortunately since we live in a culture increasingly fixated with death, it has no hope to offer. This microcosm of that problem represents no surprises here.
Give me a zombie story with a convincing redemptive arc, and I will give you five stars.
The theme of death represented in zombies is rich for exploration, but unfortunately since we live in a culture increasingly fixated with death, it has no hope to offer. This microcosm of that problem represents no surprises here.
Give me a zombie story with a convincing redemptive arc, and I will give you five stars.
May 4, 2024
It's, 'Black, White & Blood' back for more anthology goodness...
This time? Hopeless 'Marvel Zombies' stories. It's not clear which zombie universe these short stories are from, but they're exceptionally bleak (as a zombie story should be)
Bonus: the list of writers on these stories is pretty great. Definitely worth a read
This time? Hopeless 'Marvel Zombies' stories. It's not clear which zombie universe these short stories are from, but they're exceptionally bleak (as a zombie story should be)
Bonus: the list of writers on these stories is pretty great. Definitely worth a read
April 20, 2025
the marvel zombies series is one of my all time favourites, seeing my favourite characters eat each other illicts a new emotion
also features my all time favourite daredevil art piece by marco checchetto
also features my all time favourite daredevil art piece by marco checchetto
August 14, 2025
Not impressed!
The art is distracting for a comic with bland coloring. I understand if it were for one story to have for all of them disappointed. I didn't even bother reading the others!
The art is distracting for a comic with bland coloring. I understand if it were for one story to have for all of them disappointed. I didn't even bother reading the others!
June 3, 2024
Started reading. Gave up. Tried again. Gave up again. Decided to make it through no matter what. Gave up again. Forced myself to read every page. Got through it but didn’t much enjoy anything.
September 26, 2025
Despite the centuries that have gone by the word that resonates: Hope.
September 27, 2025
the different art for each issue and extras is really amazing and i love the simple colour scheme, it really makes it more grim!!
August 4, 2024
+ Fantastic Four, Spiderman
- Everything else
- Everything else
September 2, 2024
So many creators and no-one really succeeded, even Garth Ennis did not deliver this time.
There were good bits the one by Gail Simone. That was a good one. But all together this was meh.
There were good bits the one by Gail Simone. That was a good one. But all together this was meh.
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