Here is the twelve-card story for Robot Killer, from Rosem’s Midnight Madness Card Set. Story is by Steve Kiviat and illustrations by Alfredo Osorio. (Copyright 1990 by Rosem Enterprises.)
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Zombos Says: Good
I don't know, Diogenes. How can you be sure she's a bloodsucker?
Horatio–Do you think she'd be talking to a guy like that if she wasn't?
Okay, I'll admit this is one of my guilty pleasures of comic book reading. Although Roberson and Allred keep Gwen and her odd friends squeaky clean for a brain-munching zombie, a ghost with Barbie's fashion sense, and a moonlight-afflicted hairsute friend that looks like Zombos' miniature schnauzer in a hooded sweat top, this horror-lite series is fresh and lively with color and character.
In this issue Gwen finally meets Mr. Amon, the mysterious guy in the big, spooky house, and Spot's body-hairdo gets mussed when he's outed by his nerdy friend. His other nerdy friend is in neck-deep trouble with a paintball vamp hookup, but Horatio and Diogenes, the white coat dressed pair of investigators, are close at hand to stop her blood-pecking.
Or were close at hand until Gwen falls head over heels for Horatio. Actually, Gwen was practically tossed his way by the vamp when she collided into Gwen in front of Dixie's Diner. But it looks like Gwen and Horatio's chance meeting may blossom into something more.
The vamp, by the way, is the one on the right of the cover. Vamps always dress sassy, like vamps, so they're easy to spot. I'm not sure why Gwen insists on wearing green, though; it doesn't go well with her purple skin pallor at all. Browns and earth tones are more apropos for a cute zombie like her.
Zombos Says: Very Good
We've been on a lot of murders, Scully, and for the life of me, I can't recall one involving a 25-foot human popsickle. (Fox Mulder)
Wainright, Alaska.
It's going to be a very long night for Scully and Mulder: a human popsickle of headless truck drivers is sticking high out of the ground; Mulder didn't read the memo about wearing a coat; and fanged-fiends with a taste for blood and guilty pleasure for mangling their prey are afoot in the snowstorm.
Steve Niles, along with Adam Jones, serves up 30 Days of Nights' sexless, violently madcap vampires with the sexy Dana Scully and devil-may-care, madcap as a Fox Mulder in this smart crossover, six-issue series from IDW and Wildstorm.
The art by Tom Mandrake serves up the snowy drifts with the fearful nocturnals to chilling effect, making this twenty-two page issue a pleasing mouthful of setup for what promises to be a gripping story even Chris Carter can sink his teeth into for the big screen. (Chris, you owe us one, big time.) The ending splash page is one of the best hooks I've seen for picking up
the next issue.
The usual old–"just stay out of our way"– rivalries abound. Fox goes head to head with "Frenchy" and the local–way out of their depth–FBI contingent as evidence is bagged and tagged. Scully warns Mulder not to jump to the scent, but he's already hot on the trail after he learns blood's the one thing in short supply.
Between Frenchy and Mulder, want to bet who wins before the night is over?
This issue provided by DC Comics for review.
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