This story is baffling on a number of levels. Marvel, who we’ve had a few friendly jousts with in the pasts here at the ZRC, has decided to capitalize on the current Zombie-hating mania with yet another of those ‘Insert Zombies into Public Domain Work Here’ titles, this time utilizing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as the basis for ‘A Zombie Christmas Carol’.

Only… they’re releasing it, tentatively, in Spring 2011:

Format and release date aren’t clear at this point, either — Marvel says “spring 2011,” but apparently it won’t start until at least April, as the comic did not appear in the publisher’s March solicitations, released today.

A Christmas Carol comic book… released in the spring. Hmm. I have no idea what to make of that timing. Did someone just think this up and they couldn’t make the end of year deadlines? Is there a printer on contract who had hours to burn? Why not wait until Winter 2011 to release it? I mean, who releases A Christmas Carol stuff around Easter?

Marvel, apparently. From the teaser art it looks like they’re going the standard ‘Zombies are bad, scary, yet darkly humorous’ route their company has routinely employed.

I guess, mysteries aside, one thing is clear: thanks to Marvel there will be a tiny piece of Christmas in July for Living Supremacists. God help us every one indeed.

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