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:A TALE OF ZOMBIES VS ALIENS
THE STORY SO FAR… Aliens have landed; zombies have attacked. The Carbon Falls Collective is in disarray as the town is under siege by re-animated loved ones. An alien is bitten, too, and the result is unexpected—the alien blood counteracts the zombie virus, so the infection doesn’t spread— instead, it awakens the long-dead human consciousness inside the zombified body. The shorter time the body’s been dead, the more consciousness it has and the longer it stays (dead for a long time, there’s only a blip of consciousness, like a chicken with its head cut off still). This disorients the townspeople at the worst time—right as the zombie horde assaults them, trapping the survivors in Huxley’s family home. Elsewhere: Hux, Jerrold and Bemis the alien are aboard the extraterrestrial vessel, searching for protection and weapons, but now may be too late to use anything they found. And speaking of findings, ATF Agent Lew Dawson, who has secretly infiltrated the township only to find himself trapped in town and pursued by zombies, has taken refuge under Hux’s barn. Which is where he makes a surprising discovery…
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THE COLONIZED #3. JUNE 2013. FIRST PRINTING. © 2013 Chris Ryall and Idea and Design Works, LLC. All rights reserved. © 2013 Idea and Design Works, LLC. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street, San Diego CA 92109. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
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