Year Zero (2)

Upshot’s hit series Year Zero returns with four new harrowing tales of survival from around a post apocalyptic world, set several months after the events on Volume One: A grizzled Norwegian sea captain and her two young grandchildren navigate an ocean teeming with undead while eluding the relentless pirates on their trail. A Colombian cartel boss indulges all of his most sadistic whims unaware that a threat far greater than zombies is headed toward his jungle fortress. A Rwandan doctor must overcome the crippling fear that has plagued him all his life as he stumbles through the African bush. And a pregnant woman barricaded in an American big box store discovers that the greatest threat to her life – and her unborn child’s – might not be undead. Benjamin Percy (Wolverine, X-Force) once again pens this global look at the zombie apocalypse, now joined by artist Juan Jose Ryp (Britannia) and colorist Frank Martin (Infinity Wars).

allowing the series as a whole to explore different moral (and existential) questions relating to the relentless, shambling threat.” -- Graeme McMillan

“A new take on the zombie apocalypse idea, YEAR ZERO looks at an undead pandemic by focusing on small stories across the world as individuals struggle to come to terms with what’s happening

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“By making the characters the focus of the story, the zombie infested world merely the backdrop to the comic, the first volume of YEAR ZERO was a rip roaring success. With this second volume Benjamin Percy continues to do everything which worked well in the first volume but with brand new, and if anything more interesting, characters. Fans of the first volume will lap this up, as will fans of the walking dead. It's a great jumping on point as well if you haven't read the comic yet. The art is incredible and the icing on the cake.” -- Nick Devonald

About the Author

Benjamin Percy is the author of five novels -- including The Ninth Metal, published with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June 2021 -- as well as three story collections and a book of essays. He writes Wolverine and X-Force at Marvel Comics and Year Zero and Devil's Highway for AWA Studios. He has also written for DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment and is known for his celebrated runs on Green Arrow, Teen Titans, Nightwing, and James Bond. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in Esquire (where he was a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Ploughshares, Tin House, McSweeney's, and the Paris Review. He wrote two seasons of the audio drama -- Wolverine -- produced by Marvel and Stitcher. The first season, "Wolverine: The Long Night," was listed as one of the top 15 podcasts of the year by Apple and won the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. His other honors include the Whiting Award, an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, and Best American Comics.

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