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30 March 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Releasing a new zombie comic onto today’s ghoul-filled shelves might seem like beating a dead horse, unless you’ve a got a super-cool approach—and Mark Rahner definitely does. Debuting in May from Moonstone Books is Rotten, an undead Western he co-wrote with Robert Horton, featuring art by Dan (Tall Tales) Dougherty. The storyline follows Civil War veteran William Hade, who’s pulled back into service as a secret agent for President Rutherford B. Hayes. His mission is to control a terror crisis plaguing the nation: that of living corpses violently making their way through the West.

Perhaps the best thing about Rotten is Rahner’s determination not to camp it up, but play it with real Western grit. “Rotten started out as a combo of genres that I’d always wanted to see smashed together,” he tells Fango. “Zombies, Westerns and secret agents, and dark—not ruined by a tongue-in-cheek approach. »

1 article from 2009