DCeased: Unkillables (original 2020; edición 2021)

A spin-off from DCeased that is happening at the same time but doesn't so much cross over as suffer from the aftershocks of the events there. As the world is overrun with Anti-Life zombies, a group of villains led by Vandal Savage takes refuge on a small Pacific Island to wait out the disaster. Meanwhile, James Gordon has retreated to Bludhaven with a couple Bat-family antiheroes -- Jason Todd and Cassandra Cain -- and finds himself protecting the survivors of an orphanage. As is wont to happen in zombie fiction, the situation deteriorates and the two storylines collide.

More muted than the mothership, events pick up at the end while still almost succeeding at getting -- huh? -- heartwarming?? It's a satisfying read, but the script is a bit clumsy at times as it tries to balance humor and drama, and the plot certainly has a lot of dangling strings that will not hold up to any sort of tugging. Good popcorn fare though. ( )