Zombies come to Vietnam in ’68: Rule of War, a new 4-issue miniseries from Image Comics. The series is a follow-up to’68: Jungle Jim, the Horror Comic and Ghastly Award winning series from creators Mark Kidwell, Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.The series is set in an undead-infest Cambodia. CIA Special Agent Declan Rule and his dog, Nero, are on the trail of a neurosurgeon who has been performing brutal experiments on P.OW.s. Elsewhere, Private Kuen Yam leads a group of survivors through no-man’s-land in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam.Kidwell plans to highlight the horrors that humans do, rather than just the horrors of the undead:”Readers will see how a human imagination, backed up by years of medical and scientific education, can take a threat like a shambling, cannibalistic demon and make it worse by wiring it to a radio transmitter frequency, packing it with high explosives and aiming it at an unsuspecting opposition,” said Kidwell. “Also, with the dead, surgical application and augmentation could be performed without boundaries. The threat of ‘losing’ a patient due to lab table trauma is zero as long as you don’t destroy the brain. Think Frankenstein on steroids with the bedside manner of Joseph Stalin and you’re getting warm.”’68: Rule of War #1 will be released on April 2, 2014.
