Infestation issue 1
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 26, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | January 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning | ||||||||||||
| Art by | David Messina, Elena Casagrande | ||||||||||||
| Art assist by | Claudia Balboni | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Gaetano Carlucci | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | ScarletGothica | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Robbie Robbins | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Bobby Curnow | ||||||||||||
Vampires vs. Zombies. And a blurry image of a Transformer.
Synopsis
At the Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex, New Mexico, Wade supervises a cleanup of a zombie outbreak. During the cleanup, Wade's team found deeply classified tech equipment, including an inter-dimensional portal into "Dimension Z". Wade explains to corporate and military bigwigs that this dimension, currently infested with zombies, would provide a world of resources once the zombies were cleared out. As Wade stands in front of the portal, zombies reach through and pull him in, which shouldn't be possible, according to scientists. With a shower of blood, the zombies then break through and begin attacking the complex.
At CVO Coffin HQ, Cross has a nightmare about his family turning into zombies before he is awakened by Britt, who informs him of an emergency briefing about the Kirtland situation. Covert Vampiric Operations director Overmars orders the team to go into the Kirtland complex, shut down the portal and rescue an surviving top brass. The CVO Artillica-Smith, Benny says he can teleport the team in using the Artillica.
Bools, Cross, Britt and Benny teleport into Kirtland and begin blasting zombies while Benny works on shutting down the portal. Unfortunately, Benny (already a zombie) begins to be affected by the Undermind and collapses. The others carry him away, but the other zombies rip off his arm holding the Artillica. Benny regains some of his sanity as the team crawls through the roof and explains some about the Undermind, but as the zombies get closer, the Undermind takes over Benny again, and he bites Britt on the leg. She kicks him off to the zombie horde below, and tells the others that she can't be affected by the bite, since she's already an undead vampire. Fortunately, the team makes it to a room filled with military robots.
Benny leads the zombies to the CVO Artillica Storage Compound, where the zombies kill the workers and Benny grabs a piece of equipment. Meanwhile, the CVO team finds a Sci-bot that can help them activate the robots. Unfortunately Britt's zombie bite starts affecting her. Just as the war-bots activate, Britt screams in pain and Benny teleports in and abducts her.
Since Britt is now a vampire-zombie ("undead squared"), Benny and the Undermind use her as living Artillica to open portals to other dimensions for the zombies to spread. Cross and Bools lead the war-bots in and blast the zombies and knock out Benny. Cross momentarily gets Britt to listen to him before she becomes possessed again and zaps him into a wall. Bools then blows her head off, which promptly heals itself, and she attacks the robot he was controlling. The robot is infected with the zombie virus, and she does the same to some of the other 'bots. The sci-bot, which was being ignored, grabs the Artillica equipment and tosses it into the portal, which causes it to start sucking everything in the room into it. Four versions of Britt split from her and the original Britt gains sanity for a second before the portal explodes.
Once the Undermind is cut off, all the zombies keel over, and Benny regains his mind. He jury-rigs the original portal to allow viewing into it, without the Undermind getting out. He explains that Britt opened up portals into four alternate Earths, and that a part of her went into each, along with zombies and robots. He initiates a protocol to allow searching of the different universes to local the parts of Britt. The four portals display the worlds of the Ghostbusters, Starfleet, G.I. Joe, and the Transformers.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Humans | Vampires | Others | Decepticons |
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Notes
- Though Snake-Eyes is part of Cover A, he is not actually featured in G.I. Joe: Infestation.
Covers (4)
- Cover A: A zombie hand "rips" the page and displays Snake-Eyes, Spock, Optimus Prime, and Peter Venkman. Art by Gabriel Rodriguez.
- Cover B: A zombie hand "rips" the page and displays zombie-fied robots, zombies and the CVO team. Art by John K. Snyder III and colors by Jason Wright.
- Cover RI: Zombie-fied robot. Art by Ashley Wood.
- Second Printing Cover: Sketch variant of Cover A. Art by Ashley Wood.
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Snake-Eyes, Spock, Optimus Prime and Bill Murray walk into a bar... -
Cover B -
Incentive Cover -
The zombies scared the color outta them!
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