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THE "DEAD-KILLER" SAGA
 

 NOTE:  THE DEADKILLER SAGA WAS REPRINTED!
from Image Comics in September, 2006.
 

To Kill a King
    This mini-series took place between volumes one and two. It was a three issue series that was later collected with the Dead-killer short stories that appeared in Deadworld issues 19-21. But before going into the mini-series, there was also a short story that appeared in the collected Dead-Killer.

The Survivors (a prose short story in Dead-Killer one shot)
    At the time, he didn’t know her name but it would later be revealed to be Katherine. The story tells of how Katherine and her husband had escaped to the woods in order to try and survive. The Dead-Killer admires her, perhaps he is even falling in love with her. He appreciates her strength. Her husband was killed by zombie…because he was careless. Shot by other humans who mistook him for a zombie. The Dead Killer had found him and cut him up so that Katherine would think it was the work of zombies. But she knew the truth.
    Katherine was pregnant and had delivered a baby boy. She wouldn’t let anyone see it and the Dead-Killer assumed the worse…somehow, the baby was a zombie. He couldn’t let it survive.
    One day Katherine called him in for a favor. She showed Dead-killer the boy. He wasn’t a zombie. But he was blind and retarded. Katherine knew he wouldn’t be able to survive in this world and she didn’t ever want him becoming a zombie. She asked if Dead-Killer could do a favor and he agreed.
    As Katherine stepped outside, Dead-killer approached the blind and retarded boy with a pillow. The boy would die as a human. 

To Kill a King…issue one
    Dead Killer, now with a stiletto blade replacing his missing hand, finds out that King Zombie and the Vamp, accompanied by Bowker, are utilizing a small carnival as a rendezvous point. When he arrives to track down KZ, he finds some of the people involved in the "freak show" are held prisoner. The group consists of a strongman, a clown, a tattoo girl, a tumbler, a fat man, and some other workers. Dead Killer surmises they’re being herded like cattle to serve as food.
    The Vamp talks to Bowker…she is upset as her current body is falling apart. It is obvious that the Vamp has developed a fondness for Bowker, although it certainly isn’t reciprocated. As Bowker leaves in disgust over Vamp’s sexual suggestions, he is captured by Dead-Killer. They plan a rescue but Bowker betrays Dead-Killer. After all, he wants to be on the winning side.
    Tied up in the funhouse, Vamp begins to torture Dead Killer but he manages to break free. He slices his knife through the head of Vamp. Bowker, meanwhile, finds the tattoo girl very attractive and she seems to be enamored with him as well. King Zombie and one of the Grakkens go inside the funhouse to find out what’s going on.
    Dead-Killer blows the Grakken’s head apart and King Zombie runs out of the funhouse with Dead Killer in hot pursuit. Dead-killer captures KZ and gets all of the carnival people free.
    Then, Dead-Killer lops off the head of King Zombie.

To Kill a King…issue two
    The carnival people are stunned. King Zombie is actually dead. They mourn their friend, the fat man who died of a heart attack earlier trying to fight off the zombies. The carnival people want revenge and start tearing into the zombies.
    To their surprise, the fat man is among them. They had thought he’d died but as the fat man approaches the Vamp and Bowker, they realize it isn’t the fat man anymore…the body has been taken over by King Zombie!
    Dead-Killer watches a small village and we know that he is a frequent visitor to this village as he watches the woman known as Katherine from afar. She has come here to fit into some kind of civilization but Dead-killer isn’t ready to join the human race.
    Bowker finds himself desiring the tattoo girl and manages to get her into bed. He finally, after all this time, has a living woman who wants him instead of the necrophilic Vamp. After they make love, the tattoo girl informs Bowker that it is indeed Vamp, who had taken over the body of the tattoo girl. Bowker was tricked.
    King Zombie, now in his fat man body, makes a deal with three humans to track down the Dead Killer. As they enter the town, they kill some of the people and King Zombie takes Katherine with him back to the carnival.
    Dead Killer comes into the town…he has finally ventured into it. After all, the King Zombie dead and maybe he can finally look for some sort of regular life. But he realizes it is a trap. He fights the three humans and kills two of them.
    King Zombie shows Katherine the power of his race as he stands before her and cuts off all of the fat off the body, taking it down to bone and muscle only.

To Kill a King…issue three
    Dead-Killer realizes he is being tracked by the third human bounty hunter and sets a trap for him. He finds out where King Zombie is and heads off towards the carnival, knowing it is a trap.
    Bowker turns down an offer from Katherine who would give anything to get away but Bowker knows that he doesn't have a chance against KZ and Vamp. KZ makes Bowker watch as the rest of the carnival people are slaughtered. Vamp rescues Bowker from the sight as she takes him in a truck to go and find out about another city they had heard about. It is a sign of compassion from Vamp who obviously loves Bowker and is frustrated by his lack of feeling for her.
    Katherine is tied up in the middle of the carnival, an obvious trap for Dead-Killer…but he comes anyway. He ahs no choice. King Zombie lets Katherine go in exchange for Dead-Killer to stay behind. KZ ties up Dead-Killer and then breaks his legs.
    As Bowker and Vamp are leaving, they find out that some people are heading towards them. Bowker wants to run but Vamp says they have to go back and get KZ.
    KZ is about to kill Dead Killer when shots ring out from the hill above. KZ runs off, leaving Dead-Killer…alive. We find out that it was Bowker that shot KZ although the Vamp doesn’t realize that. Katherine comes to Dead-Killer and tells him that the people of the village came to save him…after all, he is part of the human race.

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