The Infestation begins...

   If you follow @NerdOnDemand on twitter (and you don't), you've seen me send out a few tweets concerning the "Infestation" which i never fully explained. Well, the Infestation was unleashed Jan. 26.


   Infestation #1 was the kick-off of IDW Publishing's first major crossover event featuring a new take on the zombie apocalypse as the hungry undead battle an impressive line-up including the Transformers, G.I. Joe, the Ghostbusters, and even the original crew of Star Trek. It's quite an unusual line-up.


(spoilers)


   Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning, Infestation #1 starts off by introducing us to the CVO (Covert Vampiric Operation) team, a squad of vampires and supernatural beings that are brought in by the military whenever there's a job no human could handle.
   Seems a inter-dimensional portal to Dimension Z has been opened at a top-secret military installation somewhere in the desert of New Mexico and things have not gone as planned as an army of undead come thru the portal and begin to wreak havoc and zombie mischief. The CVO are soon transported to zombie ground zero to stop the outbreak and rescue any government officials that may have survived.
   Things take a turn for the worse as the Undermind, the collective force driving the zombies to spread their chaos across the universe, takes over the minds of several team members, Benny, who's in charge of magically-enhanced technology, and Britt, a big-breasted female vampire assassin, and use them to open inter-dimensional portals to other worlds.
   The CVO is able to shut the portals down but not before the Undermind spreads it's zombie virus into four separate universes, each universe now containing a part of Britt's soul(for lack of a better term).
   Although the CVO has saved their world from a certain zombie apocalypse for the time being, they realize that the only way to be sure it's gone forever is to go into the four universes and recover the four pieces of Britt's soul.
   And the story continues..


Infestation: Transformers #1-Feb 2nd
Infestation: Star Trek #1-Feb. 9th
Infestation: Transformers #2-Feb. 16th
Infestation: Star Trek #2-Feb. 23rd
Infestation: G.I. Joe #1-March 2nd
Infestation: Ghostbusters #1-March 9th
Infestation: G.I. Joe #2-March 16th
Infestation: Ghostbusters #2-March 23rd


and the story concludes in
Infestation #2-April 6th


   And spinning out of Infestation are 2 new mini-series: Transformers: Hearts of Darkness & a new Zombies vs Robots.




*If your local comic store is sold out of Infestation #1, a 2nd printing will be available starting Feb.16th! For more information go to www.idwpublishing.com