How did the idea for MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN come about?
Fred Van Lente: The basic idea here is that absence makes the heart grow fonder-or tastier. We haven’t seen the big marquee hero zombies like Spider-Man or Wolverine since MARVEL ZOMBIES 2. As everybody knows, we took the Marvel Zombies concept and went in completely different directions with it for MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 and MARVEL ZOMBIES 4, and I think it was just decided that it was time to revisit those zombies that we started out with and see what they’re up to and what happened to them after they were zapped from their original universe at the end of MARVEL ZOMBIES 2. Marvel.com: All the issues take place in present day then? They’re not flashbacks to the back stories of these characters? Fred Van Lente: No, not at all. It’s a continuation of their saga. They all got zapped out of their universe and in MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN we learn where they got zapped to and what havoc they’ve wreaked once they got there. Marvel.com: You write the first issue, which kicks everything off and focuses
