DEADWORLD
VOLUME TWO
issue by issue synopsis

    This picks up after the events of volume one and the To Kill a King mini-series.
A considerable amount of time has passed. King Zombie’s body pretty much looks the same as before
and all of the characters are in the same location they were at the end of volume one.

Issue one
    Opens up with John traveling through a blizzard as he searches for his son. John realizes that he went out too far and zombies are all around him. He won’t survive. He strips down and allows himself to freeze, hoping that he freezes to death before the zombies find him.
    It is revealed that Stacey and John’s relationship had ended. Stacey was also pregnant, it was her child that the Oracle had sensed. Albert had left a couple months ago to find his parents and hasn’t been heard from since. Clarence tries to convince Kirk and Stacey to go down to the Caribbean as the weather is at least nice. Kirk and Stacey have feelings for each other but aren’t ready to admit it to each other, much less themselves.
    Bowker is on a rendezvous mission in a city when he is surprised by Reyna. She offers him a chance to come back but he isn’t sure he can trust her.
    We find out that Albert has been captured by King Zombie and KZ wants Albert to be his chronicler…something to pass on to posterity. Albert does it…after all, he has to survive.
    Another Oracle appears to King Zombie. It has found Deake.
    The Oracle also informs King Zombie that the Master has split into two forces because of the gates not being opened. One is the spiritual form that is inhabiting different forces and calls itself Amy. The other is in human form but that form does not even know it is part of the Master. The two forms must be re-united to reform the Master.
    Dan and Joey are still traveling when they spot a small band. They decide to check it out before approaching. They are shocked when they see the last person they expected to see alive…Donna.

Issue two
    Reyna begins her plan as she comes into Moloch’s room. Moloch has been kept under tight security and drugged up but Reyna has been secretly keeping him off the drugs. She is sleeping with the organization’s leader, Jaxson, who thinks Reyna is on his side.
    Bowker lures Vamp into a trap, letting her think that he has finally accepted her. However, when her back is turned, he shoots her in the head so that she doesn’t have time to get into another body.
    Reyna kills Jaxson and lets Bowker know that her and Moloch have taken over the city. Bowker sends a signal to King Zombie that now is the time.
    Donna is stunned as Dan and Joey enter the gang’s camp. Donna hasn’t forgiven Dan and wants nothing to do with him. Dan decides he might as well leave but this time, Joey says no. He is tired of running.
    Dan is shot as he tries to escape.

Issue three
    Kirk, Stacey, and Clarence are driving south, heading towards the islands. Kirk has a flashback of when he was out on a hunt and he and his companions were trapped by snow. Some of the men had resorted to cannibalism and Kirk realized then that perhaps man was no better than the zombies.
    Punk and Eddie find Wolverine chained up in a basement.
    Bowker’s plan is to help Moloch take over the city and then turn over Deake to KZ. That will stop the zombies from attacking the city but the takeover is taking time and King Zombie is fast losing his patience.
    As a man kills a father and about to take liberties with a little girl that he strangled, an energy force inhabits the dead girl. She ends up killing the man. Later she is found wandering the woods and is taken in by the motorcycle gang as they search for the body of Dan whom they shot. They take in the girl although they guess Dan’s body was taken by zombies.
    King Zombie declares war…he is tired of dealing with humans.
    Donna asks the little girl her name…Amy. Amy suddenly freezes as she realizes that somewhere in the camp, her other half is there in human form.

Issue four
    The new leader of Jaxson’s men refused to allow Moloch to take over and is about to kill Moloch and Bowker when they are saved by Punk, Eddie, and Wolverine. Moloch is in control now.
    The city is under siege from the zombies and it is a battle royal.
    Bowker comes out to talk to King Zombie and complete the deal they had before. Bowker turns over Deake, not understanding why KZ wants him so bad. King Zombie says his zombies have to feed but Bowker says the city is off limits. Bowker tells King Zombie of a motorcycle camp not too far away. Bowker figures eventually that they will have to take care of them…so why not let the zombies do it.
    Amy is in the camp searching for her other self that will complete her as the Master. She is drawn to Joey who sits next to Percy. Although strange, Percy is one of the few friends that Joey has.
    As her hand is just about to touch Joey, Donna pulls her away…the zombies are coming.

Issue five
    As the zombies attack the motorcycle camp, the Oracle says to call it off as it can sense both of the Master’s presences there…but they’re still dis-connected.
    Amy searches for Joey during the battle and is about to connect with him, when Donna grabs her to take her to safety. Amy is furious…but sees her chance when Donna asks Joey to take Amy.
    He does. They touch. Nothing happens. Amy can’t believe it. She was so sure.
    As Moloch takes charge of the city, a dead body has an energy force come into it. The once dead figure stands and watches for someone before it spies who it was looking for. Bowker. Now we know the Vamp has managed to secure a new body. She swears revenge on Bowker.
    At the camp, the human forces are dwindling. And as Joey hands Amy off to Percy, a surge of electricity hits the area. It was Percy that was the other half of the master. Now the Master is complete!
    A few survivors flee the camp when they are stopped by a lone man coming towards the camp. They recognize who it is because now this man is legendary…it is the Dead-Killer. He heads towards the camp.
    King Zombie uses one of the prisoners at the camp as the live sacrifice and enacts Deake to do the gate opening. The gates begin to open and some creatures begin to appear….

Issue six
    As the gates are opening, the Master grows in power. He is no longer Percy and transforms into the Demon Lord.
    Albert helps Donna, Joey, and another woman to get away and they come across the Dead-Killer. All of them realize that they have to stop Deake from fully opening the gates so they all go back to the camp.
    As the gates open, the first to cross the threshold are the demonflytes…and then the demon dogs.
    Dead-Killer has only one chance and although he wants to kill King Zombie, he switches at the last moment and puts a bullet through Deake’s head. The gates close.
    Before they can go after King Zombie, the demon dogs…terrifying beasts that are very fast…are upon them. The one woman is killed almost immediately. The remaining three empty their guns into the demon dog and finally, it drops.
    King Zombie is furious the gates closed early. The master is still too weak to be much of a force but King Zombie notices that many of the dead things will return to life…such as some of the animals.
    Dead-Killer takes Donna and Joey to a small outpost where Katherine is in charge of the medical area. As Donna and Katherine talk, Katherine is working on a patient and Donna discovers that it is Dan.

Issue Seven
    Donna helps Dan to recuperate but Dan is plagued by voices in his head. Joey asks Dead-Killer a lot of questions but no answers are forthcoming.
    Vamp finds a young couple and she kills the man and takes over the body of the girl. She is pleased with her choice, feeling Bowker will be pleased as well.
    Dan leaves the compound…trying to find the source of the voices in his head. He runs through the woods until he comes up to the source. It is the new Voodoo Queen and she claims he and her share a mind link…and are destined to be together forever.

Issue eight
    Albert continues his chronicles of King Zombie, under the scrutiny of the King, of course.
    Dead-Killer has some frustrations in getting Joey trained and decides to take him to a small town called Brunson. They give Dead-Killer ammunition in exchange for a favor that Dead-Killer is doing for them but Joey doesn’t know what the favor it. There, Joey meets Darcy, the daughter of the town leader.
    Joey is curious, especially since Darcy kissed him, why the two towns don’t get together. Dead-Killer informs him that they can’t because the people of Brunson are lepers.
    Vamp, in her new body, visits a tattoo parlor to have her body decorated like Bowker wanted. Norm, the artist, has the unique opportunity to do a body that doesn’t feel pain so he can be as elaborate as he wants. After he finishes Vamp, he is about to kill her because she has told him of all the humans she has killed. But he can’t. Her body is his greatest masterpiece. Surprisingly, she kisses him instead of killing him and he feels that perhaps the human spirit will go on…even in the dead.
    As King Zombie is riding his skeletal horse, he is surprised by another gate opening but this one is different…and inside are three mysterious beings known as "The Kings of the Plane".
(NOTE: Between issues eight and nine, the crossover epic of Realm of the Dead occurred as King Zombie traveled to the world of the Realm for a three issue series)

Issue nine
    Albert, imprisoned in a cave finds out that he shares it with the Master. However, the master is too weak to do anything. Albert is surprised by another person, RAND, who is leader of a band of lepers who show the full symptoms of the disease.
    Joey goes to Katherine to get her medical advice about Darcy and her leprosy. Joey is scared because Darcy kissed him and he’s worried he’d might get it. Katherine informs him that the people of Brunson don’t have a natural form, they were injected with a special kind…and besides, Darcy doesn’t have it at all.
    Bowker finds that he has to contend with a gang of cutthroat humans who call themselves the Scavengers and travel around stealing food and equipment and slaughtering anyone that gets in their way.
    Rand leads Albert to an underground city and promises to reveal what it is about.
    Vamp is about to enter the city as she spies on Bowker. She is willing to give him one more chance. He’s killed her before but she can’t deny her love for him.
    Dead-killer leads many of the townspeople to a hill to watch a small band of people getting slaughtered by zombies. They are too far away to help but he wants them to watch so that the townspeople will realize what happens if they get complacent about the zombie menace.

Issue ten
    The Voodoo Queen summons up more of the dead to rise and Dan joins her in the rituals.
    Bowker, after his training exercise reveals his expert skills, decides to go after the menace of the Scavengers himself.
    Darcy and Joey talk and Darcy reveal the history of the Brunson research. Many of the people there were taken away and tested with different drugs and stuff. Leprosy was introduced into many of them as the laboratory doctors thought there might be a connection between the leprosy (dealing with dying tissues) and the zombie menace. The Brunson people were rescued but many of them carried the disease full term.
    Rand tells Albert about how his people discovered Albert’s journals. Albert has created a testimony of the supernatural holocaust since the beginning and Rand wants Albert to be the voice that the future will read to understand all that has gone on. King Zombie finds that the zombies are no longer under his control as something or someone else has taken them over.

Issue eleven
    Rand explains the experiments. The choice to sacrifice some people for the greater good of the human race. They used leprosy to kill the tissues and then tried to reanimate the dead tissue…but all of their attempts failed.
    Bowker finds out about the home base of the Scavengers and decides to wipe them out and kill some of the townspeople as an example. It is revealed that the town protecting the Scavengers is the town that Katherine and Donna are in. Punk and Eddie witness the scene and decide they no longer want to be part of Moloch and his organization.
    In Rand’s hidden city, the demonflytes let King Zombie know that Albert is there and King Zombie sends the dogs and Grakken there to get Albert back.

Issue twelve
    Rand and his people beat off King Zombie’s attack and KZ becomes distracted because of the Voodoo Queen’s army of undead who go to attack King Zombie and his forces.
    Dead-Killer finds out about the scavengers and can’t believe the town would protect them. Then he finds out that the Scavengers were just kids and the sons of some of the residents. They felt they had too. Dead-Killer is furious when he finds out that Katherine was abducted along with Donna.
    Darcy finds her brother…he was one of the Scavengers as well but now he’s dead.
    King Zombie is displeased when he finds out the zombies attacking Rand have left to come back and wonders why they have dis-obeyed his order. To his dismay, he finds they are now under the control of the Demon Lord.
    Dead-Killer allows Joey to come with him to Moloch’s base and Joey realizes that now, he may have to kill humans instead of zombies. But to get Donna back, he’s willing to do it. Dead-Killer sends the remaining townspeople to Rand’s underground city for safety.

Issue thirteen
    The Demon Lord takes over from King Zombie and orders the Grakken to tear him apart.
    Bowker is the one that has taken Katherine. He admires her and wants to keep her for himself although she warns him that Dead-Killer will come for her. Bowker knows that.
    King Zombie summons some demonic forces from the Realm and bests the Demon Lord, and now establishes the full power over the zombies in the area. However, he finds himself in a test of wills with the approaching Voodoo Queen and they both struggle with control of the zombies.
    Dead-Killer and Joey sneak into Moloch’s compound as Bowker decides to make Katherine his and rapes her.

Issue fourteen
    The Voodoo Queen and King Zombie continue their battle, as it is zombie against zombie in an all out war. King Zombie decides to go after the Queen directly and is stunned when he finds her in the arms of Dan…a thorn in his side since day one.
    As they search the compound, Joey and Dead-Killer find Donna. Dead-Killer stays to get Katherine and makes Joey take Donna back to Rand’s underground city.
    King Zombie and Voodoo Queen face down. The Queen manages to subdue King Zombie enough to get away. By doing so, she had to release her hold on the zombies…and Dan. Dan is furious, as he knows that she took control of his mind.
    Katherine vomits after Bowker leaves. She is shocked when she turns and it is not Bowker who she sees but Vamp in her new body.
    Dan refuses to be with the Voodoo Queen even though she promises him incredible power.
    Dead-Killer comes into Bowker’s room. He spies Katherine and goes to her. She is dead.

Issue fifteen
    King Zombie has defeated the Demon Lord and wants to exterminate him but the Oracle says that disaster will occur if he does that. The Demon Lord holds everything together.
    Joey and Donna find safety in Rand’s city and Joey finds a new family with Darcy’s.
    Bowker comes into his room and finds out Dead-Killer is there. Bowker is surprised that Katherine’s dead and protests his innocence. Dead-Killer doesn’t care. They fight.
    Bowker is highly skilled but so too is Dead-Killer…the battle is hard fought but at the end, Dead-Killer slits Bowker’s throat.
    Dan leaves the Voodoo Queen and promised himself to find his friends.
    Vamp finds Bowker dead and says she’ll find a way to get him back.
    King Zombie decides to kill the Demon Lord even against the warnings by the Oracle. He sends the swirling masses to devour the Lord. As the Master is consumed the sky rips open and energies spill out and surround King Zombie and tear at his very fabric of being. With an explosion of energy, all that is left of King Zombie is his sunglasses, lying on a pile of dust.

End of Volume Two

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