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Victorian Undead
Publication data
Publisher	Wildstorm
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Express series
Genre	Steampunk
Publication engagement	January– June 2010
No. of issues	half dozen
Principal graphic symbol(due south)	Sherlock Holmes Doctor Watson
Creative squad
Written past	Ian Edginton
Artist(s)	Davide Fabbri
Letterer(s)	Saida Temofonte
Colorist(s)	Carrie Strachan
Editor(due south)	Ben Abernathy Kristy Quinn
Collected editions
Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies	ISBN 1-4012-2840-two
Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula	ISBN 140123268X

Victorian Undead is a serial of comics near Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson dealing with the supernatural. The first serial Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies is a six-issue American comic volume express series published by Wildstorm. The serial was written by Ian Edginton, with fine art by Davide Fabbri. The story is set in Victorian England and follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Information technology was followed by Victorian Undead Special: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jekyll/Hyde (one issue) and a second series Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (five problems), which sees Holmes and Watson helping to track down the title character (Count Dracula) before he kills Queen Victoria.

Publication history [edit]

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The first serial ran in early 2010^[1] and the 2d in early 2011 – equally Wildstorm folded during that period, the terminal three issues were published straight past the parent company, DC Comics.^[ii]

Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies (Plot) [edit]

Issue 1: The Star of Ill-Omen [edit]

In 1854, a foreign comet enters over London, releasing picayune fragments in which 1 fragment penetrates into a street pump most Broad Street in Soho. Five months later, Soho suffers what appears to be a cholera outbreak. Doctor John Snow and Reverend Henry Whitehead investigate the outbreak. While Snow postulates the cause for the outbreak, Reverend Whitehead discusses a contempo confession from a tanner's amateur about the dead coming back to life. Before long afterwards, one of Snow's deceased patients is resurrected as a zombie in front of a shocked Snow and Whitehead.

By 1898, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson investigate a adventurer who has been hypnotizing unsuspecting people into revealing their secrets. The charlatan turns out to be an advanced automaton and is disabled during a struggle with Holmes and Watson. The two are perplexed at this discovery, in which Holmes deduces that the machine was controlled by an unknown person, who personally knows Holmes. Meanwhile, two workmen at an clandestine railway structure thousand encounter a corpse. I of the workmen sees a gold ring on the corpse and greedily attempts to advisable information technology, but the corpse comes to life and bites him. The zombie is decapitated by the other workman, but he is as well attacked and bitten by his coworker, who turns into a zombie.

At Baker Street, Holmes and Watson later study the automaton and are so urgently summoned to Scotland Thou by Inspector Lestrade over what appears to be a murder betwixt the aforementioned workmen earlier they are brought to one of the zombified workmen and a functioning caput of the discovered zombie. However, Holmes and Watson are forced to call off their investigation by British Secret Service agents.

Issue 2: The Skull Beneath The Skin [edit]

Despite being warned by British Intelligence, Holmes and Watson continue their investigation and search for where the zombie was discovered. The two dig into the earthwork and notice themselves in an underground metropolis dating back to ancient London. They so find a corpse pile and await into its contents to find that some of the corpses are barely a year old. Before long they are surrounded by a horde of zombies. Being driven to a corner while learning that shooting the zombies in the caput will finer dispatch them, Holmes and Watson are saved by the arrival of heavily armed and armored Regal Marines led by the sometime's blood brother, Mycroft Holmes. After saving Holmes and Watson, Mycroft escorts them to the surface and proceeds in providing them answers.

Equally Holmes and Watson are being escorted, Sebastian Moran spies them from afar and travels to Whitechapel, where he reports his news to his principal - an undead Professor Moriarty.

Issue 3: Written in Blood [edit]

At the Diogenes Club, Mycroft debriefs Holmes and Watson of their regime'south noesis most the undead. In 1854, the Broad Street cholera outbreak was in fact a zombie outbreak, in which more than a thousand people were killed and turned into zombies in the Soho commune. Initially the government failed to sympathise what they were dealing with until the aid of Dr. John Snow, who had prior experience with the undead, strenuously contained and culled the outbreak. In the aftermath, the entire events were covered up equally a cholera outbreak and Snow kept his silence after promises were made in improving public sanitation. The source of the outbreak, withal, remains unknown and there has not been any undead incidents since the last twoscore years until now. Holmes analyzes his brother's data and the recently discovered zombies, and believes that someone is creating and corralling the undead.

Meanwhile, Holmes' deductions are proven correct equally the culprit, Professor Moriarty, has been creating an undead regular army in several secret locations throughout London, and releasing them to start some other, but much larger, outbreak. Holmes and Watson prove to the outbreak and flee to the safety of Bakery Street. There Holmes ties the connection of the zombies in 1854 in concurrent to a comet, as the source of the outbreak for carrying an alien disease, afterwards reading a book written by Moriarty; concluding that his nemesis is behind this and noting that he was thought to exist dead.

Issue 4: And Death Shall Take No Rule [edit]

In a flashback to 1891, Moriarty survived his confrontation with Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls. Here Moriarty, severely wounded, is plant by Sebastian Moran and inoculated with a serum based on the disease which created the undead, transforming him into a zombie just retaining his intelligence. In the present, the undead have overrun London. From Whitechapel, Moriarty reveals to Moran that he never intended to use the outbreak to force the authorities to yield to him, but instead desires to spread the outbreak farther and forge an undead empire. Moran is morally perturbed by his main's intentions and attempts to kill him, only is infected in the process before escaping with his life.

At Baker Street Holmes and Watson, along with Mrs. Hudson, have barricaded inside. However, they are saved past the armed forces that was sent out past Myrcroft Holmes. As they are evacuating the premise, a dying Moran finds Holmes and Watson, informing them of Moriarty before expiring.

Issue five: The Earth Shall Surrender Its Dead [edit]

The undead accept taken London with Moriarty reigning from a captured Buckingham Palace. Holmes and Watson have relocated to Windsor Castle, being used as a command eye by the British regime. They are granted an audience with Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, who informs Holmes that his government had predictable some other outbreak only because afterward previously discovering strange agents were institute attempting to steal the undead remains from the Soho outbreak for their corresponding nations in order to cultivate the undead virus as a biological weapon. As of now, Moriarty holds the ultimate mortiferous weapon in the world. Holmes heavily advises Lord Bellinger that the only choice to contain and neutralize the exponentially growing outbreak is to scorch London at the cost of losing the nation's capital.

Holme's advisement is soon put forward equally the Majestic Navy is ready to bombard London after the undead have cleaved through Westminster Bridge. Nonetheless, Holmes is aghast to larn that the government intends to let Moriarty be burned along with London rather than having him dealt with directly. But thanks to Mycroft, Holmes and Watson are provided with a launch into London to confront Moriarty themselves. Before leaving, Holmes implores Mycroft of how Trelawney Hope, the current Secretary of State, became tasked in tactical deployments in which his brother explains that Hope succeeded from his predecessors of the Home Secretary, who fell to the zombies, based on a contingency plan.

Holmes and Watson state in Whitechapel after deducing Moriarty's location from the clay soil found on Moran's footwear. The two enter a slaughterhouse where they are confronted past an apparently very-much live Moriarty.

Issue 6: Inferno [edit]

Holmes confronts Moriarty's automaton about how the earlier i had mesmerized Trelawney Hope. Promise realized that his safety and the contingency program were compromised and had engaged Holmes, who in plow was able to disengage Moriarty'due south control of Hope'due south mind. Moriarty makes taunts most his reign as monarch. Later on blinding the automaton Holmes and Watson escape into the streets of Whitechapel. They make their way into the Underground and come out of a secret station that leads into Buckingham Palace. Holmes has deduced that is where Moriarty is based on the comments he had transmitted via the automaton. Watson separates from Holmes after being reminded to follow the program.

Naval ships in the Thames River open up fire on central London. Meanwhile upstairs in the Palace Holmes encounters Moriarty who he manages to badly burn with a grenade that also sets the room on fire. While he admits that it will be hard to kill Moriarty, Holmes says he can nonetheless break him since the "torso is only a arrangement of pulley and levers." Moriarty is beaten in the fight and Holmes beheads him. Out on a balustrade Watson fires a flare and Mycroft Holmes, aboard an airship, heads for the bespeak. Holmes tries to finds Moriarty's caput as Watson enters the burning room and says that there is no fourth dimension. The 2 run from the Palace as the airship approaches and then begins to drop bombs. The second Great Burn of London is shown called-for away the "plague." Sailors pull the terminal of the zombies out of the river with angling nets.

Iii months later London is beingness rebuilt equally Holmes and Watson discuss the revenant event, with Holmes noting they are "venturing into the unknown." In the last panels Moriarty is shown in an underground lab, and he has staples in his cervix as he works on the brain of a detached head on the table.

Victorian Undead 2 (Plots) [edit]

Jekyll & Hyde [edit]

In 1899, nearly a year after the revenant attack on London, as the urban center continues to rebuild, Holmes, having completed recreating his lost files, is contacted by Mr. Utterson regarding the recent strange beliefs of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, including his role in the death of a immature girl and a mysterious banana known simply every bit "Edward Hyde". Investigating Jekyll'south lab, Holmes and Watson's test of the tissue consumed past dead flies in the lab reveals that Jekyll has access to a revenant, just a confrontation with Jekyll that night reveals that he is the revenant; having suffered a psychotic breakdown from stress prior to the revenant outbreak that fractured his personality, Jekyll initially maintained control through a serum provided by a Limehouse herbalist, merely later he was attacked past a revenant and his supplier killed in the fire, he was forced to ration his supply and restrain himself, the infection having resulted in him retaining his own mind while under the serum'due south influence while occasionally reverting to his other persona and revenant instincts, likewise as escaping his confinement on some occasions. With no way to contain Hyde as he escapes his house, Jekyll begs Holmes to kill him while he is still himself after being injected with the final of his serum, with Watson mercifully shooting his caput off.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula [edit]

It is one year later on (1900), and contacted by a maritime insurance company to investigate the deaths of the crew of the schooner the Demeter, Holmes and Watson's investigation of the solicitor's part that took custody of the ship's cargo reveals that the unabridged household has abruptly died of the bubonic plague, and they are attacked by a grouping of gypsies before existence saved past another grouping. Talking with their saviours, Holmes and Watson learn that the other group are known equally the Szgany, who serve the vampire known as Count Dracula.

Meanwhile, Lord Godalmning has introduced Queen Victoria to Count Dracula, claiming that the Count is an expert in diseases of the claret and will be able to treat the condition that curtails the imperial family. In reality, Dracula and Godalming intend to unleash an infection on the empire - using the diseased world brought to Britain via the Demeter, Dracula taking the throne in the ensuing chaos. As Holmes and Watson track the boxes of earth to Carfax Abbey, they detect Professor Abraham van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Medico John Seward and Quincey Morris at the abbey already, the two groups exchanging information before they are attacked past the vampire Lucy Westenra and a group of Dracula'south 'become', half-deads animated by his blood every bit plague carriers. Having destroyed the plague-carriers and driven Lucy away, the group run across upward at Bakery Street to hash out their split up approaches to the electric current investigation, including Godalming'due south betrayal and the suicide of Jonathan's wife Mina after Dracula bit her (Lucy escaped being staked because Godalming tipped her off). As they ponder how Dracula made contact with the firm that arranged his arrival in Great britain, the grouping are visited by Mycroft Holmes, who reveals that Godalming was an agent of the Diogenes Club sent on a mission to investigate old legends as means of acquiring an 'alternative armory' for Britain after the revenant attack, merely to beguile his land for ability.

Tracking Dracula to his new lair based on where the boxes were delivered, they discover the dead Godalming - drained by Lucy when Dracula became frustrated with him - and Dracula's brides, with Seward beingness killed before Lucy allows the brides to be destroyed and shield her before fleeing, dismissing Dracula as an antiquated fool for following former superstitions (apparently since she was turned in modern times, her undead grade is a bit more resistant to holy symbols like crosses). Using Toby the bloodhound - wounded during the revenant set on on London only withal possessing his groovy nose - the group tracks Dracula to the Palace, where they manage to expose him during a royal ball. Dracula attacks and kills the Queen, then tries to escape while Holmes and Morris bound on Dracula's transformed bat-like form and strength him to land in a nearby construction site. Morris dies of his injuries earlier Holmes manages to cutting a vital rope so that the scaffolding impales Dracula, and Holmes then beheads him, thus ending his threat once and for all (it is also revealed that the "Queen" was an extra hired to impersonate her). However Holmes deduces this is just the start of the world becoming more known to supernatural forces.

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards [edit]

The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award is an annual award presented by the Classic Horror Picture show Lath to honour outstanding works in horror in film, television, home video, and publishing, as voted on by the full general public. Victorian Undead has received a nomination in 2010. ^[iii]

Nerveless editions [edit]

Both series have been collected into trade paperbacks:

Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies (collects kickoff series, 144 pages, Titan Books, December 2010, ISBN 0-85768-051-Ten, Wildstorm, October 2010, ISBN one-4012-2840-2)
Victorian Undead 2: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (collects one-shot special and 2nd series, 144 pages, Titan Books, December 2011, ISBN 0-85768-880-4, DC Comics, Oct 2011, ISBN one-4012-3268-X)

Notes [edit]

^ Renaud, Jeffrey (October 28, 2009). "Edginton Unleashes Holmes vs. Zombies". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November seven, 2009.
^ Victorian Undead II at the K Comics Database
^ Prepolec, Charles (24 February 2010). "AWARDS: SHERLOCK HOLMES ON THE RONDO HATTON Classic HORROR AWARDS Election". www.sherlocknews.com. Retrieved 4 November 2013.

References [edit]

Victorian Undead at the Grand Comics Database
Victorian Undead II at the Grand Comics Database

External links [edit]

Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies TPB and Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula #1 review, Ain't It Cool News

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Undead