’68 Ultimate Onmibus
WELCOME TO 1968…AND THE END OF THE WORLD!
Meatgrinder Studios is proud to present the massive 907-page deluxe slip-cased, hardcover omnibus edition of their award-winning graphic novel series, “’68”. Set in the turbulent year of 1968 (the same year that the original Night of the Living Dead was unleashed on movie audiences everywhere), the series focuses on the rise of the hungry undead on both the home front and deep in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam!
The living dead are everywhere, clogging bridges in New York City, rising from muddy rat-tunnel walls deep underground in Vietnam, wired as suicide soldiers tuned to radio frequencies during the Tet Offensive, and crawling through deep Canadian snow stained red! The ’68 series explores ALL of 1968, moving its blood-stained camera all around the globe to put you front and center for the zombie apocalypse in the age of Aquarius! Hippies, riot police, front-line troops, politicians, and celebrities of the time are all fighting for their lives, and no one is safe!
The WHOLE DAMN DEAD THING!
This deluxe hardcover, custom slip-cased volume is designed to become a prized horror and comics collectible on your bookshelf! The book comes with a tipped-in signature plate, hand-signed by series creators Mark Kidwell, Nat Jones, Jay Fotos, and Jeff Zornow, and contains the entire 30-issue ’68 comics run. You’ll get everything, all the exclusive covers, the short stories, the one-shots, research notes, “making-of” extras, and more!
This is the definitive ’68 experience, and we’ve left nothing out! This massive tome includes:
The original ’68 one-shot from 2006 that started it all!
“Better Run Through the Jungle” – The first four-issue ’68 story arc, including the original shorts by comics legend Tim Vigil.
“Scars” – The four-issue sequel series to the first mini-series that introduces the insidious villain, “War-Face”!
“Jungle Jim” – The sold-out, impossible to find volume that introduces ‘68’s most popular character, “Jungle Jim”. He’s a killing machine, slaying the undead, rescuing POWs from the clutches of the Viet Cong, and following the superhuman call of a haunted gas mask! It’s schizophrenia with a machete, Jack the Ripper with an M-16…a human “MEATGRINDER” with no fear!
“Rule of War” – The installment following CIA agent Declan Rule deep into the jungles of Cambodia to exact revenge on the neurosurgeon who turned his son into a living bomb! Experience zombies wired with C-4, tuned to the frequency of a suicidal radio dial!
“Homefront” – The series that brings the horrors of 1968’s zombie apocalypse home, to both small-town America and a remote Canadian town as Americans dodging the inevitable Vietnam draft find that the horrors of war may not be the worst of nightmares!
“Last Rites” – The finale, tying all of ‘68’s characters, timelines, and plot threads into an explosive ending! From the jungles of Vietnam to the frozen streets of New York City, subway tunnels filled with rats and the hungry dead, beatnik Soho artists patrolling the streets looking for meat for their next meal…the ’68 experience concludes, revealing the origin of the dead plague and the dark shadows of the future!
One-Shots: All six ’68 one-shot books with self-contained stories, including the original stand-alone story that launched the series.
“Hardship”- A shell-shocked soldier returns to his rural home to find his mother on her deathbed, his childhood farm in shambles, and the voices in his head pushing him to make a last stand against “Charlie”, in the form of the shambling dead!
“Jungle Jim”– The hard-hitting one-shot that introduces ‘68’s most violent and popular character!
“Jungle Jim: Guts N’ Glory”– Jungle Jim returns, in a tale of self-sacrifice, patriotism, and all-out, gore-soaked vengeance!
“Hallowed Ground”- Two war veterans, returning home from Vietnam, trapped by a train wreck, hole up in a crumbling church to face decaying hope and religion in an onslaught of the rotting dead.
“Bad Sign”- The infamous Zodiac killer, upstaged by the rise of the living dead, plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the remains of the San Francisco police to regain his lost fame and the lure of non-existent headlines!
Cover Gallery: Every rare and exclusive cover illustration from each ’68 issue, in full color so you can see all the guts, grit, and flyblown goodness!
Behind the Scenes & Incoming: The ’68 omnibus volume also contains all of the “making of” material from the original comics run, showing original script pages, thumbnail sketches, page layouts, and character designs, giving you a feel for the creative process involved in producing the books! In addition, the creators present “’68: INCOMING”, a series of articles showcasing the “real world” facts and news stories from 1968 that inspired many of the story concepts and scenes from the series, complete with authentic photographs!
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