The greatest city in the world lies blanketed in ice & snow There are no lights on Broadway no taxis clogging the streets & the Empire State stands like a frozen tombstone blanketing a dead metropolis in its shadow These are the Popsicle Fieldsa labyrinth of New York streets littered with the frozen undead This is 1970 two years since the rise of the cannibalistic dead This is ’68 LAST RITES the climactic sixth volume in the epic award-winning militaryhorror comics series that brings all branching storylines to a close From the fortified Flatiron Building where a band of survivors holds onto life with a white-knuckled grip to the battle-torn streets of Chinatown where the stiffening dead rise from subways filled with starving rats an island off the Jersey coast where living horrors feast on human fleshto the steaming jungles of Vietnam where a hero will fall only to spawn an army of masked avengers who find retribution in his legend & a battle cry in his name Collected here for the first time this volume
Includes:: all four issues of the series finale along with the hard-hitting one shot JUNGLE JIM GUTS ‘N GLORY with tons of extras including a cover gallery script notes & behind the scenes extras available nowhere else! From writer MARK KIDWELL & artists JEFF ZORNOW & JAY FOTOS ’68 LAST RITES closes the curtain on the saga of the rise of the living dead in the age of Aquarius & unleashes a plague of the hungry dead on a generation of the lost!