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The comic is divided into two distinct Books, each set in Baltimore. Book 1 revolves around the adventures of the main character, Nick, as he wakes up one morning to find the city overrun by the undead. While his major priority is to escape, he soon runs across other survivors--Marty, Dan, and Ed, to name a few. They begin to adventure across the city, killing copious zombies along the way. And that's just the beginning. Tensions rise, as does the body count, as one by one, Nick's newfound allies are killed. Soon, he's the only one of the group left. Overcome with exhaustion and guilt, contemplating suicide, he collapses as a zombie approaches.
Nick wakes up in a room, on a pile of zombified bodies. He is somehow perfectly alive and well. [[Wham! Episode|End Book 1]].
Book 2 picks up right where Book 1 left off. Nick discovers that he's in the Baltimore Zoo, which has been taken over by the military. Dr. Alan Stone and his wife, Lydia, are scientists with a plan to destroy the zombies. But Lydia seems occupied with a dead monkey, Tito, and there's hints that Alan's not quite right in the head. Not to mention William, the head zoologist, who's bitter about the zoo being taken over. Eventually, both he and Nick are exiled into the irradiated city...
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Doug Fetterman}}, to {{spoiler|Panther}}. A background character comments that 'they want[ed] each other dead.'
* [[Art Evolution]]: Book 2 has a much cleaner art style.
* [[Bee
* [[Big Bad]]: The zombies, but also {{spoiler|Alan Stone.}} A case can also be made for {{spoiler|Doug Fetterman.}}
* [[Body Horror]]: What {{spoiler|Alan}} becomes.
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* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Alan does this, after {{spoiler|turning himself into a monster and Lydia into a zombie.}}
* [[Reckless Sidekick]]: Matt, due to his love of taking pictures. {{spoiler|Doesn't make his zombification and subsequent death any less sad.}}
* [[Ridiculously
* [[Rip Van Winkle]]: At the end of Book 1, Nick collapses from exhaustion. When he wakes up, the other characters explain that he's been out for about a year. Notable in that as far as we know, they're not lying.
* [[Single
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]: Alan Stone not only has cameras IN the zoo, but outside it as well.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: What {{spoiler|The Protomen's}} powers seem to be.
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* [[Spot the Imposter]]: Averted. The deal with {{spoiler|Panther and his clone}} may ''seem'' to be leading into this, but it's over with one strike.
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Nick engages in this near the end of Book 1.
* [[Take That]]: One delivered at the [[George W. Bush|Bush Administration]] [http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/06/18/comic-249-press-conferences-gone-awry/ here].
* [[The Swarm]]: Seen [http://web.archive.org/web/20100925013751/http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/10/24/comic-2100-bug-bites/ here] and [http://web.archive.org/web/20100411001806/http://www.deadofsummer.org/2007/11/05/comic-2103-not-a-dream/ in the first panel here].
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: {{spoiler|Doug Fetterman's}} nameless lackeys.
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* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Doug Fetterman}}. This makes his [[Never Found the Body|status unknown]], though he can be [[No One Could Survive That|presumed dead]].
* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: Subverted; {{spoiler|Doug Fetterman}} only ''wishes'' he was this. Played straighter with {{spoiler|the clone of Panther.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The ending of Book 1, as well as the introduction of {{spoiler|The Protomen}} in Book 2.
** In Book 2, there's the 'noctural activities' sequence, where good guys get [[Nightmare Fuel|horrific injuries]] inflicted upon them, bad guys set up their evil plans, and {{spoiler|Panther makes a [[Face Heel Turn]].}} {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Or does he?]]}}
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?|What Happened To the Girls?]]: The girls in Book 1 disappear from the story after being knocked out by Ed.
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