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Yeah, yeah, everybody thinks that Marvel’s cornered the market when it comes to post-apocalyptic zombie superhero stories. But I’ll remind you, reader, that DC’s got its own share of beloved characters falling prey to the brain-gnawing undead. Beginning in 2019, the DCeased saga told the story of a zombie plague spinning out of Darkseid’s Anti-Life equation - beginning a tale that spanned 2 sequels, 3 spinoffs, and 4 years. Even in all that time, though, the creatives didn’t get to do everything they hoped to, and in a recent interview, the story’s primary writer got into what might have been.

That writer is, of course, Tom Taylor, author of alt-universe DC hits like Injustice and Dark Knights of Steel. In July of this year, Taylor hopped onto the forums of League of Comic Geeks to chat directly with DC readers worldwide, and at one point during the Q&As, one fan asked whether there were any more tasty brains left in DCeased’s proverbial corpse.

"We always had a little side story planned for DCeased," Taylor revealed, "Which is why the Titans never really appeared. And there were a number of plots (like Talia and Steph) that we just never had the space to come back to. There were scenes written that had to end up on the cutting room floor, so to speak."

I know what you’re thinking, reader, because I’m thinking it too - is there a chance that what got left on Taylor’s cutting room floor could get swept up and reused? 

"I have no idea if I'd ever go back to that universe," Taylor concluded. "I like the way we ended it."

As a fan of authors who know when to end their stories, I have to say I love that answer, even though the idea of more DCeased is something that appeals to me. But who knows - perhaps we’ll get to see a Titans zombie tale if DCeased makes comeback in a different way. A way like, I don’t know, a mature, animated TV series?

Like we hinted at before - we can’t let Marvel have all the blood-soaked-spandex fun.

DCeased is available wherever you get your comics now.

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