The other ongoing title this week is Gambit, another of the stragglers. 

By the way, before somebody e-mails me about this, yes, I know the splash page says this storyline is called "Hath No Fury."  But the storyline was solicited as "Voodoo Economics", and that's what it's called on the recap page, so I'll go with that.  After all, it's still a story full of raving zombies and guest starring Brother Voodoo.  It's not like Marvel are likely to have changed the title to avoid offending the Voodoo American community.

It's not often in this day and age that you get to use the words "Guest starring Brother Voodoo."  In fact, he's a perfectly sensible choice of guest star because he's the only other established superhero operating out of New Orleans.  But most people seem to steer well clear of him, perhaps because he's acquired a reputation as the poster child for lame Marvel superheroes.

But if you're one of the beleaguered band of Brother Voodoo fans who've been yearning to see the poor guy taken seriously, you'll be pleasantly surprised with this issue.  Okay, they're fighting a horde of zombies, so it's kind of up his street.  Still, he's being written as a proper superhero here.  It's the zombies who are funny; since they're not alive, Gambit gets to charge them up and make them go boom.

Entertainingly silly - there's something endearingly low-budget about zombies, after all.

Rating: B+

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