\'Eons ago, visitors from outer space buried an item of unimaginable power in the primordial swamps that would one day become King Lake--a quaint little basin on the edge of Whisper, USA. Millions of years later, a comet\'s radioactive waves awaken the monster slumbering beneath the lake. As the beast feeds on America\'s sweet, delicious youth, brain-slugs infect the quiet town, causing victims to vomit up their kill-hungry, zombified skeletons. But for seventeen-year-old Jarrod Parker, none of that stuff matters much. For him, this isn\'t about the Apocalypse. It\'s about payback. Nothing--not his friends, not the undead, not even the end of the world--will keep him from vengeance. \' (W) Eliot Rahal (A/CA) John Bivens