| A disparaging term for ardent fans of comics published
by Marvel Comics.
The vision of Marvel Comics from its beginning has been to give
the readers of their superhero comics the most exciting
and action-packed stories available. To this end, Marvel
Comics has hired some of the finest talent available to
write and draw their comics.
Because of this drive for excellence, fans of superhero
fiction have flocked to Marvel's titles, drawing others
to attack the devotion of those fans. Like all successful
people or endevours, Marvel's detractors attack them
because they are at the top of their game, not for any
fault of their own. Those fans who choose to defend
Marvel's efforts are labeled Marvel zombies in a hope
to discredit their arguments.
A reader of comics has only to read such comics as
Sleepwalker, any of the New Universe titles, U.S. 1,
any of the Rob Liefeld run of Captain America, one of
the dozen X titles, Secret Wars, Secret Wars II,
any of the Atlantis Attacks cross-overs, any of the
Evolutionary War cross-overs, any of the Inferno
cross-overs, Todd McFarlane's writing in Spiderman,
any of the Galactic Storm cross-overs, Darkhawk,
or Power Pack to determine for themselves whether
the critisism leveled at Marvel Comics is false or
if these fans are just a bunch of mindless, gibbering
fanboys with no real taste in comics. | 
