Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon
Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon is a book published by PopCap Games. Two new characters, Nate Timely, a young explorer, and Patrice Blazing, the niece of Crazy Dave, make their first appearance in this book. The sequel to this book is Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse.
Plot
In the town of Neighborville, a sanitation worker investigates weird noises coming from the sewers. He cannot seem to find anything until he encounters a dead end. The wall cracks and a Digger Zombie breaks out, followed by a massive Zombie horde. The focus then shifts to Nate Timely, who is about to climb up his tree fort after he rode his bike home, only to hear noises from inside it.
Nate reakhe source of the noise was Patrice Blazing, who was only investigating Nate's treehouse. Nate tries to attack Patrice with a hockey stick, but she punches him in self-defense. After apologizing to each other as well as introducing themselves, Nate states that he feels something strange is going on, right before a Zombie pokes its head inside the treehouse.
Patrice and Nate stomp on the trapdoor over the zombie's head before realizing that the whole yard is overrun by zombies. Swinging to the neighboring lawn via the treehouse's tire swing, the two quickly find out that the yard they landed in is infested with zombies as well. Luckily, the zombies are fended off by a small group of wild Peashooters, which Patrice doesn't notice, but Nate has a hard time believing.
Riding on their bikes, Patrice is convinced that her genius can help them. She leads Nate to her uncle’s house, which Nate recognizes as Crazy Dave's. Once the duo enters the property, Patrice notes that Dave's car parked just outside the garage, meaning that her uncle is probably inside. However, a large group of zombies break through the house's perimeter fence. Patrice and Nate cower behind the car until all of a sudden, the garage door opens, and a team of lawnmowers rip the zombies to shreds.
Crazy Dave bursts out of the garage and excitedly greets the duo (Patrice greets him back with a smile, while Nate does so with a nervous look on his face), explaining that the zombies are to blame for all the mayhem in Neighborville. He leads them to his garage and shows them a Peashooter, only for Patrice and Nate to scream in fear when the Peashooter opens its eyes. The other plants surrounding them wake up as well, causing the kids to scream louder.
Crazy Dave calms them down by telling them that the plants are friendly to humans and goes on to explain he knew that it was only a matter of time before Neighborville was invaded by a hostile force, and thus, he made an army of sentient, weaponized plants. Crazy Dave invites the kids to his plant greenhouse, containing the vast majority of the plants. Dave then reveals that, in addition to the plants in the greenhouse, he'd been creating wild, free-range plants throughout Neighborville. Meanwhile, the zombie horde continues to terrorize the townsfolk.
Nate volunteers to lead the plants into battle against the zombies. Unfortunately for Nate, only Patrice, and eventually the Peashooters, Wall-nuts, and Tall-nuts stand with him. Crazy Dave says that the greenhouse plants have never seen a zombie before, making them hesitant to fight. After a quick lemonade break, Nate and Patrice set out to search for pockets of wild plants throughout Neighborville, hoping that they could use them to encourage the greenhouse plants. Once they separate, Nate gets swarmed by zombies time and again, until he stumbles into a large group of wild plants.
Despite Nate finding a bunch of plants, they only have five Sunflowers to support them. As a wave of zombies approaches, Nate hides inside a Pumpkin and tries to talk to Patrice, only to realize that she has gone silent. The Yeti Zombie has cornered Patrice in an alleyway, and she evades it only to be 'saved' by a group of Bungee Zombies. Patrice makes short work of the Bungees by tangling their ropes together, and she discovers a massive patch of wild Sunflowers on the rooftops.
Patrice calls Nate to share the good news, amidst Nate and his plants being attacked by a huge wave of Zombies. Nate tells Patrice not to worry about him but tells her to hurry up anyways. Nate devises a plan to grapple hook up a wall and sword fight his way through the zombies to try and get help, while the remaining Plants hold their position. However, Nate is interrupted by several Gargantuars until a team of Squashes arrive and defeat them. After thanking the Squashes, Nate and his plants then follow the Gargantuars' trail of destruction, leading them to Neighborville's Town Square.
Five blocks later, Nate and his plants find Dr. Zomboss, leader of the zombies, operating a strange machine emitting thick dark smoke into the air. He calls Patrice to tell her the news, only for her to be standing at the rooftop of nearby building. The two reunite with a hug, and Patrice suspects that the machine's purpose is to create a huge cloud to block out the sun. Since the Sunflowers use sunlight to empower their fellow plants, having no access to sunlight meant the end of Neighborville. Confident that Crazy Dave would know what to do, Patrice and Nate load up their bikes with plants, taking out zombies as they ride along. Unfortunately, a group of Gargantuars force them to take a detour down a different road, which then leads them to Crazy Dave. Heading back to Crazy Dave's house, the duo explain the whole situation. Crazy Dave tells Patrice his plan, which makes Nate extremely antsy as he couldn't understand him.
Patrice then relays the plan to Nate, saying that if they could find Crazy Dave seven gopher traps, six jars of peanut butter, five incendiary grenades, at least eighty-five feet of rubber hose, a pair of fireplace bellows, the headlights from nine motorcycles, a complete set of The Adventures of Captain Caterpillar comic book series, and at least fifty-five packages of shoe inserts, he can create a life-size T. Rex that breathes fire, which leaves Nate completely flabbergasted. Patrice follows up that there is also a massive wind machine at Crazy Dave's abandoned family mansion that can blow the cloud away, but she told him about the T. Rex first because it sounded cooler.
To try and get out of having to travel through the mansion, Nate employs several Blovers to blow the cloud away, but it ultimately fails. Realizing that they have no choice but to fight their way to the mansion, Nate rallies all of the greenhouse plants and the wild plants together into one massive army, and they charge into the streets. With the zombies hot on their heels, Nate, Patrice, and the plants run into a red light. Nate tells Patrice to stop as running a red light is illegal. Patrice says that the zombies aren't going to stop, so they shouldn't either. Much to her surprise, the zombies actually stop, buying the kids enough time to set up a defense.
Zombies begin to flood the area, the plants defeating them as best as they could. Patrice tries to get the Wall-Nuts to form a wall, while Nate clears a large group of zombies with a single Cherry Bomb. He gets picked up by a Balloon Zombie that is shot down by Patrice, and they realize that stopping to fight wasn't the smartest thing to do. The Sunflowers are exhausted, there's no sun energy to be had, and there are way too many zombies - it was a losing battle.
Luckily for them, Crazy Dave comes to the rescue by running over several zombies with his car, as well as giving the duo a secret blueprint (only to be revealed as a new recipe for pancakes). After Patrice reveals that there is a grill and batter dispenser built into the car engine, Nate asks if he could drive them and the plants to the mansion. Dave agrees, and as they drive off, Nate tells a Squash that he thinks Dave, Patrice, and their entire family might be a little short in the brains.
Crazy Dave leaves to hunt for telepathic squirrels on a side project he's working on, and a Squash drives Nate, Patrice, and the rest of the plants to the mansion instead. Patrice assures Nate that despite the house looking creepy, it's actually really nice, and it isn’t stuffed with demons or monsters. However, after seeing the mansion's elevator stuffed with zombies, a mad dash to the rooftop ensues, with Patrice and Nate covering their retreat with several Starfruits.
Nate and Patrice reach the rooftop and find the wind machine, but a Gargantuar that had climbed up the house picks up Nate by the hand before he can activate the machine. Patrice orders the Squashes to flatten the Gargantuar, but the massive zombie drops Nate and uses a zombie that had managed to climb up on the rooftop to bat the Squashes out of the air. Nate commands the Squashes to land near the Gargantuar's feet, causing the piece of roof it was standing on to crumble, sending the zombie to its doom. Nate activates the wind machine, which sucessfully blows the cloud away, rejuvenates the Sunflowers, and lets them empower the plants.
In downtown Neighborville, Patrice and Nate lead an aggressive forward assault, forcing the zombie horde to retreat until Dr. Zombies arrives with reinforcements, namely the Yeti Zombie, several Gargantuars, a group of Catapult Zombies, and the remnants of his army. The zombies briefly gain the upper hand until Crazy Dave arrives to turn the tide, having actually built and is now piloting the life-size T. Rex that breathes fire. Crazy Dave engages Dr. Zomboss and the Gargantuars, while Patrice and Nate take care of the rest of the zombies. Patrice reveals that she had deployed several Potato Mines in the area, blowing up the vast majority of the zombies and causing the rest to run away.
Having successfully saved Neighborville from the zombies, Patrice, Nate, and Crazy Dave celebrate by binge-eating on pancakes. Unbeknownst to them, Zomboss had scattered a shower of letters in his wake when the zombies retreated, stating that the events of the battle will be remembered and that the zombies shall return one day to exact their revenge and eat their brains. The comic ends with Nate's pancakes being eaten by a Chomper.
Gallery
Comic preview
Note: This preview only show the 10 first pages of the first issue of the story.
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10
Others
Nate Timely and Patrice Blazing lead the plants.
The comic with Crazy Dave and Dr. Zomboss figures
Trivia
- On page 62, panel 2, a parody of the elevator scene in Gangnam Style can be seen.
- Lawnmageddon is a portmanteau of "lawn" and "armageddon."
- Patrice reveals that Crazy Dave's gibberish is a different language entirely of itself.
- The plants' main form of traversal is via roots, as they are pictured to be having them in the comic.
- In the third panel of page 22, there is what appears to be either a banana tree or a palm tree with eyes. Peculiarly, it looks a lot like Umbrella Leaf.
- The Wall-nuts and Tall-nuts often exchange facial expressions throughout the comic. The main cover features a Wall-nut with a Tall-nut's face.
- In the last panel of page 27, a Cactus can be seen punching a zombie.
- The Sunflowers function differently in the comics; instead of providing sun for placing plants, the Sunflowers use sun to give energy to the plants who are already fighting the zombies.
- On page 37, panel 5, a Peashooter with eyebrows can be seen.
- The following panels feature glimpses of the 'sleeping' plants before their first proper appearance:
- Page 7, panels 2 and 3.
- Page 10, panel 3; Page 13, panel 3.
- Page 14, panels 1 and 3.
- Despite Lawnmageddon being based off the first Plants vs. Zombies game, the mushrooms are not nocturnal. However, Crazy Dave may have already given them Coffee Beans prior to them being introduced to the kids, as one can be seen on page 30, panel 3.
- In page 38, it appears that only one Squash is required to take out the Gargantuars. This is similar to the third panel of page 56 where Nate throws a single Cherry Bomb towards a Gargantuar and takes it out. This is impossible in-game as it takes two of either plant to kill a Gargantuar.
- However, the Gargantuar may have lost some of its health before being taken out by the Squash and Cherry Bomb.
- The license plate on Crazy Dave's car reads, 'SMTHNFNNY'.
- In page 72, panel 4, and page 73, panel 3, Catapult Zombies are seen hurling volleyballs and soccer balls in addition to basketballs.
- In page 73, panel 2, a Jalapeno explodes sideways instead of forwards and backward. But in the last panel of page 71, it explodes normally.
- In Page 73, Patrice goes from being right in the frontlines to assisting the Sunflowers in the backlines between 2 panels. She also uses Wall-nuts instead of Umbrella Leaves to defend the Sunflowers against the Catapult Zombies.
- In page 74, panel 3, there is a Newspaper Zombie holding a screen door.
- In page 71, panel 4, there is a Scaredy-shroom fighting a zombie. Since there is only one Spikeweed between them, the Scaredy-shroom should've already hidden under its cap.
- The notes Dr. Zomboss leave in the last scene of the comic is reminiscent of the letters the player received before the tenth stage of every chapter in Adventure Mode from the first game.
- This is the only official comic where the Plants are drawn to resemble their first Plants vs. Zombies incarnations. All other comics use the designs of the Plants as they appeared in other games - most notably Plants vs. Zombies 2.
| View · Edit |
| English Books | |
|---|---|
| Comic books | Lawnmageddon · Timepocalypse · Bully For You · Grown Sweet Home · Garden Warfare · Petal to the Metal · Boom Boom Mushroom · Garden Warfare (Volume 2) |
| Graphic novels | Battle Extravagonzo · Lawn of Doom · The Greatest Show Unearthed · Rumble at Lake Gumbo · War and Peas · Dino-Might · Snow Thanks · A Little Problem · Garden Warfare (Volume 3) · Better Homes and Guardens · The Garden Path · Multi-ball-istic · Constructionary Tales |
| Informative books/Spin-offs | Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains · Brain Food · Brains and the Beanstalk · Plant Your Path · The Three Little Pigs Fight Back |
| Miscellaneous | The Art of Plants vs. Zombies · Plants vs. Zombies: Sticker Album · App · The Curse of the Flower-Bot · The Lady in Red |
| Chinese Books | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published by Nanjing University Press | Ultimate Almanac (Pocket Edition) · Complete Walkthrough | ||||||||||||||
| Spy War Novels | 101 Secret Techniques · Vasebreaker · Fight on Roof Top · Find the Tree of Wisdom · We Are Brothers | ||||||||||||||
| Plant School | Book 1 · Book 2 · Book 3 · Book 4 · Book 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Children's Literature | Running Camp · Secret Base Under the Pyramid · Desert Adventure · Friend, or Enemy · Super Zombie Teacher · Crazy Dave's Plants Class · Plants' Side Stories · Sunflower's Messy Magic | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese Idiom Comics | Book 1 · Book 2 · Book 3 · Book 4 · Book 5 · Book 6 · Book 7 · Book 8 · Book 9 · Book 10 · Book 11 · Book 12 · Book 13 · Book 14 · Book 15 · Book 16 · Book 17 · Book 18 · Book 19 · Book 20 · Book 21 · Book 22 · Book 23 · Book 24 · Book 25 · Book 26 · Book 27 · Book 28 · Book 29 · Book 30 · Book 31 · Book 32 | ||||||||||||||
| New Chinese Idiom Comics | Fish with Water · Autumn-Heralding Leaf · Singing Orioles and Dancing Swallows · Notching Boat in Search of Sword · Forceful Sprout Growth | ||||||||||||||
| Museum Comics | Shanghai Museum · China Railway Museum · Auto Museum · China Science and Technology Museum · Nanjing Museum · Beijing Museum of Natural History · Musée du Louvre · British Museum · Winter Palace · Metropolitan Museum of Art · Egyptian Museum · The Palace Museum · Shaanxi History Museum · Taipei Palace Museum · National Museum of China | ||||||||||||||
| Famous Cities of China Comics | Beijing · Nanjing · Chengdu · Shenyang · Taiyuan · Wuhan & Changsha · Xi'an · Luoyang & Kaifeng · Suzhou & Hangzhou · Lhasa & Xining · Guangzhou · Guilin · Jinan & Qufu · Kunming & Dali · Pingyao & Datong · Dunhuang & Yinchuan | ||||||||||||||
| History Comics | Prehistoric Period · Xia, Shang and Western Zhou · Spring and Autumn Period · Warring States Period · Qin Dynasty · The Two Han Dynasties (Part 1) · The Two Han Dynasties (Part 2) · Three Kingdoms · Two Jins and Northern and Southern Dynasties · Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Part 1) · Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Part 2) · Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Part 3) · Northern Song · Southern Song · Liao, Western Xia and Jin · Yuan Dynasty · Ming Dynasty (Part 1) · Ming Dynasty (Part 2) · Qing Dynasty (Part 1) · Qing Dynasty (Part 2) | ||||||||||||||
| Human Body Comics |
| ||||||||||||||
| Robots Comics | The Robot Maze · Super Combat League · The Battle of the Universe · I'm a Superstar! · Exploring Chef Island · The Legend of Heroes · Last-Moment Counterattack · Big Battle at the Mystic Glacier · Big Data Prophet · Galactic Protectors · City Crisis · Great Turnabout to Rescue · Adventure at Xanadu Island · Championship Competition · Pivotal Warfare in the Sky · Hot-Blooded Street Dance Gang · Mystery of the Beast · Fight Around Time · Mechanical Chaos · Big Adventure at the Plains · Insect Armor Special Forces · Bionic Crisis | ||||||||||||||
| Science Comics | Universe · Dinosaurs · Sea and Ocean · Human Body · Brain · Animals · Plants · Insects · Birds · Geography · Astronomy · Buildings · Archaeology · Mathematics · Physics · Chemistry · Logic · Robots · Electricity and Magnetism · Safety in Civil Aviation · Prehistoric Creatures · World Mysteries · World Heritage · World's Top · Future Technology · Famous Scientists · Fun Science Experiments · Special Cuisines · Healthy Life · Transportation Vehicles · Amphibians · Science Adventures · Migration of Animals · Artificial Intelligence · Intriguing Creatures · Artificial Satellites · Science Mini-Games · Inventions and Discoveries · Computers and Networks · Sports and Exercises · Rare Creatures · Environment and Energy · Weather and Climate · Polar Regions and Glaciers · Woods and Lakes · Disasters and Protections · Agroecology · Food and Nutrition · Medicine and Sickness · Volcanoes and Earthquakes · Deserts and Rainforests · Safety and Precautions · Caves and Islands · Grasslands and Wetlands · Bacteria and Viruses · Pandemics and Prevention · Survival in the Wild · Mental Protection · Indoor Safety And Self Rescue · Microscopic World · Magical Materials · Fishes | ||||||||||||||
| Dinosaur Comics | The Braves' Adventure · Battle Across Spacetime · War of Warriors · Spacetime Rescue · Kongfu Alliance · Ultimate Battle in Dinosaur Park · Dinosaurs and Golden City · Deep Sea Hunters · Across the Jurassic · Toys and Us · Jurassic Treasure Hunt · Heart of Dinosaur Island · Sleeping Kingdom · Magical Dinosaur Fruit · Note of Dinosaur Village · Dinoman Disaster · Dinosaurs and Secret Realm Treasures · Dangerous Miracle · Dinosaur Requiem · Paradise Survival · Marine Wax Museum · King of Dinosaurs · Incident of Magicians · Pyroraptor's Adventure · Dinosaur Vending Machine · Dinosaurs and The Magic Cube · Dino Mech Combat · Dinosaur Planet · Dino Fantasy Orb · Dinosaurs and The Mechanical Stranger · Gold Killer · Dinosaurs and Outlandish Forest · Mystery of the Dino Bronze Mirror · Dinosaurs and the Desert Kingdom · Dinosaurs and the Miracle Flower · Dinosaur and the Forsaken Island · Hero's Awakening · Mystery of the Void City · Lost Swamp · Clone Entity Number K23 · Braving Dinosaur City · Arctic Assault · Revenge of Thescelosaurus · Eternal Lighthouse · Fly Over the Sinkhole · Plant Agents · Interdimensional Battle · Adventure in Tuck City | ||||||||||||||
| Unsolved Mysteries | History · Medicine · Human Race · Art · Animals & Plants · Space · Ancient Cilvilizations · Geology | ||||||||||||||
| Ancient Chinese Poetry Congress | Book 1 · Book 2 · Book 3 · Book 4 · Book 5 · Book 6 · Book 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Tang Poems |
| ||||||||||||||
| Game Books | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Brain Teasers | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Red Kangaroo's Team Stories | Book 1 · Book 2 · Book 3 · Book 4 · Book 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Humorous Stories | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Weapon Secrets Stories | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Hilarious Comics | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| PvZ2 Ultimate Hilarious Comics | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| CCPPG Children Pictorial | TBA
| ||||||||||||||
| Fantasy Hilarious Comics |
Attack! Plant Squad E
Lost Ring | ||||||||||||||
| PvZ Ultimate Hilarious Comics | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Almanac Walkthrough Manuals | Player's House, Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas and Wild West · Kongfu World and Far Future · Dark Ages · Big Wave Beach · Frostbite Caves and Lost City · Neon Mixtape Tour, Jurassic Marsh and Modern Day | ||||||||||||||
| Audio Books | Who's the Millionaire · Great Adventure on Bizarre Beast Island · Big Snowy Battle · Territorial Travelling · Galatic Adventure · Hilarious Academy · Hilarious Meetings · Plan Crazy Dino · Pirate Brawl · Plant Detective Club · Omnipotent Great Detective · Adventure in the Center of Earth · Greatest Feast in the World · Mechanical Age · Transforming Racecars · Rescue Planet M16 · Adventrous Travel · Celebrating New Year · War against Pandemic · Magical Card · Wand of Dinosaurs · Adventure in School · Dinosaur Series; Treasure Hunting in Jurassic · Dinosaur Series; Fly Over Jurassic · Kongfu World · Sure-Win Stories · Virtue Stories · Weapon Secrets 1 · Weapon Secrets 2 · Chinese Idiom Comic 1 · Chinese Idiom Comic 2 · Chinese Idiom Comic 3 · Chinese Idiom Comic 4 · Ancient Chinese Poetry Congress 1 · Ancient Chinese Poetry Congress 2 · Ancient Chinese Poetry Congress 3 · Ancient Chinese Poetry Congress 4 · Plants vs. Bad Habits 1 · Plants vs. Bad Habits 2 · Plants vs. Bad Habits 3 · Plants vs. Bad Habits 4 | ||||||||||||||
- Pages using Tabber parser tag
- Books
- Plants vs. Zombies (non-series)