Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse

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Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse is a Plants vs. Zombies comic book made by Dark Horse Comics. The comic book focuses on the events of Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is a sequel to the Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon book. It has 6 issues and each issue has 15 pages which include one part of the story. The first issue was published on June 25, 2014, and the full comic was released on January 13, 2015. The full comic is available to buy for $9.99 on Darkhorse.com.

Plot

Sometime after the events of Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon, Dr. Zomboss finishes his Sun Vacuum, a machine that will absorb all sunlight to leave the plants defenceless. However, one of his minions shoves a box of Zomboss' favorite food, Pop Smarts, into the machine. This ends up destroying the machine and scattering the pieces across time and space. Zomboss responds by sending his minions across time to search for the pieces and rebuild the Sun Vacuum.

Meanwhile, Crazy Dave perfects his time machine (which is Penny, but its name is not mentioned in this book) and plans to use it to get a copy of Leapfrog Quarterly, the only one he's missing. However, a piece of machinery appears in the garage. Crazy Dave confirms it is a piece of the Sun Vacuum, is being used by Zomboss to suck up all sunlight, was destroyed and scattered across time, and that the other pieces are being searched for by Zomboss' minions- just by licking it much to Nate's disgust. Not wanting Zomboss to rebuild the machine, they use Dave's time machine to travel through time and retrieve the pieces.

Arriving in Ancient Egypt, Nate gets separated from Patrice and gets attacked by Egyptian Zombies, only to be saved by plants riding in a chariot. Reuniting with Patrice, he names a Bloomerang with buckteeth Jeff, a Sunflower with a distinctly square-shaped head Fred, and a Bonk Choy with a headband Grrawrr-Bear the Ultimate Face Puncher. Crazy Dave then shows up with lemonade and informs them that they will need to go to the 1970s to win a disco contest for one of the machine parts. Nate and Dave head there, where Nate fails miserably to dance and Dave effortlessly wins the show with his dance moves. They head back to Egypt, where Patrice has somehow gotten herself crowned the queen of Egypt and gotten the machine piece.

Next, they head to the time of the dinosaurs, where Patrice has to stop Nate from getting himself killed several times due to his love of dinosaurs. Finding giant prehistoric plants and a zombie village, Nate finds out that he had been sitting on the piece they were looking for the whole time. However, Crazy Dave forgot that they needed to be rescued and went back to the modern day to do his own thing. Attacked by zombies and dinosaurs, they are cornered and about to be overrun, but Crazy Dave rescues them at the last second. He then explains that the next piece is in the future.

Arriving in the Far Future, where the zombies have gained intelligence, Nate and Patrice find out that they have become their future, grownup selves. A transmission from Zomboss reveals that they are wanted criminals and have unique skills. Patrice is an incredibly skilled martial artist and Nate is a proficient anti-zombie scientist. The future zombies alert Zomboss to their presence, who arrives and starts a battle. Despite Future Patrice's exceptional martial arts, the zombies and their futuristic machines press on until Nate wires an E.M.Peach into a broadcasting system to shut down the zombie weapons. Uncovering the piece, they time-travel out of the future as Zomboss swears revenge.

Now in the Pirate Seas, they find out that the machine part they need was buried in an island by the dread pirate Chestbeard. Utilizing Blovers to move the island they are on, they race the zombies to the island as well as Chestbeard, who is coming to reclaim his treasure. Nate engages the zombies in combat while Patrice sneaks around and is caught by Chestbeard. However, she stalls long enough for the Chompers she's with to steal the treasure and allow her to escape as well.

Back in modern times, Crazy Dave tells them that he can reverse-engineer the Sun Vacuum parts to make a Sun Magnifier that will empower the plants, but needs them to hold off the army of zombies at his door. The overwhelming number of zombies force them to retreat until they realize that they have a time machine, which they then use to freeze the zombies in time, allowing them to finish the machine and do a multitude of mundane activities. When time unfreezes, Zomboss finds, to his dismay, that the Sun Magnifier is done and all of the plants are huge and powerful now. The empowered plants easily defeat the zombie army and Zomboss is captured and imprisoned. To celebrate, Nate, Patrice, and Crazy Dave hold a pizza party. Much to Patrice's surprise, Chestbeard delivers their pizza, revealing that he got lost in time and ended up here. Nate then invites him in and they all enjoy their pizza together, wearing little pizza bibs.

Book information

• Writer: Paul Tobin
• Artist: Ron Chan
• Colorist: Matt J. Rainwater
• Cover Artist: Ron Chan
• Genre: Humor, Action/Adventure, Kids
• Number of Pages: 80

Shop description

A fun-dead adventure through time!

Crazy Dave the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top-notch neighborhood defenders helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off Zomboss's latest attack in Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse! This new, standalone tale will tickle your funny bones and thrill . . . your brains! Collects the Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse digital comics into one hardcover!

• The hit video game returns to comics!

• Tobin and Chan take us on another original PvZ adventure.

Gallery

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  A signed hardcover, displayed alongside editor Philip R. Simon’s cat, Thelonius
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Comic preview

Note: This preview only show the 10 first pages of the first issue of the story.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Timepocalypse
French	Le temps de l'apocalypse !
Spanish	Tiempocalipsis

Trivia

• Nate and Patrice make their second appearance in this book.
• This comic first introduced Fred the Sunflower, Jeff the Bloomerang, and Grrawr-bear the Ultimate Face-Puncher.
• At the time of the comic's release, the Disco period and the age of dinosaurs were not part of the game and were unique to the comic.
  • Later, similar worlds were added in Plants vs. Zombies 2 through future updates, like the Neon Mixtape Tour, a music-themed world set in the 80s rather than the 70s, and Jurassic Marsh.
• The cover features these following characters:
  • Plants: Peashooter, Repeater, Pea Pod, Bloomerang, Twin Sunflower, Bonk Choy, Split Pea, Tall-nut, Blover, Snapdragon, Magnet-shroom, and Jalapeno.
  • Zombies: Pirate Zombie, Cowboy Zombie, Imp Mummy, Seagull Zombie, Ra Zombie (defeated), and Zombot Plank Walker (silhouette)
  • Others: Crazy Dave, Penny, Nate, and Patrice
• Since Crazy Dave has only just finished constructing Penny at the start of the comic, this places the story before the events of Plants vs. Zombies 2 chronologically.
• Although this is presumably Dave’s first experience with time travel, there are already plants present in the past, implying they existed there naturally.
• The back of Penny functions as a manure spreader.
• Penny does not speak, unlike in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Additionally, she is never referred to by name.
• Throughout the comic, two Magnet-Shrooms and Blovers are present on top of Penny at all times, although they are not there in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
• Crazy Dave eventually succeeds in finding the missing issue of Leapfrog Quarterly, as indicated by its appearance on his desk when Citron explains his origin story in Garden Warfare Volume 1.
• This was the first comic in which Zomboss speaks for the entire duration, a change from Lawnmageddon, where he had been mostly silent.
  • The 'voice thingamajiggie' is absent from Zomboss' jacket, despite being required for him to speak English in the Boss Mode Trailer.
  • This was also the first comic to feature Pop Smarts, which would become a staple of Zomboss' character and eventually be incorporated into the games.
• On page 9, as a Buckethead Zombie is attempting to steal one of his Pop Smarts, Zomboss turns around and, without realizing it, accidentally slaps its hand off.
• Page 74 features a Snow Repeater.
  • Although it may just be a Snow Pea with eyebrows.
• Timepocalypse is a portmanteau of "time" and "apocalypse."
• It makes a cameo in the Z7-Mech trailer located on a desk.
• In the age of dinosaurs, Nate and Patrice did not meet the primitive plants from Jurassic Marsh, but they meet giant plants from the original Plants vs. Zombies, such as Giant Sunflower, Giant Peashooter, Giant Wall-nut, Giant Chomper, and Giant Cactus.
• When Zomboss is defeated, Patrice delivers a punch to his stomach, causing him to topple over and groan, 'Ooo... my pancreas...' This could be a reference to the original Plants vs. Zombies, where Crazy Dave incorrectly claimed that a hit to the pancreas was Zomboss’ weakness.
• On page 19, an Egyptian Balloon Zombie appears, a zombie type that does not exist in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
• Fred the Sunflower has a noticeably squarer head than the other sunflowers.
• On page 20, panel 1, an Iceberg Lettuce can be seen freezing the zombie dog.
• On page 20, a zombie groans 'Pop Smarts?' rather than the usual 'Brains?'
  • Similarly, on page 50, a Balloon Zombie says 'Pop?' after its balloon is exploded.
• This comic introduced Crazy Dave's fascination with disco, retconning Plants vs. Zombies: Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains, where he had claimed, 'Nothing good ever came from disco.'
• The Disco Zombie who takes part in the 'Big Bang Disco Contest of 1979' is named Reginald Carefree Winthrop Worthington the Twelfth.
  • It is unclear whether this is simply one of many Disco Zombies in Zomboss’ army or the Disco Zombie.
• The various Backup Dancers in 1979 all resemble the original Plants vs. Zombies design, rather than the one used in promotional material and later games.
• On page 28, there is one human among the various Egyptian zombies.
• There are Neanderthal Zombies present in the Age of the Dinosaurs, despite the fact that Neanderthals would not exist until much later in prehistory.
• After traveling to the future, Nate and Patrice inexplicably become their future selves.
  • In Plants vs. Zombies 2, when Dave travels to the Neon Mixtape Tour, he does not transform into his younger self, despite having been alive at the time.
• There is a missing poster for Crazy Dave stuck to a telephone pole on page 43.
• In 2020, Dr. Zomboss succeeds in establishing what he refers to as a 'Zombie dynasty.' Since Nate and Patrice are still alive, this must take place before the Far Future in 2323. This suggests that Zomboss has complete control over the world, or at least Neighborville, spanning from 2020 to 2323.
• Various Jetpack Zombies appear, despite the Jetpack Zombie Almanac noting that jetpacks wouldn’t become readily available until the brain acquisition tech explosion of 2113.
• In the future, Dr. Zomboss mentions his attempts to rebuild the Sun Vacuum, leaving it unclear whether this is the Zomboss from the future or simply the one from the past who has traveled forward.
• Despite its resemblance to a regular zombie dog, like the one seen earlier in the comic but now dressed in futuristic clothing, Patrice refers to the zombie dog in the future as a 'robot dog.'
• Although the Zombot Plank Walker appears on the cover, it never makes an appearance in the comic. Instead, Zomboss uses a ship that is notably different and shaped more like a traditional ship.
• On page 71, you can spot chips and cards left on Dave's table from the poker game earlier on page 37.
• On page 73, Dave is seen toying with a Self-Sealing Stem Bolt, a reference to Star Trek.

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