Zombie Resurrected

It's old Horror week at Marvel. At Wizard World Philly 2006, they announced that the Zombie is returning as well as the Son of Satan. Unfortunately, they are completely rebooting the Zombie from scratch. It makes sense--heck, there are only about a couple dozen of us left who remember the black and white Tales of the Zombie? A reboot makes sense from Marvel's point of view, but I think the writer, Mark Raicht, is missing something:

"This is an ensemble piece, but our main character is Simon Garth who is an Assistant Bank Manager. He is nothing special at the beginning of the story. Just a guy caught up in a bank robbery trying to survive. He makes a few semi-heroic choices that lead him into a Zombie nightmare of pretty epic proportions. Layla is a teller at the bank. Simon, and just about every other guy at the bank, has a crush on her. She's probably a bit too much woman for all of them though. She's also tough as nails and pretty opinionated. Not things that would endear you to a bank robber.

"Gyp is a bank robber. He hates Simon. He wants this money and he wants to get away. When the Zombies show up they're just another obstacle to him."

Huh, keeping the Simon Garth character but making him a plain old assistant manager? The original Zombie stories had a good deal going with making Garth a powerful boss of his own coffee company, then taking it all away by getting Zombi-fied and making matters worse by having him take orders from whoever wielded the amulet of Damballah. What the heck, I'm cranky--Raicht is probably going for humor in this tale. Nuff said.