The Sacrifice Part 1

Part 1 was released September 14.

Plot
As the comic starts off we see Bill mortally wounded at his final resting place in “The Passing” in the chapter “The Port”. As he monologues about his care for fellow survivors he suddenly comes to the realization there are three tanks closing in on his position, while sitting waiting for them to enter the room he lights up his final cigarette and accepts his fate as one tank enters the room ready to attack Bill.

The story then shifts to one week ago to “The Farmhouse Finale” as Zoey, Francis, and Louis are fighting on the top floor. As Francis throws a pipe bomb he accidentally misses the window which attracts several zombies to their current position until the bomb explodes making a huge hole in the wall. As rescue then arrives Zoey realizes that the team is missing Bill and decides to go downstairs to look for him before they can leave, when asked by Louis if they should have gone with Zoey to check on Bill, Francis replies that “He's been in one of his vietnammy moods all night." and how to never interrupt him while he is fighting.

Downstairs Bill is very effortlessly dispatching several common infected with an AK-47 alone until Zoey arrives and warns him the rescue vehicle has arrived, after he finishes clearing out the bottom floor single handedly he and Zoey go upstairs to meet up with Louis and Francis. After meeting up with the rest of the team and clearly displeased his team haven’t left for the rescue vehicle yet, a Tank shows up after ripping through the door way trapping them in their room with their only way out the hole Francis made with his pipebomb earlier. After taunting it he lights the Tank’s face on fire with his molotov which doesn’t slow it down, it’s not until Louis throws a propane tank which after exploding, causes the Tank to stumble allowing all four survivors to open fire upon the Tank killing it.

As the Tank finally dies and they leave the Farmhouse to burn by jumping out of the hole in the wall, they finally decide to run to the rescue vehicle narrowly avoiding a small hoard of zombies. However as all but Francis is inside the escape vehicle, he starts to get very cocky and after taking his time to “Give a zombie the finger” a Smoker grabs Francis’ leg and starts to pull him towards it. Louis narrowly managing to grab on to Francis’s hand holds on to Francis long enough for Zoey to shoot the Smoker with her sniper rifle killing it and freeing Francis.

As they all enter the escape vehicle and begin to leave the Farmhouse reactions are mixed, as Bill and Zoey are clearly exhausted and mellow, Louis and Francis argue about Louis being too optimistic, and Francis being too pessimistic about their uncertain future after the rescue driver leaves them in the dark about where they are going after being told through the radio to not go to the original destination of “Echo” but instead somewhere else entirely named “Millhaven”. As Francis reminds Louis that “Everything’s getting’ worse, all the time” and how “Nothin’s gonna be okay ever again” Louis has a flashback to his former job at “Franklin Brothers I.T. Department” in Philadelphia two days after first infection.

As Louis was working in his department, a co-worker named Ray calls in sick out of fear of the rapidly spreading infection much to Louis’ dismay. As Louis tries in vain to convince Ray to come into work you find out that the infection seems to have the whole city riled up in a relatively short period of time. Louis then goes to the bathroom and while on his phone in his stall, a man starts to bang on his stall door. After trying to tell the man the stall in occupied the man on the other side vomits blood onto the floor which seeps in under the stall door and grabs Louis’ attention. After peeking over the door seeing a trail of blood leading behind him he is attacked and bit by a common infected which Louis kills with a metal toilet paper holder inside his stall. In shock Louis leaves the bathroom (Presumably sometime later as it is now night time and his office is now in ruin) and sits out of his office building’s high-rise window looking at the streets as he reflects on his bite mark and what just happened to him.

Back right after “The Farmhouse finale” the driver of the rescue vehicle (Named, Rescue 9/Captain Mora) talks to his/her teammates asking to talk to the major about the rescue and how he/she “Saw it, and can’t believe it.”

As all four survivors are awoken by three soldiers they are ordered to put their weapons on the ground and step out of the car slowly, as Francis makes a few crude remarks one of the soldiers knocks him unconscious to stop his talking. They are then given a warning that if “Anybody makes a break for it, that body gets shot.” As they are ordered to follow a soldier Zoey questions the soldier about Echo safe zone and where they are being taken. After being told they are going for “testing” it is revealed that Millhaven has a giant pile of burning bodies they are using for disposal which leaves Zoey clearly anxious.

The story will continue in part 2 and will also follow Zoey's background story.