Issue 7

	Invader Zim Issue
	Issue 7
	Chronology
Previous:	Issue 6
Next:	Issue 8
	Information
Publisher:	Oni Press
Publication date:	January 27, 2016 (print); February 10, 2016 (digital)
	Creative
Story by:	Kyle Starks
Art by:	Aaron Alexovich; Dave Crossland
Color by:	Warren Wucinich

You are so tiny! You must hail Zim!; Zim is your tallest!
— Zim

Summary

ZIM’s tragic past revealed? Nope! No. Never. Why. But other things will be revealed! Critically acclaimed comedy cartoonist Kyle Starks and also critically acclaimed cartoonist Dave Crosland join forces on this explosive issue!

Release

Issue 7 was released on February 10, 2016

Variations

Dave Crosland standard retail cover
Kyle Starks variant cover

Issue #7 has a total of 2 cover variations.

Dave Crosland standard retail cover
Kyle Starks variant cover

Appearing in Issue #7

Major Characters:

Minor Characters:

Recap Kid
Battleslug 7000 (debut)
Dib Membrane (Invader WHO? subplot)

Synopsis

SPOILER WARNING OF DOOM: This section or article may contain spoilers!

Zimcrashinthevootagain — ZIM, distracted by GIR, crashes the voot on an unknown planet

The comic starts off with Zim and GIR flying through space in the Voot Cruiser, apparently surviving Blastropolis, the most violent battle mall in all of space, coming out with all sorts of weapons in the process. After Zim asks GIR what he got, GIR shows him a slug-like alien, startling Zim and causing them to crash land on a rocky planet in the process. Zim proceeds to blames GIR after being ejected from the Voot Cruiser and immediately starts to repair it, until noticing the rocky, lifeless planet starting to grow plants at a alarmingly fast rate which would usually take millions of years. Zim speculates the Voot Cruiser's leaking fluid started the fast paced evolution for life on the planet.

Slug vs ladybug — ZIM attempts to retrieve his voot from the mutated lady bugs

By the fluid, Zim notices single celled lifeforms start to rise out of it. Zim commands the creatures to obey him since he is the tallest lifeform on the planet, and they happily comply with him. After this, Zim spits into the fluid, creating a mini copy of himself, which is immediately killed by the cells. Zim and GIR walk through more plants, and GIR touches Blerks, aliens that look very similar to Earth's ladybugs, causing them to grow bigger. Zim gets frighted by the sight of so many giant Blerks and kills them all with his PAK lasers. The cell organisms praise Zim afterwards, apparently annoying him. After this, more big Blerks come and take Zim's Voot Cruiser. Zim commands the cells to go after them and get the Cruiser back, but they come back empty handed after 30 seconds (but for the cells, it's felt like a thousand years). Zim then hatches an idea and asks GIR to throw the slug alien into the fluid, making him huge. Zim then uses they weapons they obtained to put on the slug, and calls him Battleslug 7000. With the help and the slug and the cells, Zim defeats the Blerks and gets his Cruiser back.

Much to Zim's surprise, the cells instantly turn into tallest blue lifeforms, already fixing his ship and asking him to destroy them. Zim shruggly complies and blows the planet up, leaving in the Cruiser. GIR then reminds Zim that he left all the weapons on that planet, and the main story of this issue ends.

Invader Who? Subplot

Zap zap special KC green guest comic — Time to erase some memories

Another short story written by KC Green appears in this issue, starting off with Zim erasing Dib's memory, trying to make Dib forget about Zim and all his evil plans. This however backfires, and a ray that deflects off of Dib's glasses hits Zim, making him forget who Dib was and what the machine's purpose was, continuing to shoot erasing rays at Dib. The panel then shoots to Zim having a conversation with GIR, calling him Brian instead since he lost his memory. Zim complains to "Brian" of how that annoying baby (Dib) was yelling and screaming, and that he got annoyed by it and left him, and the comic ends.

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