Panel 1: Kimura Ran, wounded and alone under red emergency lighting, peers cautiously through a hospital security door window as she leaves survivors behind and prepares to face the spreading zombie outbreak herself. Panel 2: Ran spots two hospital security guards through a glass door, believing she may have found help as she navigates a bloodstained hospital corridor during the undead crisis. Panel 3: Horror comic panel revealing the security guards are infected zombies, their glowing eyes and screaming faces exposing the terrifying collapse of hospital security during the outbreak. Panel 4: Kimura Ran ducks for cover outside a hospital security office as zombie security guards slam against reinforced glass, while her internal narration reflects rising dread, exhaustion, and the horrifying weight of reality setting in.

Panel 1: Kimura Ran, wounded and alone under red emergency lighting, peers cautiously through a hospital security door window as she leaves survivors behind and prepares to face the spreading zombie outbreak herself. Panel 2: Ran spots two hospital security guards through a glass door, believing she may have found help as she navigates a bloodstained hospital corridor during the undead crisis. Panel 3: Horror comic panel revealing the security guards are infected zombies, their glowing eyes and screaming faces exposing the terrifying collapse of hospital security during the outbreak. Panel 4: Kimura Ran ducks for cover outside a hospital security office as zombie security guards slam against reinforced glass, while her internal narration reflects rising dread, exhaustion, and the horrifying weight of reality setting in.

Transcript

Panel 1:
Ran (Narration): I left them to fix this.

Panel 2:
Ran (Narration): So I’d better fix it.

Panel 3:
Ran (Narration): Godsdammit!

Panel 4:
Ran (Narration): The hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Ran (Narration): I tell myself it’s about what’s coming...
Ran (Narration): ...not the adrenaline fading and the reality finally catching up.

Dead shall rise – Chapter 3 page 5
Posted on June 15, 2026 by Maho Noir

And here’s where Ran’s “go get help” plan immediately runs headfirst into the kind of luck that only seems to happen to her.

I really love this page because it leans hard into one of my favorite horror mechanics:
False hope.

Security should mean safety. It’s one of those instinctive things-- you see the uniforms, the label on the glass, the implication of authority, and your brain wants to believe maybe, finally, something is going right.

So naturally... absolutely not.