What If the Virus in The Boys Were a Zombie Virus?

Billy Butcher is dying. His brain tumor has left him only a few months.

Before he dies, he decides to do one right thing: release a virus that can kill all superhumans. One injection, and the world will be clean.

But the virus is contaminated in transit.

It doesn't kill the superhumans. It turns them into something else: neither dead nor alive, but some in-between state that should never exist in this world. The infection spreads like wildfire, burning from the morgue to the streets, from the Seven to the Boys.

Starlight raises her glowing fist, but all it illuminates is devastation. Is Kimiko's healing ability the hope of immunity, or an even deeper trap? Is Soldier Boy's energy pulse the only cure, or will it just add fuel to the fire?

And Homelander, the former ruler of the world, shows fear for the first time.

This isn't a story about heroes fighting monsters. It's a story about what happens when the weapon meant to protect the world destroys it. In the final minutes before the apocalypse arrives, before most of the superhumans turn into monsters, what do they have left?

When someone you know becomes someone you no longer recognize.