Published Jun 2009 by DC/Wildstorm
Part 2 of 6
Written by Rick Sanchez
Art and cover by Kevin Sharpe and Jim Clark
32 pages, full color

The prequel to the most anticipated new game of 2009 continues as Chris Redfield's fight against the proliferation of B.O.W.s rages on! His current mission takes him to the jungles of Brazil and on the hunt for a Nazi scientist whose dark genetic research has gone awry. And through it all, learn more about the failed mission that still haunts Chris!

Resident Evil is a prequel comic to Resident Evil 5 published by Wildstorm and written by Ricardo Sanchez.

Find out what led Chris Redfield to Africa and learn the dark burden that haunts him! An absolute must-read for fans of the franchise and a starting point for new readers!

The dedicated agents of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance face off against virus-spreading bio-weapons both in space and on land. The Joint Nations Space Research Station has gone offline; BSAA Agent Mina Gere investigates and is confronted by a crew of flesh-eating bio-weapons. Veteran mercenary Holiday Sugarman is sent to remote Grezbekistan; when his team is wiped out by G-Virus infected militiamen, he must face G-Prime - alone.

"Dirty Jobs"
Five days into the outbreak on the Joint Nations Space Research Station, BSAA agent Mina Gere has arrived and made contact with the deadly new bio-weapon, Hydra. She reports it as a "problem" to her space shuttle, Wayfarer, though refuses to answer their calls while she fires at it with her magnum, going as far as to tell them to stop.

Moving through a corridor, Mina spies a pool of blood. Moving over to investigate, a zombie moves in on her from the corner. Mina is not so naive, and turns to stab it in the stomach. Mina informs the Wayfarer of the situation regarding the Hydra - it is a new form of Bio Organic Weapon not encountered before, and presumably the source of the outbreak. With information relayed between Mina and the BSAA headquarters, the Wayfarer crewman reports that the BSAA is unfamiliar with the B.O.W. based her camera feed.

Mina Gere fights her way though the crew accommodation area.

Mina reports back through Wayfarer her concerns that the lack of gravity could make B.O.W. development easier and organisms capable of surviving in vacuum may develop - Wayfarer reports back that her audio feed is also being transmitted to headquarters automatically. Mina asks for permission to eradicate the infestation by destroying the station, if necessary. Mina inquires as to which hatch the "life support hatch" is - she is informed it is the "one on the right". The other, she is told, leads to the crew accommodation. Mina inquires about her permissions - the BSAA has given her authorization to do as she sees fit. She promptly comes up with a plan involving the cooling system; nuclear power, and an electromagnetic pulse.

Due to the dangers, Wayfarer must leave. Asking for the closest way to the airlock when needed, the Wayfarer crew answer that she can find it through the crew accommodation area. Mina adds her intention to use the ventilation system to make the station's destruction complete (should any B.O.W. be spaceborne). As the Wayfarer activates its engines, Mina discharges the Hydrogen refrigerant and heads off for the airlock. Moving through the crew accomidation, Mina stumbles onto the infected crew, whose skins have all turned pink. She shoots one in the head and stabs another in the eye before ejecting herself into space with an EVA unit.

The space station's explosion can be seen by South American tribesmen in an isolated part of Brazil. Mina safely escapes the debris field and change course for the Wayfarer. Floating back, she jokes that a public relations office must be invented to deal with the events on the space station, but is unable to get a good signal from the shuttle for a time. As it gets nearer, they are able to talk to one another - a crewman jokes that they must get back now because a US Senator wants to get his picture taken with them. In a call with the President, Mina informs him that they have detected a bio-weapons satellite and that the US Air Force has been scrambled to shoot it down. The President reminds the crew not to let any surviving (spaceborne) B.O.W.s land in Montana, later shifting to more serious matters in that he must consult his cabinet with how to handle such an international situation.

Holiday Sugarman stabs the G-Prime

Back to the 'present', BSAA Agent Holiday Sugarman is exploring the nation of Grezbekistan, being stalked by G-Virus-infected creatures. Moving into a cave overlooking the forest, he recovers a weapon and some ammunition from a box. Before setting off to fight the creatures, he examines an alcoholic bottle. Hoping it is real and not fermented goatmilk stored by local militiamen, he turns it into a Molotov cocktail and tosses it at the deformed creautres. One creature is hit directly, causing it to mutate into a more powerful creature, as the other infected climb a small cliff up to him. Holiday opens another box, very conveniently containing a rocket launcher. Firing it at the largest creature results in very little damage to it, but Sugarman notices that the other G-creatures all seemed to recoil in sympathetic pain in response to the attack. Realizing all the creatures are connected by a hivemind and with the rocket launcher now useless, Sugarman stabs wildly at the encroaching creatures before leaping off the cliff and embedding his lucky knife in the head creature's brain, killing it and triggering a psychic backlash that kills the other G-creatures.

As Sugarman receives an interesting piece of information implying a link with "Geisel Industries" to the outbreak. With his work finished, 'Roadie Two' is authorized to extract him and Denton. He heads back to his BSAA partner, giving him the good news. The helicopter arrives for extraction as Holiday burns the corpses with a flamethrower.

Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard,[a] is a Japanese horror video game series and media franchise created by Capcom. It consists of survival horror, third-person shooter, and first-person shooter games. The franchise has expanded into a live-action film series, animated films, television series, comic books, novels, audio dramas, and other media and merchandise.

In 2021, a reboot film was made, titled Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

Despite all the installments receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the Resident Evil film series has grossed over $1.2 billion. At various points throughout the 2010s, the series was the highest-grossing film series based on a video game, the highest-grossing zombie film series, and the highest-grossing horror film series although it has since been surpassed in all of these categories.The series does hold the record for the most live-action film adaptations of a video game.

Constantin Film was in development of a Resident Evil animated series in 2005, intended as a spin-off of Resident Evil: Apocalypse which would continue Alice and Jill's adventures in the event Sony turned down work on a third film. When Resident Evil: Extinction was greenlit, this project was abandoned. A second attempt at a TV series arose in 2014; owing to a deterioration in Constantin's relationship with Sony Pictures over the cancellation of Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes and Sony Pictures Television's disinterest in the Shadowhunters series, Constantin began shopping around for alternate financiers with the intention it begin production following the release eof Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Work renewed on the television show project in late 2018 following the cancellation of Shadowhunters, with Constantin approaching Netflix to finance the film, with production outsourced to Moonlighting Film, their South Africa partner on The Final Chapter. The series was formally announced in 2020, having been greenlit as an eight episode series with each episode one hour in length. Andrew Dabb was hired as Showrunner alongside a number of other Netflix projects. Due to delays brought on by the pandemic, production was delayed eight months and took place from February-July 2021.

The story makes heavy use of flashbacks, set in both 2022 and 2036. The 2022 plotline involve 14-year-old half-twins Jade and Billie Wesker moving to New Raccoon City. They come to realize that their father may be concealing dark secrets, both that could destroy the world and reveal their true origins. The 2036 plotline takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where Umbrella's T-virus has spread across the world, mutating wildlife and six billion human victims, called "Zeroes", leaving behind a mere 15 million uninfected refugees. It follows Jade, now thirty, in her efforts to survive in this world. The series is scheduled to premiere on July 14, 2022.

A CG anime series, subtitled Infinite Darkness, starring Resident Evil 2 protagonists Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, was released on July 8, 2021 on Netflix.

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