Published Jul 2010 by DC/Wildstorm
Written by RICARDO SANCHEZ
Art and cover by JHEREMY RAAPACK

Agents Sugarman and Gere barely escaped death at the talons of Neuerman Giesel's enhanced bio-weapons, and their unit is down to just a few soldiers. Low on ammo, they've discovered Giesel's secret and stand ready to take the fight to him. The only thing standing in their way is the army of T-Virus infected zombies pouring out of the jungle... PLUS: A sequence illustrated by AL BARRIONUEVO.

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

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.

Stories
"The Bio-Weapons of Urador"
Mina Gere and Lupo continue on their way to the security/comms. room, fighting Hunters on their way. Holiday Sugarman reports that Neuermann Giesel has escaped from the compound by plane, and orders his team to meet up with the two women in the comms. room. Mina is told to request that HQ satellite-track the plane as soon as contact is raised.

When Sugarman's team arrives, they find that Gere has finished hacking into the mainframe, which contains schematics for a bio-weapons manufacturing depot in Urador. The village attacks are revealed to have been a demonstration piece for Urador's fascist dictator, Del Valle. The depot has been hidden underneath an old ziggurat.

With Giesel's path confirmed to be heading to the ziggurat, Holiday gets in contact with Branch Commander Espinoza, requesting for a helicopter and SOU reinforcements. His request is denied once more; the situation outside the compound has become too difficult for the BSAA to offer assistance. There are hundreds of zombies pouring out of the jungle. Once the ziggurat has been secured, the nearby BSAA base reluctantly decides to airdrop supplies. A two-page spread shows that the entire base's complement is evacuating civilians out of at least six separate villages under attack from zombies.

Mina informs Sugarman that she has found something new while they prepare to leave. She reads on the terminal that Neuermann was developing t-Virus-based gene therapy to increase regenerative capabilities. She believes now that Neuerman is actually Fritz Giesel, and that he used the gene therapy to regain his youthful body. With a vehicle secured for use, and HQ finding the ziggurat, Holiday orders Mina and Lupo to meet up with the team outside the garage. Arriving at the truck, Mina informs Holiday that Rizzo has dug up his "special request", which he keeps quiet.

As the team drives to the Urador border, Mina explains the purpose of the strange implants they found on the zombies which were attacking the villages. They are "safety devices" that will go off if the bio-weapons become too much of a threat. Holiday orders Vallejo to drive to a green plume of smoke, which he expects to be the site of a supply drop.

They are now some 50 kilometers inside Urador; the supplies they recovered consisted of explosives and ammunition. Sugarman formulates a plan. All five surviving team members will share the explosives and arm the charges when they get inside the ziggurat; they will have to capture Giesel and escape within forty minutes. Lupo's sniper qualifications are brought up, and another team member's demolition's expertise is raised.

Reaching the ziggurat, Lupo begins sniping Hunters and Cerberuses. With the B.O.W.s eliminated, the five move in, following a number of cars into an underground garage. They discover General Del Valle preparing a business meeting with Giesel. Holiday follows the General down a corridor, but realises too late that it is a trap and he is attacked by Giesel.

"Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance"
In this short story, the BSAA's existence is explained. When the US government was forced to use a strategic missile to end the viral outbreak in Raccoon City, an investigation was launched into the Umbrella Corporation. The Global Pharmaceutical Consortium was also hit hard; since Umbrella was a board member, the entire consortium's company members were vilified by the public. Facing bankruptcy, they aided in the prosecution of Umbrella.

When Umbrella was shut down, their bio-weapons flooded into the hands of bio-terrorists; guerrilla fighters and rogue nations through the black market. The Consortium set up a counter-bioterrorism unit in response. Under international pressure, this unit was re-formed as the 'BSAA', under UN-control.

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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