whole lab to explode. The resulting pollen cloud descends on the raving Purple Smurfs, reverting them to normality once and for all. This is the one of the few Smurfs comic books where a Smurf is seen without a hat. Papa Smurf has his blown away by the final explosion, revealing a bald head. In a later adventure, "The Egg and the Smurfs", it is revealed that Grouchy Smurf's moody and unsociable personality is because of the lasting effects of the fly that bit him. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Lazy Smurf is bitten by the fly first. This story was later used as the basis for an episode of the Smurfs cartoon, though their skin color was changed from black to purple, in order to avoid possible racial connotations. Followers of zombie fiction have remarked the similarities between the plot of The Black Smurfs and that of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, which introduced a new archetype of zombies that would be later used in other fiction works: plagues of zombies that infect the living people, turning them violent, irrational and uncontrolled, as the black Smurfs. However, there had been other fictional works that could also be considered precedents of this zombie archetype. The Flying Smurf A blue Smurf desperately wishes to be able to fly in the air, and tries various means to defy gravity and accomplish his dream, such as sticking feathers to his arms, building a hot-air balloon and eating much yeast. The Smurfnapper A reclusive sorcerer, Gargamel, wants to create the philosopher's stone. In his magic recipe book, he finds out that one of the ingredients for making it is a Smurf. He succeeds in catching a Smurf and locks him up in a cage. Papa Smurf and the others quickly go to rescue the imprisoned Smurf, but opening the cage proves a case of easier said than done. This is Gargamel's first appearance in the Smurfs canon, and his motive for stealing Smurfs is made clear here, although it was slightly inconsistent in latter stories and adaptations. Publication The comic was re-released in 2010 for the US market as "The Purple Smurfs" by Papercutz in September 2010, with artist Diego Jourdan Pereira in charge of the re-coloring (and partly redrawing) of all black smurfs into purple ones with red eyes. Translated by Joe Johnson, this contains a different third story,