sentences:  Before being convinced of the nature of the zombie plague, he is sickened at the idea that he was ordering soldiers to fire on what he believed to be civilians who were merely sick.Due to the popularity of the Bannerman Clarke character among readers of "Monster Island", and the implicit nature of his apparent death, several Wellington fans began to express hopes of his survival in the comments of the online serialization of it and its sequel, "Monster Planet".This became a meme among some Wellington fans, and hope eventually became partly replaced by dogged insistence—in spite of Wellington's own indications that, yes, Clarke was indeed dead.