Posted By John Sears on September 3, 2010

Come visit The Zombie Rights Campaign booth at Geek-Kon; we’re located in the Vendor’s Room, since there’s no room for civil rights lobbies per se. Plus we will have stuff to sell! Lurch for the Cure shirts, wrist-bands and the like, so on and so forth.

This convention we will also have a semi-limited supply of Atomic Age Cinema TV 2: Electric Boogaloo, the critically acclaimed second feature in the AACTV ongoing series. You can pick up your copy, free with any donation to the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation. Absolutely free, just drop some money in the bowl… or whatever collection device we come up with.

All this plus Zombie Activism and more fun, starting Friday!

So come on out to Geek-Kon at the Marriot West in Middleton, aka Madison’s west side, and see Zombie Rights in action.

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Posted By John Sears on September 2, 2010

Details below the cut, but a short version: from a Zombie Rights perspective, atrocious, insulting, disturbing. From a gaming perspective, limited, brief, at times frustrating, more of the same.

Even if you hate Zombies and love videogames where you kill them (for some disturbed reason) there’s no particular reason to do it in this one.

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Posted By John Sears on August 31, 2010

Or maybe it’s ‘Case 0′, like in the title screen? Whatever.

Ok, so the ZRC played the Dead Rising 2 prologue for a few hours this evening over dinner (a lovely ricotta and parmesean stuffed tortellini with a simple marinara sauce, thanks for asking). First impressions follow:

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Posted By John Sears on August 31, 2010

Here’s something we can all enjoy, before the ZRC has to begin its videogame odyssey into the veritable Heart of Darkness that is Capcom’s media empire, first with Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, then Resident Evil: Afterlife, the full game, and who knows what other horrors yet to come: a lighthearted youtube video about accepting Zombies, for the good of America.

Yes, America. Watch this short film to learn why hating Zombies is, in fact, akin to hating the very United States itself.

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Posted By John Sears on August 31, 2010

A very important ZRC Expose on Dead Rising 2 and Fake Zombie Advocates below the cut.

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Posted By John Sears on August 31, 2010

As of this morning, my Xbox informs me, you can download the prologue to upcoming Zombie-bashing megahit Dead Rising 2. Not that I’m suggesting that you SHOULD, of course. It’s just something that all Zombies and Zombie allies need to be aware of.

The Zombie Rights Campaign has bitten the bullet on this issue and as we speak, having handed good American money over to the morally dubious folks at Capcom (via their partners in crime on Case Zero at the Xbox Live Marketplace, vendors of many an anti-Zombie product). The outrageously large download (824 megs) is streaming onto our hard drive as I write this entry, and soon you will have a first-hand account of the horrors of this sequel to a game that should never have seen the light of day to begin with. The moral outrages and indifference to Undead Rights will be fully catalogued, and rest assured, exposed for all the world to see by your dedicated Zombie Rights staffers here at the ZRC.

The Zombie Rights Campaign: We see, and play, these terrible things so that you don’t have to. So that you can keep your hands… clean.

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Posted By John Sears on August 30, 2010

I got to prepping a bit for our convention appearance this weekend (I know, I procrastinate a lot) and noticed an interesting group is appearaing in concert at the convention:

Dr. Cancer and the SKAmbies!
This year, close out the convention with a bang! Dr. Cancer was an unsuccessful, washed up, loner until he had a great idea. Take over the world using the untapped potential of Ska music. By reanimated bodies of dead musicians Dr. Cancer created the SKAmbies! An undead musical force to be reckoned with. They play a few unique and intriguing originals and combine them with a postmortem take on songs you may know. Dr. Cancer and the SKAmbies! plan to recruit you, as the SKAmbie Army grows every day. Check Dr. Cancer and the SKAmbies! out on both Myspace and Facebook.

Ska-playing Zombies? The mind boggles.

Not so much because of Zombie musicians, but I haven’t heard a ska band in a while. I dunno; I’m too busy with Zombie Rights to keep up with musical trends. Is ska back? Do I sound like an old man here? Should I be telling people to get off my virtual lawn?

The important thing for the ZRC is: what does this mean for Zombie Rights?

The Zombie-’Creator’ relationship can be fraught with peril, after all. Many powerful individuals, whether using science or necromancy or other means entirely, create the Differently Animated only as a source of cheap labor. We need to investigate and ensure that this ‘Dr. Cancer’ is a suitable employer/creator/collaborator and is not abusing the trust of the Differently Animated he brings back from the grave. The ZRC is also interested in the perspective of a Zombie musical act on advancing Zombie Rights through music, and of course we are concerned about the possible use/abuse of Zombies as a purely exploitative entertainment act. Nobody wants the Undead equivalent of a minstrel show here in 21st century Madison.

The ZRC will try to obtain answers to these questions and provide them during the show this weekend, so stay tuned, as always.

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Posted By John Sears on August 30, 2010

This is a new Starburst ad in its ongoing series of ‘Korean guy wearing a Kilt’ commercials… featuring a Zombie.

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Posted By John Sears on August 30, 2010

Just a bit of a programming note to remind anyone and everyone that The Zombie Rights Campaign will be at Geek Kon here in lovely Madison, Wisconsin this weekend, September 3rd-5th.

This is our first year at the local geeky convention and we’re hoping to have a good time and do some serious outreach for the Zombie Community.

Also note: the following weekend we will be in Chicago, to be precise Schaumburg on the North side, appearing at and participating in a Zombie Rights March to protest the release of Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D at the new Imax theatre. We really hope to generate a good crowd to make the AMC chain and Screen Gems aware of the negative impact this film will have on the Differently Animated, so come out, have a good time and help us make a difference.

It’s what a Zombie would do; they’re very community-oriented.

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Posted By John Sears on August 29, 2010

Given that the US release of Japanese Anti-Zombie Game ‘Dead Rising 2′ is days away, the availability of this product in Japan comes as particularly disturbing news:

“Zombie Meat,” an exquisite new Japanese snack for the horror enthusiast, consists of bite-sized chunks of tender blue flesh that, according to the package, has been aged to deadly perfection at the graveyard.

Zombie Meat? I’m assuming this is a horrible joke and not actual Zombies, dry-aged and then chopped up and placed in bags to be sold at Tokyo convenience stores, but still…

The ghastly meat snack, which tastes remarkably like peppered beef jerky, can be found at select shops in Japan for 399 yen (about $4.50) per pack.

At this point I think we need to seriously consider the question of whether Japan, as a nation, has a vicious anti-Zombie bias. Zombies are poorly treated around the world, but Japan has taken the lead in recent years, going above and beyond even the United States in its demagoguery against the Differently Animated. Videogames, movies, anime, comics, all glorifying the persecution of the Undead, and now even simulated (we sincerely hope) Zombie Meat?

What horrible insult to the Differently Animated will come out of that atavistic archipelago next? Perhaps a Zombie Apocalypse theme park where you get to kill (again hopefully) simulated Zombies? Maybe you could have discounts for the youngsters, get them into the murder and hate early. Under 12 year sold, half off!

Man. Japan needs to look deep within its national heart and consider whether this is what they want to be known for in the years to come. This ugliness is a stain upon their national character, and they should be appalled.

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