John Sears | April 13, 2012
The ZRC will be watching ‘Juan of the Dead’ this weekend, but the international market continues to supply us with new Anti-Zombie ugliness: Billed as the very first Taiwanese zombie movie, Zombie 108 (棄城Z-108) has generated lots of buzz among horror aficionados both at home and abroad. … With a more than adequate beginning that [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2012
Longtime readers of this blog will know that we rarely find shirts featuring Zombies online very agreeable, which is one reason we make our own garments. However, it’s not all bad out there in the internets. Take this ‘Lemming Dead’ shirt: Pretty cute, right? And no vicious put-downs of the Undead in the description or [...]
John Sears | April 8, 2012
The ZRC is always cautious about just putting Zombies into any old story for the novelty’s sake, because usually that novelty is anything but novel and degenerates to an Anti-Zombie pogrom, but handled properly, this sounds like it could be a bit more interesting: Castle has an episode coming up that’s hopping on board a [...]
John Sears | April 8, 2012
Naturally the ZRC disagrees with a great deal about the ‘Humans vs Zombies’ nerf game of tag that’s sweeping college campuses across the nation, starting with the title, which clearly promotes the nonsensical idea that Zombies are not people. Which, clearly, they are. Worse, it fosters an antagonistic, Anti-Undead attitude and a sort of unpleasant [...]
John Sears | April 4, 2012
Well, ok, it’s hardly an exciting time to hang out with the ZRC alone (unless you’re just that enthusiastic about Zombie Rights and Undead Equality, in which case, we love you) but the ZRC is definitely taking Chicago FearFest up on this deal: With the fear fest coming up very soon, we got a special [...]
John Sears | April 4, 2012
Two new, obviously vicious Anti-Zombie games are out this spring and the reviews are mixed, and unfortunately, miss the Zombie Rights angle entirely. Example: Play enough games and you learn some universal rules. An enemy’s weak spot is marked in red; purple items are poison; and zombies make any scenario better. It’s fact. The undead [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2012
It really is sad on a number of levels that the Zombie Community is constantly besmirched by comparisons to various ailments and disorders affecting Living people by those sad individuals, especially online, who are always looking for the imminent downfall of civilization from Undead uprising: A weird disease spreading in Africa has health officials baffled—and [...]
John Sears | April 1, 2012
We previously reported on the crowdfunding campaign for ‘Zombies, Run!’ here on the ZRC blog, but the app is out for download /purchase now, and The Guardian has a typically insensitive and cruel review up: It may seem odd that running is required to escape “the walking dead”, but an engaging story provides a better [...]
John Sears | April 1, 2012
I really don’t know what to make of some of the stuff we see in our email inboxes at the ZRC sometimes: Or, and this is most likely, there will be a zombie apocalypse and the zombies will chew through all the charger cords to all our electronic devices (these will clearly not be brain-sucking [...]
John Sears | March 30, 2012
It’s a sad statement that much of the populace today lives in constant fear of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. You almost can’t blame them; the media feeds our society a constant diet of Anti-Zombie terror and prejudice, from ‘The Walking Dead’ to ‘World War Z’ to an entire gamut of videogames, novels, comics and more. Still, [...]