John Sears | January 20, 2012
Sometimes your so-called journalists just can’t resist a little Zombie bashing as they go about their day. Tragically, quite a few of these prejudiced scribes seem to work at Boing Boing, perhaps inspired by the bad example of Cory Doctorow, who can say. So when we were linked to a post about some Zombie Family [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2012
We’ve talked about indie (and fairly obviously Anti-Zom) film ‘The Dead’ before on the ZRC blog. Well, now it’s coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray: Been awhile since we wrote about this flick; I just learned (via Quiet Earth) that it’s heading for home video – DVD/Blu-ray – on February 14th, just under a month [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2012
Did you know that it’s been 15 years since Capcom started peddling Anti-Zombie prejudice in the ‘Resident Evil’ game series? Well, it has, and they’re even having a party to, ahem, celebrate: CAPCOM revealed on Tuesday that it will stream its Resident Evil (Biohazard) 15th anniversary party being held in Tokyo on its Ustream channel [...]
John Sears | January 17, 2012
The following post is rather long but important. The short story: the ZRC website and blog will be down on Wednesday, January 18th as part of a (much) larger internet protest against an odious proposed new censorship law, the Stop Online Piracy/PROTECT IP Act. This law directly threatens what we do here at the ZRC, [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
Some time ago Magic the Gathering came out with a new expansion set of cards called (and set in) a world called ‘Innistrad’. It’s a very gothic horror flavored fantasy scenario, with werewolves, demons, vampires and at least two very different sorts of Zombie; what you might call ‘Traditional’ Zombies resurrected by Necromancy, and the [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
The Zombie Community obviously has a lot of legitimate grievances with George A. Romero; his highly influential and patently offensive series of Anti-Zombie ‘of the Dead’ films contribute a lot of the ugly prejudices still seen in our society today. Yet he did also make ‘Creepshow’, one of the better Zombie movies, featuring, as it [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2012
My background (and degree, at least until Indiana University realizes what they’ve done) is in Political Science, and I also desperately crave original Zombie projects for the ZRC to look at, so this sounds right up my alley. In fact, I think it may have parked there long-term: Bringing blood-thirsty zombies and communists to the [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2012
We’ve been having quite a discussion about Zombies and their representation in next-generation tabletop roleplaying game ‘Legend’, and I thought you should all see the latest counter-arguments from the ‘Legend’ publicity department in full. Some interesting, and some objectionable, stuff here: Hello again, John! I’m glad to see we have an open and frank dialogue [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2012
This is a bizarre, already-fully-funded project to make prints out of a series of illustrations celebrating the ‘Oh Sh*t’ (they bleep it, not me) moment when someone apparently realizes they are completely and utterly doomed. And one of the flavors of that doom is Zombies: Oh Expletive is a project of epic epicness. It is [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2012
We were graciously loaned an e-galley of this one by the publisher, so the ZRC had an opportunity to see how the fictional shadow government agency created by Mike Mignola, staffed prominently by a demon no less, handles Undead relations. In a word: poorly. First, the official description: Devastated over the loss of his luchador [...]