John Sears | September 13, 2011
In the process of writing about Seth Grahame-Smith’s apparent quest to remake every cultural touchstone from human history recently, the ZRC came across this potential gem: Night of the Living, a stop-motion animated film that Grahame-Smith might script, with Burton producing along with KatzSmith. A town of peaceful monsters must learn how to fight when [...]
John Sears | September 12, 2011
We’ve had our differences with Seth Grahame-Smith here at the ZRC; his ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ novel kickstarted the truly unfortunate trend of ‘Put Zombies Into Anything, Especially Public Domain Works No One Owns Anymore’ Trend. (Aka: the Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute). Don’t get us wrong; a thoughtful Zombified remake of a classic work [...]
John Sears | September 12, 2011
(our booth over the weekend, exhibiting a slideshow of past activism) Sorry about getting this post up so late; we were beat and unpacking and all that today. Somehow despite being in town the convention was pretty exhausting! We had three long but festive days of outreach. The ZRC spent Saturday and Sunday all day [...]
John Sears | September 11, 2011
This particular charitable Zombie Walk I’m not sure the ZRC could have gotten *entirely* behind since it doubled as a game launch event for notable Evil Anti-Zombie game ‘Dead Island’: Zombies aren’t usually known for being the most charitable or fun loving monsters, but come this Labor Day, a group of zombies will be just [...]
John Sears | September 11, 2011
This time in Amherst, Ohio, and benefiting a food bank: AMHERST — A zombie walk Sept. 10, where people dress in full zombie makeup and walk like zombies in Amherst, will take place to collect food for the Second Harvest Food Bank. The zombie walk is for zombies of all ages and is family-friendly. See? [...]
John Sears | September 10, 2011
Sorry I didn’t have time to update much today, it was *crazy* at the Kon. First of all, had some setup issues, then there was a huge traffic jam I got caught in running a forgotten bit of supplies there, etc. However, all in all it was a fantastic first day. (Our mostly set-up booth. [...]
John Sears | September 8, 2011
This sounds like a wildly inappropriate contest. Needless to say, I entered only for the slim chance of taking this dangerous hardware off the streets: Little Bit Zombie To Give Away A Zombie Killing Truck In a great promotion from the folks behind A Little Bit Zombie, they are giving their readers a chance to [...]
John Sears | September 8, 2011
We may have mentioned the existence of this upcoming documentary before on the blog, but for those who aren’t yet aware: a documentary entitled ‘MORE BRAINS! A Return to the Living Dead’ is coming out in the near future, documenting the production and behind-the-scenes work on infamously Anti-Zombie film ‘Return of the Living Dead’. A [...]
John Sears | September 7, 2011
We received a comment here on the blog recently from an ‘animelover’ who seems to have trawled our archives back for months and discovered the post covering the ‘Zombie Walk Against Walker’, a prominent and highly successful bit of political activism by the Differently Animated here in Madison last spring. For the record, as we [...]
John Sears | September 6, 2011
We’ve talked about ‘Project Zomboid’ before here on the ZRC blog, but now a review of the tech demo was brought to our attention and it highlights precisely the sort of Anti-Zombie gameplay we feared: The world as we know it has come to an end. Zombies roam the land as humans struggle to survive, [...]