John Sears | June 6, 2014
Here at the ZRC, we like to take occasional breaks from reviewing Anti-Zombie media. As previously mentioned, we’ve been steady players of the Bioshock series for a few years now (despite the potential Zombie-adjacent nature of some of its ‘Splicer’ adversaries), but the latest full-length game in the series seemed to move firmly away from [...]
John Sears | May 31, 2014
The Wil Wheaton Project, a new variety/entertainment review program on the SyFy Channel, recently debuted and in that debut included its take on what a Zany, 80s-style theme song would be for the grisly and highly offensive TV program ‘The Walking Dead’. The song/video does an admirable job exposing the wanton and casual cruelty of [...]
John Sears | May 24, 2014
Hello Zombie Rights Allies! The semester is over for your ZRC President and it’s time to get back to some serious fighting for Undead Equality. And what do you know, but the Pentagon (yes, THAT Pentagon) is giving us some particular heartburn this week: Washington (CNN) — Never fear the night of the living dead [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2014
Yes, you read that correctly; the makers of foamy toy weapons that have endeared themselves to generations of young people (including myself, at one time) have decided to jump into the lucrative market of catering to those afraid of Zombies. In the process, of course, they help to indoctrinate the next generation against the Undead. [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2014
As the seemingly endless winter here in Madison comes to a close, ever-so-gradually, the ZRC staff are pondering outdoor projects. Gardening. Putting up a bat house (we’re Bat Friendly too!). Going after invasive weeds. Others, it seems, are busy preparing for the end of the world, and at least some internet wags think that might [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2014
The Zombie Rights Campaign will be making our annual pilgrimage back to Southern Indiana this year for a trip to the Dark Carnival Film Festival! Well, not quite; they’ve had an upgrade and a name change. Now it’s the ‘Diabolique’ Film Festival. But we still anticipate a slate of engaging and challenging, occasionally heartwarming (if [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2014
I highlighted this on twitter, but it’s worth repeating just how young some of the Differently Animated exploited by our TV nemeses at The Walking Dead are. That poor little exploited Zombie girl. We hope that, as she ages into an adult Zombie (assuming she does, in fact, age; not all Zombies do) she isn’t [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2014
I have started the second semester of my second year at law school, and am busy learning things to advance the cause of Zombie Rights (I hope). I have taken all my required Constitutional Law classes, which are of obvious import, but everything could have implications for the Differently Animated, at least to my so-far-relatively-inexperienced [...]
John Sears | January 9, 2014
It is a well-known fact among Zombie Rights Activists, though not in the general population, that Zombies of all stripes are generally capable of learning, even if they are (temporarily, we hope) impaired by the death-Undeath transition. It has been a staple of George Romero’s work for decades; John Russo agreed, in Return of the [...]
John Sears | January 9, 2014
A fascinating infographic was forwarded to us recently by ZRC pal and Zombie Friendly Author (or perhaps, with the move into audiobooks, Auteur) Michelle Hartz (PHZ). The economic implications are particularly interesting from the ZRC perspective. If these figures are correct, bashing Zombies is a billion dollar plus annual industry. That is quite the juggernaut [...]