John Sears | August 15, 2010
The ZRC’s two full-time staff members are both longtime readers of the newspaper comics/commentary site “The Comics Curmudgeon“, so it is with great sadness that we have found ourselves asking the question posited in today’s blogpost title. Is the primary author of said website a Zombophobe, a hater of all things Undead, an enemy of [...]
John Sears | August 15, 2010
I wrote previously about the announcement that Highschool of the Dead would be coming stateside and the lightning speed with which that announcement came. A free promotional episode has now been posted on Anime News Network’s video viewer, and the ZRC was able to conduct a screening and an in-depth review. I’m actually shocked at [...]
John Sears | August 12, 2010
Anime News Network has a regularly run games column called ‘The X Button’, and recently they got to sit down with Keiji Inafune (famous for his work on Megaman but also a pivotal figure in Dead Rising’s development) along with his Dead Rising 2 colleague and co-producer Shinsaku Ohara about Dead Rising 2′s development. It’s [...]
John Sears | August 12, 2010
Ok, this is way past its expiration date, so to speak. Fallout 3, the long-awaited sequel to the classic Fallout franchise, came out in 2008, and I recently picked up the Game of the Year Edition from Amazon looking for a little respite from Zombie related activities. Something to pick me up after watching and [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2010
You’re reading that correctly; a theatre group in Chicago is staging a Zombie musical. Sadly from the description it appears that this is going to be a retrograde and repressive show pushing all the usual outmoded anti-Zombie stereotypes. You know the ones I mean: Billed as a “Musical Zom-com” (zombie comedy), Musical of the Living [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2010
To whom it may concern: I am writing your company today on behalf of The Zombie Rights Campaign, the world’s premiere Zombie Advocacy organization, about one of the advertisements recently posted on Youtube for the Fiesta (which can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4_F_QNqYc&feature=player_embedded). Specifically the video entitled “Zombie Survival Guide: Starting Your Car”. This advertisement is [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2010
Dead Rising 2 comes out soon, and before the main event they’re trying an interesting promotional concept: a DLC addon prequel to the main game. You know, sort of like how a drug dealer might give you a sample to get you hooked. Naturally the ZRC will have to purchase both; we’re mulling over how [...]
John Sears | August 5, 2010
So a ‘Zombie Portrait Artist’ named Rob Sacchetto has come out with a faux gossip rag reporting on celebrities as if they were Zombies, called ‘Zombiewood Weekly‘ Sadly, instead of a biting commentary on the similarities between the heartless treatment afforded Zombies and the constant harassment of some celebrities by the tabloid press, this seems [...]
John Sears | August 4, 2010
Apparently the American auto giant Ford has decided to turn to the tried-and-true method of spreading hate to spur sales. Admittedly, it’s rare that the big carmakers even acknowledge the existence of Zombies, so this Zombie-bashing ad for the new Fiesta came as a surprise. Essentially, they’re pushing the fact that this particular car has [...]
John Sears | August 2, 2010
Sorry for the scant news on the Lurch auction lately; let’s get up to speed quickly, shall we? The Zombie Rights Campaign solicited donations for a silent auction/fundraiser with proceeds to benefit the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation, to be held at Famous Monsters of Filmland’s Convention in Indianapolis. We got a great response and [...]