John Sears | January 4, 2011
Holy Taco brings us this selection of photos of various Zombie girls/women, though I suspect some of them are Living people in disguise (not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that), which makes us here at the ZRC ponder the issue of Zombie Exploitation just a bit. I can’t say I care for the editorial [...]
John Sears | January 3, 2011
Apparently there’s a new plugin for Firefox/Thunderbird to help solve the pesky problem of typing odd characters not found in your native language’s character set: Have you ever been in a situation where you had to write a special character that does not exist in your native language? Maybe it was an ü and you [...]
John Sears | January 3, 2011
A hilariously tongue-in-cheek sendup of your various survivalist guides for the mythical ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ was published recently by The Weekly World News, no doubt in an attempt to correct the record and help in the battle against the vicious and of course internally inconsistent and contradictory stereotypes against the Differently Animated: Worried about Zombies coming [...]
John Sears | January 2, 2011
Oh, we see how it is, Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost, and the blatant double standard is NOT appreciated: Reuniting once more, Pegg and Frost play two sci-fi/comic nerds on their way to Area 51 where they hope their adventure will turn up some evidence of alien life. Unfortunately for them, it does and it’s [...]
John Sears | January 2, 2011
This review from Wired of a new card game featuring Zombies makes it sound quite interesting: Overview: Zombie Ninja Pirates is a bizarre little card game in which you try to become zombies, ninjas, pirates and mad scientists while collecting objects that will award you points. It’s published by Gozer Games, a small game company [...]
John Sears | January 2, 2011
At least, that seems to be the theme of new book ‘Married with Zombies’ by Jesse Petersen: Sarah and David have hit a rut. They fight all the time; neither enjoys the other’s company; and the most trivial of issues sets their teeth to grinding. After six tortuous months of couples’ counseling, the pair has [...]
John Sears | January 1, 2011
I don’t know why the gore-mongers at Valve can’t just leave bad-enough alone with their fantastically successful and top-selling Anti-Zombie game series Left 4 Dead. Cleverly and deviously, they keep interest in their flagship hyper-violent co-operative experiment in Living Supremacy alive by providing updates and new gameplay modes to add to the circus of online [...]
John Sears | January 1, 2011
DVDTown.com has a run-down of all the titles slated for release in 2011 from various categories. It might not surprise you to learn that 2011 is going to be a very big year for movies about, and sadly often exploitative of, Zombies: Right now, there are at least eight zombie movies slated for release sometime [...]