John Sears | June 28, 2011
It’s true, apparently Alaska isn’t just the place to set movies based on atrociously murky and confused comics based on vampires* anymore: Shot entirely in Alaska, FROST BITE focuses on a small band of survivors after a zombie outbreak has overrun the world. They hole up in an abandoned grocery store that they dub Frost [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
A controversial Supreme Court ruling was handed down today declaring that a California law restricting the sale of violent videogames to minor was unconstitutional. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down on First Amendment grounds a California law that barred the sale of violent video games to children. The 7-to-2 decision was the [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
Finally, another positive thing to review! I was getting worried: This Ugly Americans shirt features a motivational poster style design seen in Mark Lilly’s office at New York City’s Department of Integration. The word Equality is printed below the image of a zombie and a human shaking hands. The ZRC has heard some good things [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
So there’s some more news about who’ve they’ve picked to help dramatize the Anti-Zombie prejudice and beam it into your living room, and what the second season would be about, by extension: It looks to be that Maggie Greene (Glenn’s future lover, at least in the comic) has been cast to be plays by Lauren [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
The ZRC was alerted to this upcoming book on Twitter this morning and I have to say, it’s both an ingenious and evil concept. First, the Tweet that started it all: We just got the link for our book on Amazon: “Dead Inside: Do Not Enter” http://amzn.to/l5Ok2C coming out 9/21 Preorder Now!!! #MFZAR The book [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
What is it with the stereotype about women in failed relationships going mental, anyway? Is it a misogyny thing? Why don’t men get the same treatment by pop-culture, anyway? Regardless, it’s a trope older than dirt. Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d. More recently, [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
It’s just deplorable how low some cities will sink to try and get a piece of the lucrative Anti-Zombie pie: Atlanta residents may have a reason to use the CDC’s Zombie Preparedness Kit as scores of zombies descended on the Cumberland area today. The zombies were part of the 160-person film crew that was filming [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
I had previously discussed a review on BuyZombie of ‘The Dishonored Dead’ by Robert Swartwood here on the ZRC blog, and the author was kind enough to send us a review copy to peruse. I got a bit sidetracked by Chicago outings/madness, and also wanted to give myself plenty of time to digest the book [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
We’ve had to talk about, and dispel, the notion that any of a variety of extant diseases or infectious agents could suddenly and spontaneously become the fuel for a Zombie Apocalypse before here on the ZRC. Usually it’s some fungus that infects ants and manipulates their behavior, or Toxoplasma, whose effects on human behavior are [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
We’ve talked about this extremely popular ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ phenomenon before here on the ZRC blog; what started out as a sort of ‘fun’ collegiate event has grown into something almost resembling a social movement, all unfortunately dedicated around staging faux Zombie Apocalypse events for ‘fun’. It was only a matter of time, I suppose, [...]