John Sears | September 3, 2011
Notice: The following post contains details from Max Brooks’ hyperviolent, amoral and sadistic Living Supremacist Magnum Opus ‘World War Z’ to help illustrate the incredible impropriety of using it as the base of a year of introductory academic instruction. Proceed with caution. I’m shocked and appalled by this outrageous misuse and abuse of developing young [...]
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Tags: Academia, Books, Max Brooks is a Jerk, Social Justice
John Sears | September 3, 2011
More details are emerging on the bizarre and obviously unhinged new Suda 51 game ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’, with details hearkening back to some unusual ideas of Zombiism, a recent Zombie Friendly anime series, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and chainsaw obsessions: Scott Warr, producer on Lollipop Chainsaw at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, provided a behind-closed-doors sneak peak [...]
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Tags: Movies, Social Justice, Videogames, What's Up with Japan?
John Sears | September 2, 2011
Sometimes a single article ties into so many things we work on here at the ZRC at once it’s hard to parse, and so it was with this piece from The Inkwell about a new Anti-Zombie first novel and the process of independent publication in the age of Kindle: Run for your life! The zombie [...]
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Tags: Books, Don't Use the Zed Word, Social Justice
John Sears | September 1, 2011
There has been a veritable gold rush into Zombie film lately, and lots of big names have been signing up. Indie zombie movies are attracting top talent these days; Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench will appear in ‘The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet’ for example, while Jeff Bridges will star in ‘R.I.P.D.’ and [...]
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John Sears | September 1, 2011
One of the big gripes of the Anti-Zombie fanboys who love their ‘Dead Rising 2′ is that, inexplicably for a sandbox game, Capcom never provided them with a true sandbox mode, where they could soak their murderous hands in virtual Zombie blood without a pesky story, or objectives, or any sort of structure forcing them [...]
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Tags: Journamalism, Social Justice, Videogames