John Sears | October 15, 2011
When I first saw the flyer for Z-Town on State Street, I was concerned, but cautiously optimistic. ‘Sing, Dance, Love, Death, Brains’ as a tagline provides ammunition both for fears of Anti-Zombie stereotyping and for hope that the production would rise above casual pigeonholing of the Differently Animated (ala Romero, Kirkman, Brooks, etc) So which [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Sometimes the worst thing is when someone purports to be on your side all the while snickering and undermining your cause. Case in point, an article that’s being passed around quite a bit to the ZRC from Cracked.com, which is allegedly about helping Zombies survive a Zombie Apocalypse: New and potential zombies are a demographic [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Don’t get me wrong; this is not one of those cases where a developer or publisher just splashes some Anti-Zombie violence into a game or book or show to boost ratings; ‘The Lord of the Rings’ definitely, and prominently, featured Undead antagonists. Sad as that was. It also features some quasi-protagonists in the form of [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Being October now we’re seeing an awful lot of events like this one come up, sadly Anti-Zombie: For the past six months, Metzger has held down her administrative duties at Davis, as well as a part-time job at Naro Expanded Video in Ghent and a demanding gig as a community organizer of sorts. Last year, [...]
John Sears | October 12, 2011
This is just bizarre. Basically, Australia’s had a lot of natural disasters lately. Last year, it seems, a lot of Aussies in turn used social media, Facebook and the like to get updates on public safety related information, rather than legacy media like TV broadcasts and radio. All well and good so far. To facilitate [...]
John Sears | October 12, 2011
Submitted for your bemusement: Zombies Lick My Screen 1.0 – iPhone/iPad app [prMac.com] Montreal, Canada – Hungry zombies want to lick your screen. They’re gross. They’re hungry. And they’ll lick your screen clean to the bone. Tap the screen and one of the four zombies will lick away whatever you have displayed. It’s gross and [...]
John Sears | October 10, 2011
We’ve put something like 50 hours into the super-huge and expansive latest entry in the Fallout franchise over the last few weeks here at the ZRC, and it’s been quite the adventure. A full review will arrive.. eventually. This game is so huge it’s hard to say when that will be! So far, however, despite [...]
John Sears | October 10, 2011
We’ve previously discussed this game, but the fundraiser is running down and yes, it is fully funded, but they’re still promoting new ways to get players involved in Anti-Zombiism: Notable Reward: $20 – You can call up a hotline to have your best zombie impression recorded for in the game. Also a spot in the [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2011
This story is very sad, even if it happened a long time ago: Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths — evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies. … “In this case, the stones in the mouth [...]