John Sears | December 8, 2011
I’m not about to pretend to be a huge expert on Judge Dredd. I’ve read a few comics, and I did see the Stallone movie, which like most moviegoers I’ve largely repressed. There was.. a robot, right? Yeah. Ignorance is bliss here. Well, someone had the bright idea to take Judge Dredd, splash in a [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2011
I mean, it’s not like they’re making an unholy mint with The Walking Dead, right? Apparently not: In Judith’s short life, the street smart punk has already proved to be a survivor, but now she’ll have to fight to remain the last one standing! It’s 1984 – Reaganomics are in full swing, Herbie Hancock ruled [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2011
We’ve talked previously about the Cuban take on ‘Shaun of the Dead’ style Anti-Zombie comedy before here on the ZRC blog. Well, now it’s going global: While no North American distribution has been picked up yet fans of the undead in both Japan and the UK are going to be happy soon as Juan of [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2011
Twitter is an amazing thing. The other day I learned from a random Twitter conversation that a Star Trek series had done a ‘Zombie Vulcan’ episode. Zombies? On generally hyper-tolerant, liberal humanist Star Trek? Could this be a break for our cause? Well, no, as it happens. Instead of providing any interesting depictions of the [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2011
For many people this is a depressing time of year. Me, I’ve always been sort of ambivalent; as a kid I invented my own holiday, the Holy and Lucrative Month of Johnus, to receive presents in the glorious weeks between Christmas and my birthday in late January. Since I celebrate that and not any of [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
Rom-Zom-Com. You’ve seen the cheeky abbreviation, but have you considered the disturbing implications? We’re talking about a genre of fiction that involves romantic bonding over, well, the Apocalypse. Dinner and dancing? Too passe. What the dating scene needs is mass slaughter! Personally I lay this one mostly at the feet of Simon Pegg. Certainly, elements [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
One of our trusted UK informants obtained an interview with two of the apparent leading lights of the Living Supremacist Architecture movement, and the results are a chilling look into the attempted harnessing of consumer culture to prejudice and oppression: So our solution to the idea of a zombie apocalypse is not a ‘one-off’ mobile [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
So I’ve salvaged the ZRC’s computational engine just in the nick of time, and upgraded all our important stuff to being stored safe and sound off-site via the magic of Dropbox. Good thing too, because the tips are coming in fast and furious on Twitter. For example, did you know that Star Trek: Enterprise had [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
A discussion came up on Twitter about the issue of DRM and books after I stated my distaste for the practice. When the art director got home from work we talked about it too, and both concluded that one of the chief evils of DRM on books is that books are meant to be readable, [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
We came, we saw, we did noble battle against the forces of intolerance. Well, *I* did, anyway. Yes, the trip to engage in a heated ideological struggle for the promotion of Undead Equality has been successfully completed, and I am here to tell about it. And brag about it. Really brag about it. As mentioned [...]