We’ve had more than a couple bones to pick with the io9 website here in the past at the ZRC, as they grossly misinform about the history of Anti-Zombie prejudice, compare Zombies to cancer, promote already-prominent Anti-Zombie filmmakers and so forth.

Nevertheless it’s worth noting that they continue to this day in their quest to defame the Differently Animated at every turn:

You may recognize artist Keith Thompson’s work from Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan books and as those creepy doodles from the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. In addition to those projects, Thompson’s crafted a nightmare fuel gallery of necrotic creatures with pedigrees in both science fiction and fantasy. Just behold that stomach-churning Pripyat Beast above. We’re sorry.

Actually, we find some of these ‘necrotic creatures’ quite adorable, and admire the efforts of others to integrate into a Living-centric society. Note how io9 tries to prevent its readers from feeling similar sympathy with their inflammatory language. ‘stomach-churning’? ‘nightmare fuel’?

I suppose tolerance, equality and understanding really is a nightmare for the, ahem, writers and journalists at io9.

Pity that they insist on living with so much fear and hate for the Undead.

Update: corrected some verb-tense disagreements that I missed due to simmering outrage.

Tags: Journamalism, Mainstream Media, Zombie Art

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