John Sears | January 4, 2011
This article from The Observer chronicles the quest by two French photojournalists to explore a real post-apocalyptic landscape in this era where we as a society constantly dramatize the fake apocalypses and blame them on Zombies. Of course, here the ruin of an entire city and way of life was not caused by the Differently [...]
John Sears | January 3, 2011
A hilariously tongue-in-cheek sendup of your various survivalist guides for the mythical ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ was published recently by The Weekly World News, no doubt in an attempt to correct the record and help in the battle against the vicious and of course internally inconsistent and contradictory stereotypes against the Differently Animated: Worried about Zombies coming [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2010
Fangoria recently posted a fairly extensive review of a new Anti-Zombie book that, quite frankly, we hadn’t heard of here at the ZRC just yet called ‘No Flesh May Be Spared’. Said book apparently depicts a cruel world where Zombies are used as fodder for gladiatorial contests hearkening in style to the current ultimate fighting [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2010
I know, I know; another day, another questionable use of the term ‘Zombie’: A geostationary satellite that become a “zombie” earlier this year and stopped communicating with ground controllers has now finally been reset and is under control. The Galaxy 15 communications satellite had its “brains fried” by a solar flare and went rogue in [...]
John Sears | December 28, 2010
I mean, just look at the title: “You Might Be A Zombie and Other Bad News” How exactly is that ‘bad news’, Cracked.com? For the blanket assumption that being a Zombie is somehow automatically ‘bad’ news alone, I think we can most likely peg this one as Anti-Zombie. When you read the description, though, it [...]
John Sears | December 27, 2010
Google pointed me to this interview in the Fall River, MA Herald News with author and zombie film critic (as opposed to Zombie film critic, a Zombie who reviews movies) Tony Schaab: What do a devout family man, Humane Society volunteer, DJ, actor, comedian, troupe manager of the comedy improvisational troupe IndyProv, college enrollment coordinator, [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
I really don’t know why so many people are framing the recent popularity of Zombies at Christmastime in this ‘us vs. them’ mentality: It used to be that zombies were strictly limited to Halloween. Not anymore. Everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls are making a move to take over Christmas, and they’ve got Santa and his reindeer [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
I was shocked to see this extremely offensive video being promoted so close to the holidays (as if Zombies aren’t already persecuted and excluded from seasonal festivities enough), but not all that shocked that it was Cory Doctorow doing the promotion: Worried about juggling your Christmas baking, gift-giving and party-going with the possible zombie apocalypse? [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
The ZRC had a brief but productive dialogue with author Jonathan Maberry back in October of 2009 on the topic of Zombie portrayals and the Zombie Apocalypse… or so we thought. His latest book about Zombies, Rot and Ruin, is out now and on the ZRC’s review pile, but I’m not here to talk about [...]
John Sears | December 21, 2010
Well, not quite. If you read the article, what they’re really talking about, yet again, isn’t Zombies, or a religious component to Zombiism, or even the spiritual beliefs or lack thereof of the Zombie Community. Rather, here again, it’s Zombies as a symbol. In this case, a symbol of spiritual emptiness: Murphy, the author of [...]