Posted By John Sears on May 29, 2012

I don’t know whether to be comforted or saddened that Zombies have company in the Unjust and Probably Unsafe Road Sign defacement department:

A motorway sign warning of a possible Dalek sized obstruction! Pathetic!

…

What?

The sign, located at on eastbound Arapahoe before 48th Street, was in fact a prank. With the Colorado Department of Transportation having already changed to sign to warn motorists of a non-interstellar delay ahead?

Oh.

I should probably have learnt my lesson after that whole ‘Zombies ahead’ sign fiasco last year. So many graveyards unnecessarily purged with fire.

Mmm.

Yes. Ahem. Don’t ‘purge’ graveyards with fire, whether to target Zombies or otherwise. It’s rude, America.

It’s just rude.

And this guilt by association thing with Daleks is rude too! Zombies don’t try to destroy the entire universe with a bomb that, say, negates the existence of electromagnetism.

Nope. Not Zombies. Daleks do, though.

Keep that in mind. Zombies are your friends.

Daleks? Not so much…

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Tags: Anti-Zombie Public Event

Posted By John Sears on May 28, 2012

Seriously, this is as much Odd as it is Anti-Zombie:

Night of the Living Doughnuts!

Mr. Jimmies was a mild mannered doughnut, just doing his regular shift at the greasy spoon diner. One fateful night a police officer staggers in… green, incoherent, mumbling. Before Jimmies could get out a concerned “May I help you Sir!?” … the officer chomped!

Reeling back, bloodied and in shock, Jimmies realized his fate was sealed. The officer was one of the newly turned “undead”….

Jimmies the Zombie Doughnut.

No, really:

Honestly, I have to admire the dedication to the concept here. To sit down and hand paint all the tiny sprinkles on a Zombie Doughnut, yeah. At some point you have to wonder if the artist, a Mr. John Sumrow, had his doubts, wondered to himself, ‘How can pastry be alive? How can it die? Undie? Why was a doughnut working in a diner anyway? Wouldn’t the doughnut have served other pastries? Seemingly (since his customers were also doughnuts) To other pastries? Is that cannibalism? What sort of horrible dystopia full of cannibal doughnuts have I created?’

Maybe that’s just me. *shrug*

Thanks to BuyZombie for this one.

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Posted By John Sears on May 28, 2012

Lots of mundane Non-Zombie Rights work afoot around here lately, but I did make an Ominous Circle of Stones, which might come in handy for some Necromancy later:

Ok, it’s not so ominous looking in the dappled light of late afternoon.

But around midnight? That’s pretty mystical looking. I need to see if Baron Mardi wants to raise some Undead clients for us.

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Posted By John Sears on May 23, 2012

A few things have come up and some of us at the ZRC Compound are a bit under the weather so we’ll be back this weekend or early next week with regular blogging and new and exciting ideas for Zombie Rights advocacy.

A promise, from us to you, and the Zombies of course.

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Posted By John Sears on May 21, 2012

We’d be remiss if the ZRC did not point out that the latest print volume of Skin Horse, which the ZRC both loves and has endorsed heavily in the past for its progressive, Zombie Friendly views, is currently the subject of a Kickstarter drive:

U.N.I.T.Y. of Skin-Horse was, in fact, our Zombie of the Year in 2009, and Skin Horse has continued to exhibit the very best in positive, nuanced and Zombie Friendly entertainment since then. You would be well-served to donate large amounts of money to this Kickstarter drive! Speaking from personal experience I can tell you the finished books are very nice, and it’s so rare that we get a chance to hold Zombie Friendly print media in our hands.

It helps to keep the evil Walking Dead stuff from taking over the ZRC library.

So give generously and give often, Zombie Rights fans!

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Tags: Comics, Social Justice, Zombie of the Year 2009

Posted By John Sears on May 19, 2012

The Zombie Rights Campaign took Mike Hall to task for his distasteful ‘Library of the Living Dead’, and, in the process, hopefully brought to the artist’s attention the serious and committed Zombie Rights Movement here in America.

It seems like the message may have paid off, as Mr. Hall has now moved away, thankfully, from the overt Anti-Zombie propaganda of yesteryear into comics that sound far less offensive to Zombies.

We’re always happy to see someone reform and mend their Anti-Zombie ways; I myself once, sadly, did not see eye-to-eye with the Differently Animated, having grown up on a diet of Zombie fearmongering ‘entertainment’. People *can* change, and fomenting that change is a big part of what the ZRC is about.

Congratulations (we think/hope) to Mr. Hall for making such progress.

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Posted By John Sears on May 19, 2012

We had a very good-and-mind-opening time at ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ last year, and a second annual installment of the Elgin, IL Halloween event has just been announced.

The ZRC is almost sure to attend.

However, I can’t say we’re entirely happy with the promotional material so far:

We’re going to be EXCEPTIONALLY charitable here and assume that this is one of those ‘Run, don’t walk!’ kind of ad campaigns.

As in: Nightmare on Chicago Street is Zombie Friendly, so RUN, don’t WALK, to attend.

Or something.

At any rate we’ll keep an eye on things for you and let you know how it fares in terms of Zombie Friendliness. The ZRC plans to attend this year and monitor the entire event for Zombie Friendliness and Undead Integration.

Because we care.

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Posted By John Sears on May 18, 2012

Upcoming and clearly Living Supremacist game ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ (out June 12th in America) is just TRYING to antagonize the Zombie Rights movement even further with their gross (and grossly offensive) internet campaign, I swear:

A special laundry detergent to remove evidence of your gruesome massacres? Wow, that sounds like something a non-sociopathic individual would want to own!

I think I’m going to stock up on liquor before June 12th. Going to need it.

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Tags: Videogames, Youtube Mischief

Posted By John Sears on May 17, 2012

Who hates Zombies most in the world? That’s a good question, certainly. Some might say George Romero, but Mr. Romero would disagree; he usually says he’s on the Zombie side in his films, and he *did* make Creepshow, with Zombies of Justice.

Others might say Max Brooks, and it’s obviously true that Mr. Brooks is scared half out of his gourd by the Differently Animated.

I tend to think the best candidate, however, is ‘The Walking Dead’ creator Robert Kirkman, who is always jumping into new, groundbreaking, monstrously offensive side projects to defame Zombies.

Gleefully.

So I wasn’t completely surprised to see that he’s getting into the rapidly growing Zombie Apocalypse simulation racket:

The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego is a new obstacle course at Petco Park that will run during this year’s Comic-Con, in conjunction with the release of issue #100 of the Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead comic series.

“Our fans have been reading about it, watching it, and now they get to live it with The Walking Dead: Escape,” series creator Robert Kirkman said in a statement. “We are literally transforming Petco Park into the early days of society’s collapse and San Diego is just the first city to fall.”

Come on, Mr. Kirkman. With every major wave of immigration there’s been *some*, frankly, hateful and often unhinged voice yelling at the top of their lungs that the End is Nigh.

Sometimes it’s not even immigration per se, but a cultural product. Music, videogames.. comic books.

Thus today’s boogeyman status has sadly fallen upon the Zombie Community, and the leader of these modern day, Undead hating Know Nothings is, apparently, Robert Kirkman.

History will not be kind, Mr. Kirkman.

Still, for 70 bucks a pop, you TOO can be on the wrong side of history at Comic Con. I trust none of our readers will make that error.

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Tags: Anti-Zombie Public Event, Comics, Robert Kirkman

Posted By John Sears on May 16, 2012

I wish I didn’t have to report on yet ANOTHER governmental body taking it upon itself to publicly declare hatred of Zombies, but.. I do.

If you’re in Canada this summer, and you don’t want to die, then listen up. If you’re ready for a zombie attack, then you’re ready for just about anything.

That’s the message British Columbia is sending its citizens and tourists in a website it launched this week, which provides tips on about how to prepare for a fake zombie apocalypse.

Yes, really. The BC government, through one of its many apparently insidious tentacles, has decided to use the hateful stereotyping about the risk of ‘Zombie attack’ to promote public safety.

Which isn’t even original hatred; see the CDC’s similar campaign.

And just look at the material they’re putting out on the web for anyone, even impressionable Zombie Canadian children, to see:

Guest Blog

Day One: Outbreak
Day Two: What’s For Dinner? Hopefully Not My Brain
Day Three: Close Encounter

Really, Canada? The Brain-eating thing?

This from a country that puts gravy on french fries?

The ZRC calls on any and all Zombie Allies in British Columbia to call, write, email or otherwise pester (legally and peacefully) their elected representatives to put a stop to this degrading Anti-Zombie behavior.

For shame. For shame.

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