John Sears | November 11, 2011
Really, it’s just tragic to see universities indulge this hateful and increasingly paranoid man in his fantasies and violent delusions about the peaceful Differently Animated: “If you don’t know how to survive a zombie attack, chances are you will when I get done talking,” said Max Brooks, author of New York Times best-sellers, “The Zombie [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2011
Very sad news indeed: Max Brooks’s zombie novel World War Z has surpassed the million copies sold mark. The book, which was publishing by Random House’s Crown imprint in hardcover in September 2006, has sold over 1 million copies in all formats combined: hardcover, paperback and digital. Apparently his previous work of Living Supremacism, ‘The [...]
John Sears | November 4, 2011
From Merriam-Webster: scha·den·freu·de noun, often capitalized \ˈshä-dən-ˌfrȯi-də\ Definition of SCHADENFREUDE : enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others Example: The film version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies really just cannot catch a break. From having countless director and lead actress woes since it was first announced that it was going to be getting the [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
Background: Noted author Neil Gaiman hatched a sort of pro-literacy/pro-literature movement for Halloween which has come to be known as ‘All Hallow’s Read’. Put simply: you should, asserts Gaiman, give scary books out for Halloween alongside candy, which as he notes, is also very important. All well and good. But why does the promotional video [...]
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 | September 24, 2011
This article is all well and good but doesn’t really give us the details we need to determine definitively if this new Zombie novel is friendly to the Differently Animated (though it hints that no, it isn’t): Happy Place is a “brainless” read, according to Al Leduc. The author said he would be hard-pressed to [...]
John Sears | September 21, 2011
When you hear things like ‘the spirit of the Book’ you should know by now that the final product will bear extremely little similarity to the literary work that you loved (or in our case, hated): Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog You had to guess he’d say things like that. The book doesn’t have [...]
John Sears | September 3, 2011
Notice: The following post contains details from Max Brooks’ hyperviolent, amoral and sadistic Living Supremacist Magnum Opus ‘World War Z’ to help illustrate the incredible impropriety of using it as the base of a year of introductory academic instruction. Proceed with caution. I’m shocked and appalled by this outrageous misuse and abuse of developing young [...]
John Sears | September 2, 2011
Sometimes a single article ties into so many things we work on here at the ZRC at once it’s hard to parse, and so it was with this piece from The Inkwell about a new Anti-Zombie first novel and the process of independent publication in the age of Kindle: Run for your life! The zombie [...]
John Sears | September 1, 2011
There has been a veritable gold rush into Zombie film lately, and lots of big names have been signing up. Indie zombie movies are attracting top talent these days; Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench will appear in ‘The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet’ for example, while Jeff Bridges will star in ‘R.I.P.D.’ and [...]