John Sears | July 20, 2011
Uggghh. This story makes me vaguely nauseous: Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment imprint has joined forces with legendary make-up effects wizard Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Grindhouse) to produce a line of products based on Kirkman’s long-running undead comic and other Skybound titles. … The first fruit of that collaboration is the Nicotero-designed, [...]
John Sears | July 20, 2011
You’ve probably heard of the Trekkie/Anti-Zombie crossover, ‘Night of the Living Trekkies’, by now. You may be aware that there’s a Star Wars Anti-Zombie book as well, ‘Death Troopers’. Given the presence of such high-profile genre staples getting down in the gutter, you might assume that nerds had enough to read and could leave Zombies [...]
John Sears | July 20, 2011
We talked with some concern here on the ZRC blog about how Square Enix had picked up distribution duties on the odious Living Supremacist game ‘Dead Island’ to help ensure it receives wider release here in the US. Well, their commitment to hating the Differently Animated doesn’t just extend to shuffling plastic around, as it [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
I have fond memories of my four years at Indiana University. Well, four years in school for me, then living on campus for a while with the art director, but you get the idea. Indiana University has a fairly prominent student paper, the Indiana Daily Student. As the title suggests, it is written and published [...]
John Sears | July 2, 2011
Seriously, I mean, ok, ‘The Mist’ was a bit underwhelming and ‘The Green Mile’ had Tom Hanks, who is kind of my nemesis, but I will always treasure Shawshank (who doesn’t?), so even knowing Frank Darabont was involved with ‘The Walking Dead’ hurt, it really did. Still, his continued involvement mystifies and offends me in [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
So there’s some more news about who’ve they’ve picked to help dramatize the Anti-Zombie prejudice and beam it into your living room, and what the second season would be about, by extension: It looks to be that Maggie Greene (Glenn’s future lover, at least in the comic) has been cast to be plays by Lauren [...]
John Sears | June 23, 2011
Think I’m editorializing too much? Perhaps, but it’s hard to keep my temper when I read a man so steeped in Anti-Zombiism touting his achievements in defaming the Differently Animated: Q: What are you expecting from the first few weeks? A: It’s a funny question: I really don’t know exactly what they’re going to be [...]
John Sears | June 23, 2011
I was not a fan of ‘30 Days of Night‘ as a graphic novel. The story lurches around, especially toward the end, and Ben Templesmith‘s artwork should be the new dictionary definition for ‘murky’. Plus, it’s really unkind toward our allies in the larger Undead Solidarity movement, the Vampire community. We’re not talking ‘Twilight’ bad, [...]
John Sears | May 24, 2011
I like this comic a lot… but the text quoted afterward, even intended in jest as I think it was, is a bit disturbing: Oh No! Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 :: 1:15 am They then proceeded to eat his brain in an ugly, scary fashion. Is that a comment on the unfortunate violence that can [...]
John Sears | May 24, 2011
We’ve talked a bit about the nexus of Zombies and religion here on the ZRC blog before; it’s hardly our forte, but the fairly obvious significance of the fact that Jesus (in the Christian religion) not just came back from the dead himself but raised one of the first Zombies described in Western literature is [...]