John Sears | September 14, 2011
Even for fans of this evil, Zombie-hating show, developments like this cannot be comfortable, to say the least: Last weekend, the cast of The Walking Dead took the stage at Dragon*Con and fielded questions from the audience — with one big restriction. Dragon*Con attendees were told eight times not to ask about former showrunner Frank [...]
John Sears | August 27, 2011
Another startlingly unsympathetic-to-Zombies interview with a major player in ‘The Walking Dead’ tv series is out now. A small and distasteful sample: Q: Have you created any signature zombies for Season 2 akin to Bicycle Girl? A: If I tell you about it, it gives the gag away! But I will say one of the [...]
John Sears | August 19, 2011
‘The Walking Dead’ is doing a bang-up job of making people afraid of Zombies. Somewhere along the way, they seem to have decided that was not sufficient, and that they should terrify people about other harmless and natural elements of society. It seems for Season 2 they’ve settled on farms: David Boyd, The Walking Dead’s [...]
John Sears | August 18, 2011
Well, as if we hadn’t already sussed out the band Anthrax’s vicious Anti-Zombie prejudice, there’s this news item to prove it: Metal band Anthrax is set to release their new album ‘Worship Music’ on September 13th. The first single from the record is called ‘Fight em Till You Can’t’ and was written about battling a [...]
John Sears | August 14, 2011
Well, it seems that Robert Kirkman’s shadowy web of evil continues to expand: Robert Kirkman’s first in a three book series with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press will hit shelves nationwide October 11th and is now available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book, which Kirkman co-authored with horror genre vet Jay [...]
John Sears | August 1, 2011
So I guess there’s considerable trouble in Anti-Zombie paradise, also known as the production of ‘The Walking Dead’: The Good: Greg Nicotero Will Give Us Webisodes! … The Bad: Frank Darabont Has Left The Walking Dead … The Neutral: Glen Mazzara To Be The Walking Dead Showrunner Basically there seems to be a huge shakeup [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2011
A spinoff book. A set of ridiculously creepy busts. An Anti-Zombie board game. Yes, ‘The Walking Dead’ is descending on Comic-Con like a plague of ravenous locusts, determined to destroy all compassion toward the Differently Animated as well as, perhaps, all of Western Civilization. They’re ambitious that way. AMC is helpfully even providing you with [...]
John Sears | July 22, 2011
Yes, that’s right; a tv series itself based on a long-running comic is getting its own, separate book publishing arrangement. Thankfully, perhaps, for the state of literature itself, these are neither the sort of genre pulp churned out to complement certain videogame/film franchises nor are they novelizations of the show, but rather they appear to [...]
John Sears | July 22, 2011
Well, more details are now available on the no-doubt-soon-to-be-infamous ‘Walking Dead’ board game, personally approved by ZRC Nemesis Robert Kirkman himself, and it’s not good: Featuring original art by Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, the game allows you to play as either Rick, Tyreese, Glenn, Shane, Dale or Andrea as you attempt to be the [...]
John Sears | July 21, 2011
You know, there are few depths to which I’m surprised to see Living Supremacists stoop these days, but something about this promo video for ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 2 and the cast appearance at Comic-Con still managed to offend me: Is it just me, or is there a serious subtext in this video of mocking [...]