John Sears | March 11, 2011
I guess the people at Telltale Games know their target audience pretty well, having released scant details on the upcoming Walking Dead series of episode games save that they will be graphically violent: “It’s very early on in the process, but I’m looking at story points and I think they’re going to make some announcements [...]
John Sears | March 3, 2011
Namely, is the pickle, in fact, a Zombie Cucumber? Inquiring minds want to know. The ‘Kawaii Not’ take puts a humorous spin on the ‘horror’ of Zombiedom as well as the notion of labeling just about anything a ‘Zombie’ these days: Mmmm… undead dill deliciousness. Taste the horror! I mean, let’s face it. Cucumbers are [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
I was alerted to today’s ‘Get Fuzzy’ comic strip by ZRC Cultural Historian Andrew Leal, who keeps up with the newspaper comics industry for us. I’ve taken the liberty of posting the comic below, so you can read it before the ZRC take: Two things about this strip interest me from a ZRC perspective. First, [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
This announcement was inevitable but it’s still a sad one that we have to bring you, the loyal Zombie Friendly readers of the ZRC Blog: Yes, there will be a ‘Walking Dead’ videogame: Can’t get enough heart-wrenching, emotion inducing zombie based games? Of course you can’t. No one can. So, you’ll be pleased to hear [...]
John Sears | February 16, 2011
Missed this one during our Valentine’s Day rundown, but one of the ZRC’s favorite comics, whose nameless and charismatic Zombie character was a nominee for 2010 Zombie of the Year, has put out a set of Zombie Friendly valentines graphics for you to enjoy over the next year. It’s so nice when we can *all* [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2011
Jenny the ZRC Art and Technical Director has a way of finding internet oddities, and so she pointed me to this website hosting one very old (and very, very Stupid) comic from Captain America’s days as a World War II propagandist/Timely Comics superhero. In this story, ‘The Case of the Hollow Men’, Cap finds himself [...]
John Sears | February 4, 2011
This post is to try and get a lot of the stuff that’s been buzzing around my head in the context of the Dickwolves discussion down onto the blog so I can get back to our core mission of Zombie Rights agitation. 1) On ‘Trigger Warnings’ Having never heard of the term before the discussion [...]
John Sears | February 2, 2011
Image Comics has decided that they really need more Anti-Zombie properties than their flagship ‘The Walking Dead’, and so are preparing an entire stable of Anti-Zombie properties centered around an alternate Vietnam war which changes dramatically with the appearance of the Differently Animated: Imagine yourself a young adult in the late 60s. War is raging [...]
John Sears | January 30, 2011
Recently, popular webcomic ‘Penny-Arcade’ pulled a line of merchandise from their stores centered around fictional creatures called ‘Dickwolves’ whose only known attributes were that they were a: wolves and b: raped people. The Dickwolves originated from a comic satirizing the casual way that certain videogame genres interpret moral choices within their universes; ie, a character [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
I found this Hollywood Reporter piece on Gale Anne Hurd and her thoughts about The Walking Dead fascinating, in a grimly offensive sort of way. Producer Gale Anne Hurd, who is billed here at NATPE as the queen of sci-fi, thinks zombies are just what’s needed to offset today’s real-life anxieties. “Given the fears in [...]