John Sears | July 24, 2011
You’re probably familiar with this more-than-a-pet-peeve of ours by now, but let’s review for the less enlightened just joining us here at The Zombie Rights Campaign: ‘Zombie’ is not a synonym for ‘bad’, ‘wrong’, or ‘thing I just don’t like’. Zombies are a class of people (or, in some cases, other Unliving things) that have [...]
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 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 19, 2011
The supposedly left-leaning UK rag ‘The Guardian’ has been in the ZRC’s sights before, caught touting flagrantly Anti-Zombie viewpoints in the wake of the Leicester affair. Given that, I suppose it was inevitable they would show up and add their two cents to this tragic Bristol City Council story: Local authorities routinely have detailed emergency [...]
John Sears | July 16, 2011
It’s always disturbing to learn that an icon in public life is an Anti-Zombie bigot. I mean, Max Brooks made a name for himself being evil, but undoubtedly some comic book fans were disheartened when Robert Kirkman showed his true colors. Woody Harrelson? I never saw that one coming. But the Cookie Monster, beloved children’s [...]
John Sears | July 5, 2011
I know that it’s one of the most popular shows on television but I really wish that the mainstream media could remember that popularity is based on *hate*. I mean, seriously. Just because it makes money that doesn’t make it right and it shouldn’t make it socially acceptable. TV Guide, for those of you who [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Mega-huge Living Supremacist adaptation of Max Brooks’ infamous ‘World War Z’ hit more snags recently: World War Z, the would-be epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history of a fictitious zombie pandemic and near-apocalypse, spent so many months in development hell that the project seemed doomed, even with the presence of director Marc Forster and [...]
John Sears | June 28, 2011
It’s always sad to learn that an august body harbors hateful prejudice. It might be your local school board, unhappy about allowing a Zombie child to attend, or your local hospital, unwilling to treat the broken arm of a Zombie. Or it might be the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which handed [...]
John Sears | June 28, 2011
Emma Stone played one of the female leads in the notoriously offensive Anti-Zombie film ‘Zombieland’, so she was naturally considered a shoe-in as a candidate to play the lead in ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’, an upcoming film adaptation of the also notorious book. However, Ms. Stone has apparently declined the role: Emma Stone passed [...]
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, [...]