John Sears | January 21, 2011
Seriously, people. Enough. I get it, I really do. You watch TV, go to the movies, browse Barnes and Noble and you think, ‘Zombies are EVERYWHERE these days! I should cash in!” Please don’t. Don’t just toss Zombies, particularly Zombie stereotypes, into your work, thinking that you can cover intellectual and creative bankruptcy with a [...]
John Sears | January 20, 2011
Ever wonder what The Postman would be like with less David Brin (or Kevin Costner) and more Zombies (i.e., any)? Well, wonder no longer, because “The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies” by Kevin Burke mixes post-apocalyptic mail service with Zombie scaremongering: Four-year degree in business. Trained in hand-to-hand combat. Works well with [...]
John Sears | January 12, 2011
It can be hard to evaluate an ongoing work, which is why, for example, I tried to be very careful with our recent review of the first episode of ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’ not to imply an endorsement of the show as a whole simply because of one episode in a series. Likewise, a [...]
John Sears | January 9, 2011
I can’t think of any other plausible reason behind this “Flight of the Living Dead” comic, which pushes the idea that good, peaceful, respectable Living people can’t be forced into close proximity with Zombies for fear they’ll be attacked and converted. Doesn’t this remind anyone else of the controversy over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and [...]
John Sears | January 8, 2011
Alert cultural historian and ZRC Stringer Andrew Leal pointed the ZRC toward a couple of recent newspaper comics that featured Zombie snowmen… in a very negative light. Now, I know what many of you are thinking: “Newspapers still have comics?” Astonishingly enough, they do! What’s more, they almost all pick the comics to grace their [...]
John Sears | January 7, 2011
Truly we’re reaching a point where absolutely anything is a target for the X + Zombies creative approach. Now it’s apparently Jurassic Park’s turn: I love AMC’s gritty TV-adaptation of The Walking Dead, and the only way it could be better would be if they added zombie dinosaurs. That isn’t going to happen, but, fortunately [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net I’ll admit to being amused quite a bit by this particular comic, and additionally pleased to see more sequential artists dealing with the controversial issue of Zombie-Living person romance. (The topic is also touched upon in Dead Eyes Open, a recent ZRC favorite) The Zombie character isn’t the most appealing [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
The ZRC had a brief but productive dialogue with author Jonathan Maberry back in October of 2009 on the topic of Zombie portrayals and the Zombie Apocalypse… or so we thought. His latest book about Zombies, Rot and Ruin, is out now and on the ZRC’s review pile, but I’m not here to talk about [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
This story is baffling on a number of levels. Marvel, who we’ve had a few friendly jousts with in the pasts here at the ZRC, has decided to capitalize on the current Zombie-hating mania with yet another of those ‘Insert Zombies into Public Domain Work Here’ titles, this time utilizing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol [...]
John Sears | December 17, 2010
Popular webcomic and apparently Zombophobe site Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal recently posted a comic (or series of charts, depending on your definition of ‘comic’) simplifying the ‘Zombie Movie’ genre into chart form while glibly passing on the usual stereotypes about the Differently Animated. You know the ones I mean. “Zombies eat brains. Zombies are a [...]