John Sears | December 7, 2011
Twitter is an amazing thing. The other day I learned from a random Twitter conversation that a Star Trek series had done a ‘Zombie Vulcan’ episode. Zombies? On generally hyper-tolerant, liberal humanist Star Trek? Could this be a break for our cause? Well, no, as it happens. Instead of providing any interesting depictions of the [...]
John Sears | November 1, 2011
Good news: Zombie Friendly anime series ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’/’Is This a Zombie’ has another season coming: The Japanese publishing conglomerate Kadokawa announced on Monday that the 10th volume of Shinichi Kimura’s original Kore wa Zombie desu ka? (Is This a Zombie?) light novel series will bundle its second original anime DVD in a [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
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 | September 12, 2011
(our booth over the weekend, exhibiting a slideshow of past activism) Sorry about getting this post up so late; we were beat and unpacking and all that today. Somehow despite being in town the convention was pretty exhausting! We had three long but festive days of outreach. The ZRC spent Saturday and Sunday all day [...]
John Sears | September 5, 2011
Confession time: We don’t have cable here at the ZRC. I pathologically hate commercials, and between Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, Crunchyroll and many others, there’s very rarely any need to sit through one. DVDs come out faster and faster, almost on top of a television show, many are sold on iTunes as they air, and if [...]
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 6, 2011
No, this isn’t one of those obnoxious ‘vs’ competitions where Zombies are forced to fight some fictional villains for sport, but rather, a comparison of the treatment of two sets of ‘villains’ by the public. Zombies, as we’ve documented, get demagogued and fearmongered against by libraries, directing this miseducation even at vulnerable children and impressionable [...]