John Sears | December 15, 2010
Have you ever stopped to think about the *politics* of Zombies? We all know about the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario, as presented by Mr. Romero, Mr. Russo and so forth. Max Brooks has made a good living positing strategies for surviving such a grim and contrived situation, and even now his fictional triumph of the Living [...]
John Sears | December 8, 2010
The Littlest Zombie (last reviewed here by the ZRC) has at long last gotten a second full issue of his, err, misadventures. By misadventures, I mean a bizarre mixture of savage Romero-Russo stereotyped violence and adorable antics, but if you’ve been following these reviews to date, you probably already got that. Issue 2 of The [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
This is another comic we spotted at The Vintage Phoenix in Bloomington, actually, and purely by chance lying on their sort of last chance table. Needless to say, I had to snatch it up after noting that it features another story of The Littlest Zombie, whose unfortunately anti-social antics we last reviewed here. A Very [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
While we were in Bloomington, Indiana for The Dark Carnival Film Festival, the art director and I stopped at landmark Bloomington comic book store The Vintage Phoenix for a bit of window shopping, as we usually do when we’re in the neighborhood. (It really is a fantastic old-school comic book store with an extensive indie [...]
John Sears | October 27, 2010
The comic book world has had to deal with Rob Liefeld for a long time; the ZRC more recently when he did some of the art for Prelude to Deadpool Corps, and then picked up regular art duties on the main series that followed. (A review of Prelude is forthcoming, but first we’re retooling our [...]
John Sears | October 26, 2010
It’s bad enough that Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead series has proliferated into television, but now they’re undermining legitimate Zombie protest marches with their own crude imitations, all in the name of promoting their violent, Living Supremacist propaganda: In anticipation of the premiere of AMC’s new series The Walking Dead on Sun., Oct. 31 at 10/9c, [...]
John Sears | October 19, 2010
This comic from VG Cats sums up one of the biggest problems we here at the ZRC had with the Dead Rising Case Zero prequel: it just doesn’t work from a dramatic perspective. You’re ostensibly playing as a loving father trying to keep his daughter alive, and yet the game also pushes you to conduct [...]
John Sears | October 19, 2010
These two reviews are a long time coming, and they finish out our reviews for two formerly ongoing Zombie comics series. Let’s get to it. In Marvel Zombies 5 #5, we again return to our dimension-hopping gang as they enter what is the strangest dimension yet: one without any superpowered beings of any kind. So, [...]
John Sears | October 12, 2010
It must be hard to be Robert Kirkman, celebrated Zombie hater and comic auteur. I mean, sure, you have a enormously successful series of comics denigrating the Differently Animated, and your tv show based on said comics is almost sure to be a smash hit, bringing the gruesome anti-Zombie violence to the small(er) screen in [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2010
I always feel good when the ZRC can engage in frank and productive discussion with a prominent media figure over the issue of Zombie Rights, and so I was delighted to see that our open letter to Stephen Notley got a response from the man himself; after some careful thought I have posted my own [...]