John Sears | December 7, 2011
I mean, it’s not like they’re making an unholy mint with The Walking Dead, right? Apparently not: In Judith’s short life, the street smart punk has already proved to be a survivor, but now she’ll have to fight to remain the last one standing! It’s 1984 – Reaganomics are in full swing, Herbie Hancock ruled [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2011
For many people this is a depressing time of year. Me, I’ve always been sort of ambivalent; as a kid I invented my own holiday, the Holy and Lucrative Month of Johnus, to receive presents in the glorious weeks between Christmas and my birthday in late January. Since I celebrate that and not any of [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
One of our trusted UK informants obtained an interview with two of the apparent leading lights of the Living Supremacist Architecture movement, and the results are a chilling look into the attempted harnessing of consumer culture to prejudice and oppression: So our solution to the idea of a zombie apocalypse is not a ‘one-off’ mobile [...]
John Sears | November 20, 2011
We’ve seen custom knives and firearms, and even targets in the shape of the Differently Animated. But now you can get actual custom firearms rounds supposedly geared toward harming the Undead: It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? Hornady Manufacturing, a major supplier of ammunition, has come out with a new product called [...]
John Sears | November 20, 2011
What do you get when you cross Anti-Zombie Comics and the Middle Ages? You know, besides Army of Darkness and one issue of Marvel Zombies 5? Well, apparently you get ‘Knights of the Living Dead’: Now he’s teamed with writer Ron Wolfe for Knights of the Living Dead, a story that brings zombies to Camelot. [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2011
Very sad news indeed: Max Brooks’s zombie novel World War Z has surpassed the million copies sold mark. The book, which was publishing by Random House’s Crown imprint in hardcover in September 2006, has sold over 1 million copies in all formats combined: hardcover, paperback and digital. Apparently his previous work of Living Supremacism, ‘The [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
In our last update I talked about the quite frankly spectacular show put on at the ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ event and how difficult our task of spreading Zombie Awareness in such an environment looked upon arrival. I mean, they hit just about every conceivable trope of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ genre of pernicious fiction to [...]
John Sears | October 27, 2011
It’s not many movies that inspire labors of grisly love like this so many decades after their release: George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is the kind of movie that continues to lay the chills on hot and heavy decades after its release. The good thing for us? The merch surrounding [...]
John Sears | October 26, 2011
This could have been a positive, image-changing project but I gather that it indulges in a lot of negative stereotyping about Zombies instead: The 2012 Zombie Pinup Calendar has arrived! Gorgeous & Gory exhibits a variety of uniquely seductive images. The styling of each photo is unlike any other, and at the center of each [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
This is one of the very strangest promotional campaigns relating to the Differently Animated we’ve yet seen: In a pop-culture world of zombie marches, video games and television shows, one regional hardware chain has taken the novel approach of actively marketing power tools and garden implements as protection against the undead. And not to leave [...]