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 | 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 | September 17, 2011
I’d heard about this at some point in the past but it’s out now and apparently pretty ghastly for the Differently Animated: The comic Daybreak is a field trip through the zombie apocalypse Brian Ralph’s graphic novel Daybreak takes a phenomenological approach to survivalist horror. Like the participant in a pick-a-path novel, the reader is [...]
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 14, 2011
Well, it seems that Robert Kirkman’s shadowy web of evil continues to expand: Robert Kirkman’s first in a three book series with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press will hit shelves nationwide October 11th and is now available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book, which Kirkman co-authored with horror genre vet Jay [...]
John Sears | August 6, 2011
We brought you news here on the ZRC blog before about a Minnesota public library’s tragic decision to use its position in the community to spread Anti-Zombie prejudice to children. That was a ghastly story and quite shocking. Horrifyingly, it seems to be only one instance.. of a trend: There have been unconfirmed reports of [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
‘Mars Needs Moms’ was a beloved children’s book that was adapted into a spectacularly poorly received animated film, released earlier this year in March. You may not have heard of the movie, and odds are you certainly did not see it; no one at the ZRC has either, although our Cultural Historian Andrew Leal was [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2011
I strongly deny the implication that violence in the media directly leads to violence in real life, whether from videogames, film or books; to say the evidence is weak would be the understatement of the century. Even if there was a correlation, it is obviously arguable that freedom of expression is worth some risk to [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2011
A spinoff book. A set of ridiculously creepy busts. An Anti-Zombie board game. Yes, ‘The Walking Dead’ is descending on Comic-Con like a plague of ravenous locusts, determined to destroy all compassion toward the Differently Animated as well as, perhaps, all of Western Civilization. They’re ambitious that way. AMC is helpfully even providing you with [...]
John Sears | July 21, 2011
You know, there are few depths to which I’m surprised to see Living Supremacists stoop these days, but something about this promo video for ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 2 and the cast appearance at Comic-Con still managed to offend me: Is it just me, or is there a serious subtext in this video of mocking [...]