Just wanted to comment upon a couple of shirts that went up at Threadless.com recently.

First we have the blatantly offensive and Anti-Zombie shirt ‘The Horde’, depicting, you guessed it, a horde of Zombies surrounding a lonely protagonist:

Once again we have an irresponsible ‘creative’ type pushing the discredited ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario, complete with that old iconic symbol of Anti-Zombie violence, the shotgun. Naturally.
The ZRC will go ahead and rate this one as Anti-Zombie.

But then for contrast we have this ‘Zombie at Tiffany’s’ shirt, based on the classic Hepburn movie:

While on its face this might seem to trip over into being a ‘Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute’, something about the cheerfully clean linework says ‘sophistication’ to me. This Zombie doesn’t want to eat your brains, like Hollywood would have you believe. She has class. That’s definitely something we can get behind, and so the ZRC will rate it as Zombie Friendly.

All this is just a roundabout way of saying that constant vigilance over Zombie-related products is necessary. True, the majority will fall roughly in line with the ‘Horde’ shirt, being defamatory, Living Supremacist and in generally poor taste, but every so often you get a diamond in the rough like the ‘Zombie at Tiffany’s’ item, and that’s worth keeping an eye out for.

(Naturally, the images above from Threadless.com remain their property and are used here in accordance with critical commentary and review. Just felt like noting that.)

Tags: Anti-Zombie Products, Zombie Art, Zombie Products, ZRC Reviews

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