NEWS: Attack of the Killer Zombies--Again

CULTURE: Attack of the Killer Zombies--Again

New York Times reporter Warren St. John examines the resurrection of zombies in pop culture in "Market for Zombies? It's Undead (Aaahhh!)." Recent and upcoming zombie sightings include David Wellington's Monster Island, a zombies-in-Manhattan novel; World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, from the author of The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead; and Stephen King's cellphone zombie novel, Cell: A Novel. So, why zombies--and why now?

Part of us wants to hate, kill, destroy. Part of us is ashamed of that.

Hating, killing and destroying zombies is guiltless.

All I know is that I fully appreciate the reinsurgence of zombies. And being that I'm an owner of the Zombie Survival Guide, I'm prepared for anything.

All I know is that zombie movies are some of my favorites.

I'd also like to add, that there is no trial, fictional or fact, that seems more challenging than surviving a zombie-apocalypse...

You might have to re-kill your parents, children, loved ones, animals... They might try to eat you alive and turn you into one of them... You might end up trying to rip apart the ones you love yourself...

Can you put a bullet in the brain of "humans"? Can you live with the eternal moans of undead hunger right outside whatever wall you're temporarily behind?

It's just such an intrigueing thing...

Don't forget Urbandead! Join us!

To put myself in a position where life has changed, zombies! I could do it so easily, i see words making others into zombies everyday. I become a zombie to this site after awhile.

Screw the why or who. After DOTD '04 I stayed up for months scarred a little zombie girl was going to come through my bedroom door.
I was freaking scared of them, that's where my obsession came form.
Gettign sucked into the hardcore survival aspect is how I got over my fear.

i HATE zombies.

and that's why i want to kill them.

and own the Survival Guide.

and will own this book, too.

Zombies are funny until someone loses a pal at a zombie party... Opportunity for politicians to over-zealously legislate (ie, ban) zombie parties?

Grr...aargh?

Mrh?

Holly crap I was reading that story this morning but didn't see the part about it being a Zombie party!

It wasn't clear if the killer was dressed-up in a zombie costume or if he just crashed the party, in plain clothes. I wonder if some of the "revelers" played dead when the gunman approached?

Don't forget the excellent comic, "Marvel Zombies", that's out right now.

Fun, badass stuff.

Because zombies are fucking cool thats why!

Make sure to check out eric powells "the goon" also , best comic ever!

Wait...Cell is about zombies? Thanks for spoilers, news-type people...

My personal favorite renditions of the theme: The Rising,
and City of the Dead, both by Brian Keene.

He hits most of the usual zombie apocalypse notes: loved ones zombified, unwitnessed turnings that lead to shock that so-and-so is walking dead, crazy military types, bases that eventually get overrun. But his particular twists are twofold and much scarier (to me, anyway). 1) The zombies are intelligent, and possess most or all of the memories of the host body. This means they can and do taunt and provoke most evilly. This also means they can use tools and, some of them, weapons. 2) Animals also zombify, and it's much harder to tell with most of them. This leads to The Birds style attacks from flocks of zombie birds, and encounters with zombie snakes, lions, crocodiles, rats...it also means that traditional areas of safety (non-human-populated zones) aren't significantly safer because any animal you encounter could be undead.

Oh, and they're organized, too. All of them. Not hive mind, they're individuals...but they *are* an army.

GRRR ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! mrh?

I'm all for the "zombie resurrection". However for every good zombie property their are a disproportionate number of bad zombie outings.

zombie movies are like sex and pizza though....y'all know the rest....