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10/20/2011: Book Review: Zone One by Colson Whitehead - NPR
Always known by that full name (not his real one, but a post-plague moniker bestowed upon him after a disastrous battle on a bridge), Mark Spitz travels with the rest of Team Omega across Zone One — Manhattan below Canal Street — which is protected from the swarming undead by a concrete retaining wall. In each building, Omega kills off the “skels,” hungry active zombies, and the “stragglers,” brain-dead victims stuck in place who waste away to nothing in a haunting echo of their former lives. (The copy boy, for example, stares blankly at a Xerox machine until he’s put down with a shot to the head.) Collection gathers the bagged corpses; Disposal burns them in enormous incinerators next to the wall. The 24-hour ashfall that results is just one of this disquieting novel’s canny echoes of post-Sept. 11 New York. After all, Zone One itself both includes, and seems like the natural descendant of, ground zero. - Dan Kois
Ooooo zombie book. Excellent.
10/11/2011: Television: The Walking Dead season 2 - NYTimes
But instead of marching triumphantly into a new 13-episode season, “The Walking Dead” sometimes feels as if it is lurching forward, burdened by its own success, the tremendous expectations of the audience it cultivated and a perception that it sheds creative staff members as abruptly as it dispenses with characters. - David Itzkoff
Anyways, the trailer looks fantastic. Very excited.
11/20/2010: Television Review: The Walking Dead - The Guardian
Darabont is well known as Steven King’s best advocate in Hollywood, a director who has shepherded several King stories to the screen – Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, The Mist – with care and respect to the source material. And the opening episode of The Walking Dead, it turns out, has a lot in common with the first 200 pages of King’s not entirely successful, but highly influential 1979 epic The Stand (which Romero was once slated to direct), in which 96% of humankind is wiped out by a virus, leaving small groups of immune survivors wandering alone and terrified in a corpse-filled landscape. Those dead didn’t walk, but Darabont’s do. He is of the opinion that zombies should kick it Romero style: groaning, shuffling, but utterly implacable and VERY hungry for their corporeal fast-food. - John Patterson
Read the full, and insightful, review here.
The Walking Dead is certainly not perfect, but it’s really good, and I really like it. I know it’s early, but it’s already one of my three favorite cable dramas, and the only one that’s on right now. (The other two are Justified and Memphis Beat. Three shows that take place in the South with law-enforcement protagonists? Yeah, completely unintentional, I promise.) The second and third episode haven’t lived up to the pilot, but that’s ok, it would be hard to do. That first episode was incredibly tense and erie. I’ve heard a lot of really specific criticisms, and that’s fine, watch what you want, but it’s television, it’s here to entertain us. If it can creep us out too, even better.
11/12/2010: Misc: Richard Nixon: Zombie Hunter? - PaperCuts - NYTimes
““Call of Duty: Black Ops” features a sequence in which Richard Nixon teams up with John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro to fight off zombie hordes at the Pentagon.”
I did not make that up. Read for yourself. Click here.
5/9/2010: Comics: I, Zombie by Roberson/Allred - NPR
New zombie comic out this week. Enough said right? Well there’s more:
The series is I, Zombie, described by its publisher Vertigo as a mix of zombie girl detective, urban fantasy and romantic dramedy. Which, let’s just note, is a lot to chew on already, and that’s not even mentioning the wealth of densely quirky elements writer Chris Roberson tosses into the pot, which send the book soaring past merely “high-concept” into … just plain high.
Click here for the full Review.
