Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Walking Dead TV show is returning to AMC on February 12, 2012. A new trailer is on YouTube. Unfortunately, it’s little more than a teaser, so who knows what will happen next after the big shoot up at the barn?
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Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson
A British hacker, a U.S. congresswomen, and a Japanese scientist walk into an apocalypse…Sounds like the beginning of one of those jokes you remember hearing but can’t repeat because it is far too complic…
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We haven’t had a duel/dual review in a while, so why not look at two zombie movies coming in 2012! First up is Juan of the Dead:
When I saw the title of this movie, I thought it was some cheap Shaun of the Dead rip-off. While it doesn…
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Hellboy: House of the Living Dead by Mike Mignola
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In this follow-up to the "Hellboy in Mexico" comic, the story starts with Hellboy on a bender after allowing a friend to be turned by bad guys. He’s also spending his time as a lucha libre, or Mexican masked wrestler. He winds up at a mad scientist’s house where he enters the ring with Frankenstein’s Monster and at various
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Zombiewood Weekly: The Celebrity Dead Exposedis a parody of glossy entertainment magazines found in grocery store checkout lines across the world. Each page has one to three gag paragraphs on a famous person (including a full color zombie portrait) and…
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Portal 2 by Electronic Arts and Valve
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ for fantasy violence and mild language
You may be asking yourself, "Why is he reviewing Portal 2 on a zombie blog? There’s no zombies in that game, is there? Just a bunch of robots and one human." It’s a valid point, but I think I have a work-around.
At the end of the original Portal game, your character shuts down the devious
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 7: Pretty Much Dead Already
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–Some views of the zombies in the barn; wrangling zombies stuck in the mud; gun…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 6: Secrets
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–chicken leg broken (while it’s still alive); zombies eating a bunch of live chickens; zombies…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 5: Chupacabra
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–A couple of zombies who wind up with impaled heads; Daryl makes a necklace of zombie ears;…
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While I have a natural (at least it seems natural to me) abhorrence of most thing political, I also have a love of things completely absurd. Imagine the quandary I found myself in when I read that the United States Federal Government is trying to imple…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3: Save the Last One
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
9 out of 10–Lots of gunshots to zombie heads with the burst of blood; one character has an intense seizure; one…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 4: Cherokee Rose
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
7 out of 10–A waterlogged zombie (i.e. more bloated than rotting); flashbacks of a zombie attack and character …
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) directed by George A. Romero
Having recently listened to a commentary on Shaun of the Dead, I realized I’ve only seen this first movie of the Romero zombie canon. I plan on watching one a month for coming months with…
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 2: Bloodletting
TV rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
6
out of 10–The zombie count is down a little bit, however, Rick’s son
Carl has been shot and we see some of the surgery…
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The CDC marches forward with new zombie apocalypse preparedness materials. Most people would call it a comic book, but they prefer the term graphic novella, which I believe is used by no one else in the comics industry, the publishing industry, or the …
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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1: What Lies Ahead
TV Rating
TV-14
ZPAA rating
Late teen and up
Gore level
8
out of 10–Whoa, a black and white comic book gets the full color, full
motion, "realistic" treatment. Lots of zombies and other dessicated
corpses who aren’t walking around populate the episode and are pretty
unpleasant to look at. Some of them are killed in especially
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In case you are wondering why there hasn’t been some zombie apocalypse safety awareness campaign based on airplane safety demonstrations (and let’s face it, who hasn’t?), then you haven’t seen Zombiefication: A Short Film.
The short is set in a movie …
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Resident Evil 5 chalks up 16 injuries, but how do you identify the real injuries from the zombie makeup? From JoBlo.com:
…though 16 people were hurt on the set of Resident Evil 5, no one was
killed fortunately, but it was a scary accident. A group …
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Cracked.com has some tips for the zombies during the zombie apocalypse: 8 Zombie Apocalypse Survival Strategies (For Zombies) Most likely you’ll be one of the zombies, so why not prepare ahead of time? Some of the tips aren’t appropriate for the kids b…
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…by those wonderful people at A Good Story is Hard to Find. I haven’t listened yet but I will very, very soon. They always give insightful and interesting commentaries. I just listened to them discuss Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, where…
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