You know what makes doing work at home on a computer difficult? Video games. I love video games, and TV, and movies. That’s why I write about them, the problem is, I love them so damn much, that I can easily get wrapped up in them and lose track of time. Which can cut in to my time to write about them, I still manage though, look at the site. It has posts, a lot of them, and I’m not lazy when it comes to what I actually write, I take time and put forth effort with thought and thinking. There is thinking to my writing, that is thoughtfully thought about and… what am I talking about?

What are you thinking about? How about a good ol' click on the comic to make it bigger?

Oh, Zombie chasing a cupcake, how inspired you have become within my household! It is actually a drawing idea that was created by Jessica (the girl in the comic) that we ended up using it for our first t-shirt design. All of us are huge zombie fans, and we are far from the only ones, the aughts have been infected by the zombie apocalypse bug like never before. Something about the re-animated dead has shaken the mainstream audience and become this phenom of epic proportions. We are truly living in:

The Age of the Zombie

While the zombie mythology and movie have been around for a long time, there was a long period of time where they waned in popularity, and no one can argue that right now is the pentacle of this horror movie monster’s success. Zombies are everywhere! They are in movies, television, and video games, so much so that it must be near impossible to get a horror movie made without some serious discussion on why zombies aren’t in it.

“I know it’s a ghost story, but can’t they be zombie ghosts?”

Video games especially have had a huge run with zombies as of late. We have survival horror games that got started with the Resident Evil franchise and their heavy use of the Romero made monster (along with variations of the old shambling cannibal corpse), to now a zombie like infection that creates crazy multi-limb monsters in space with Dead Space. Hell, zombies even got into our WWII with nazi zombies in World At War. Zombies are in space, zombies are in the past, zombies are even battling sentient plants! It is crazy how over-indulged we as a society are with re-animated corpses that eat people.

Nazi zombies - less evil because they are at least no longer horribly racist.

I know in the world of video games it is immensely satisfying to horribly hack apart a zombie because they are a perverted form of humanity. They are safe to kill in violently crazy ways (Dead Rising 2 has you make crazy ass contraptions for the purpose of slaughtering zombies for more points) and while there are plenty of games that have you murdering real live human beings, they are far more reserved than what is possible and safe to do with a zombie. If you took the action from Dead Rising and turned all the zombies into people, we’d have a game that would make Postal look tame. We’re Americans, we like violence, but we also have this strange sense of morals. We also fear sex and nudity (topic for another time maybe). We like to slaughter things, and zombies are safe to slaughter, plus they are inherently scary due to the ideals they represent. The good zombie movies know that the focus of the story should be on the survivors and the crash of humanity when faced with the animated dead, and with the upcoming Naughty Dog project, The Last of Us, we might just finally get some real story to a style of game that has just been all about evil corporations or over-the-top violence.

I have had tons of zombie apocalypse conversations with people, it is a topic that it appears anybody is willing to discuss. I’ve been approached by a co-worker in his 40′s who was taking a poll with fellow staff-members that asked the question “if you could only have one weapon to fight off zombies, what would it be, and why?” It became this huge group discussion that everyone loved, there was not a single individual that went, “that is stupid, I don’t like zombies!” because those people don’t exist. I’ve even had a zombie apocalypse conversation with my Grandparents and the rest of my family during the holidays.

Hell, right here in Las Vegas (EoN’s hometown), a zombie apocalypse survival store just opened up, and it is awesome.

No seriously, it is an actual store. I've been there, it is awesome, because it is really a survivalist store wrapped in zombie love. Picture links to their website

So, zombies are everywhere, this is a fact. I don’t see them going away anytime soon either. Even though there are some individuals that have spoken out against The Last Of Us because it is another zombie game, however, all outlying data suggests that the world is still head over heels in love with them. We are zombie America, and The Last Of Us will sell! Unless it sucks, but it is Naughty Dog, so it probably wont.

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