Zombie -- Eat Flesh! T-shirts!

I've been stopped so many times by people loving the T-shirt shown to the left. I will start stocking this and a few other popular shirts here in Toronto. Just fire me an email if you're interested (dmarks@blogofthelivingdead.com -- no order necessary at this time).  It`ll help me decided how many to get in-- saving both you and me shipping costs.  Cost of shirt will likely be $15.

This shirt comes in the green you see here, or black.  I prefer the green to be honest.  Wanna read our review of this fine product, and others, check it out HERE!

Confused.com sends a zombie invasion to your neighborhood-- really!

To promote the importance of home insurance, and lord knows we really need it when the apocalypse hits, Confused.com/home-insurance has launched a mashup of Google Streets View and cartoon zombies, along with clever use of on-the-fly insertion of names, etc to create a fun short video called "Home Sweet Zombie."  Yep, just type in your Last name & address, (I tried addresses all over the place, Canada, US, UK, and they all worked), and sit back and enjoy.  Make sure you have the sound on, go to the link below, and try it out.  It's a riot (literally)... in your neighborhood!

No hard home-insurance sell, just a nice friendly reminder at the end-- although, ironically they do not cover zombie apocalypses.

Try out the application HERE!

The Walking Dead Season 3 -- Extended 4 Minute Comic Con Trailer

Comic Con 2012 is behind us; the Lollipop Chainsaw cosplay chicks have hung up their pom-poms, and every conceivable writing surface that was within a block of the San Diago Convention Center with an autograph scrawled on it has been neatly tucked into a free page of a "Visual Dictionary of Star Wars" coffee table book.  By coffee table, I mean a desk with McDonald's bags, empty cans of coke, and a laptop.

Out of this year's Comic Con came, among other things, this great 4 minute trailer for Season 3 of "The Walking Dead."  In this trailer, we are introduced to Samurai sword wielding Michonne (who looks very much like the chick in the graphic novel) and the Governor (who thankfully doesn't. In the graphic novel, the Governor was such an over-top-looking character, that he would probably have come off as just cartoony on TV).

Enjoy...

Walking Dead Comic Buries the Competition as 100th Issue Sells Out

New York Times reports...

Reading comic books gets one used to bombastic proclamations. To announce some news about issue No. 100 of “The Walking Dead,” Image Comics, which publishes the series, used the subject line “the Best-Selling Comic of the 21st Century.”

Boastful or not, the declaration is true: the issue has sold out of its initial order of 383,612 copies. Not to take anything away from the accomplishment, but this issue of “The Walking Dead,” written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, had a little help. Rabid fans and collectors flock toward milestones (issue No. 100!) and multiple covers (this one had nine – same story, different cover – that were available for purchase).

“The Walking Dead” has been something of a sales phenomenon since it began: slowly gaining readers despite reader attrition being the norm. The hardcover and softcover collected editions are often part of The New York Times’s Graphic Books Best Sellers list. The comic has also inspired a television show on AMC. The third season begins on Oct. 14.

Be aware that the following covers may contain spoilers to those fans of the TV Show, and who haven't read the graphic novels.  Click "READ MORE>>>" to view the covers.

"The Reawakening" by Joseph Souza -- A Book Review

Blog of the Living Dead has teamed up with Patrick D'Orazio to bring you some of the best zombie book reviews anywhere!  Here is our first collaboration. Group hug!


Review by Patrick D'Orazio
The Reawakening begins with the narrator, Thom Swiftley, a famous novelist, taking his seventeen year old daughter, Dar, up from their Boston home to his brother’s farm in northern Maine.  Rick, his brother, was a highly respected geneticist who decided to leave his prestigious career behind to get away from the rat race to grow crops and milk cows, or so it seems.  Dar has suffered from numerous mental issues in her life, and has been suicidal throughout much of her teenage years.  Thom thinks it would be a good idea for her to see her uncle and favorite aunt before she goes off to college.

Almost immediately things start going wrong on the farm. 

The Concept Revealed! Wanna Survive the impending Zombie Apocalypse? From Conception to FIRST PHOTO!

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Hyundai has officially unveiled the Elantra Coupe Zombie Survival Machine at San Diego's Comic-Con.

Designed by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, the one-off model was fabricated by Design Craft and features a spiked "zombie plow," armored windows and a roof hatch that is perfect for drive-by shootings. There's also floodlights, all-terrain tires, a CB radio and a trunk full of weaponry.

According to Steve Shannon, Hyundai's American vice president of Marketing, "Our custom Elantra Coupe Zombie Survival Machine is the ultimate car for The Walking Dead fans and anyone who wants to survive a zombie invasion. We are excited for fans to come and experience the Elantra Coupe and GT in a unique, post-apocalyptic way."

Want more?  Yeah, you do!  Click ME!

Thanks Richard T. for this update!

The Ultimate Zombie Weapon - the Rocket Propelled Chainsaw!

They're closing in, and it's looking like it's curtains for Steph... Rifling through his backpack "Dang-it!-- my backpack is worse than a woman's purse!"  ...and then, at the very last second, his hand feels it, way down at the bottom under the tissues and inhalers...

The ultimate zombie weapon!

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Live-- up to the second "Zombie" Data! A Google-Maps Mashup!

As it would appear we are in fact entering a true Zombie Apocalypse, all of the intel that can be obtained can only allow us to make better decisions.

Here's Google and Meta Data doing it's thing...

Newsweek & The Daily Beast is tracking news of instances that may be the precursor to a zombie apocalypse. Blue pins represent suspicious incidences or infections, while red pins represent acts of strange violence.

Bookmark this:
This is a live link!!!!

And for those of you really starting to freak out, here's a nicely assembled clean site, with further details:
http://www.zombie-tracker.com/

Campaign launched to create Zombie theme in Detroit

Z World - Detroit

This one is from intrepid contributors (Rob J. and substantiated by Quentin M.)...

Never mind Wonderland or Disneyland or Dollywood or Marineland or any other theme park designed to make you forget about the cold, harsh reality of life.

Give me Z World Detroit any time. That’s right. An entrepreneur by the name of Mark Siwak wants to make good use of the swaths of abandoned areas of the city and make a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE THEME PARK!

This is clearly the best idea anyone has ever had. But it’s an idea that needs some funds to get off the ground. So, there’s a campaign going on at indiegogo to crowd source.

According to the pitch, “Z World Detroit will be a unique and spectacular zombie themed experience park that will transform a virtually neglected section of Detroit, Michigan. Participants will be chased by a growing zombie horde through abandoned factories, stores and homes across hundreds of derelict urban acres. The city of Detroit is considering literally abandoning sections of the city. While the economic and social benefits of this action can be debated. We think the situation demands more creativity. The Z World Detroit initiative is a radical rethinking of urban redevelopment and Detroit’s well-documented blight and de-population.

“It turns perceived liabilities into assets that will bring a renewed vitality to a struggling neighborhood. When done right, Z World Detroit would be transformative for part of the city; it would create jobs for Detroiters and become a legitimate destination. While zombies are great, the real neat thing about this project is the potential to inject some life into a forgotten neighborhood — with the opportunity to work with neighborhood groups and organization. In short, Z World Detroit would become part of the neighborhood, the center of the neighborhood, rather than something sitting outside the neighborhood.”

Unfortunately, only $3,148 out of the $145,000 needed to get the project off the ground has been raised so far. Watch the video and then tell me this isn’t a better investment than installing those armoured doors in your house. When the actual zombies do come they’re going to find a way in anyway.

Activision Makes a First Person Shooter Based on "The Walking Dead."

I read this report earlier today, brought to my attention by one of our intrepid zombie wranglers, and ... well... here are my first thoughts.

Activision is still alive????  Didn't Activision die with Atari?  Well, it would appear, like the living dead, they have clawed their way out of their grave, dusted off their "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" game engine, and somehow managed to acquire the rights to stick "The Walking Dead" on the box cover.

Brain fart number 2 happened when I looked at the screen caps.  Despite the fact that none of the baddies look like zombies is one thing, but what in the hell is that giant brain-with-legs in the last one???

For the less cerebral of The Walking Dead fans, this might still be great news for fans of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. While millions of fans have been enjoying the episodic point-and-click adventure game from Telltale Games, console fans hungry for a little more action will be excited to learn that Activision is making a shooter based on the popular comic book, AMC television series, and live action role-playing game.

I am now paraphrasing from their promotional material...

Exclusive screenshots from the game are here!  In the first shot, you can see how Activision uses state-of-the-art graphics to present a realistic first person viewpoint as the player guns down zombies with a handgun, just like Rick and Shane in the TV show.

Zombies won't be the only enemies the player faces in the game. With the world in a state of chaos following the zombie apocalypse, nobody can be trusted, not even these military commandoes, armed with machine guns, whom the player must face in this dazzlingly realistic concrete bunker.

Could the videogame reveal upcoming plotlines in the comic or television show?   (Laughable question) This reporter has followed the Walking Dead comic for years now, and I don't remember Rick and the gang ever facing off against a giant zombie brain on a spider-robot. Perhaps this is the big secret in Walking Dead #100?!  (You know it's not bonehead)

The game is due out sometime in 2013 from Activision, and though other websites don't have the sweet exclusive screenshots like we do above, the trailer below has been making it's rounds on the web, and you can also check out the website for the game here.

So let's leave it this way.  If you wanna shoot baddies (no matter what 8-bit Image they are)-- this is the game for you!

Someone, somewhere is holding his hand over his mouth and snickering.

OK, OK.  Yeah, Activision is really making a "Walking Dead" game.

Read about it below....

Aftereffects: Zombie Therapy-- The Book Review

Just finished up "AfterEffects:  Zombie Therapy" by Zane Bradey.  The synopsis of this novel is unique, and intrigued me immediately.

What if they found a cure?  What if, after this cure, you unfortunately still remembered everything that happened, before, after, and while you were a zombie?

What if you remember sucking the eyeball out of your grannie, or eating the breasts of your lover, or biting  nose after nose after nose off of your clients?  It's all lovingly played back in your mind, in horrific, bone cracking, tendon snapping, vein slurping detail.  How can you feel guilty when the pain of being undead is so intense that only the warm innards of someone... anyone... can heal it... for a time.  But like a junky, the need will always come back, and it will always be worse -- because the confusion of being newly undead is gone.  You know how to make the pain go away now.

Other species in Peril!

Occasionally, zombie movies show the undead settling for something other than human flesh.  My guess it's a bit like a Texan settling for tofu.  Regardless, this small snippit indicates their possible changing palate...