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    Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!

    Why Venus is the Second-Most Inhabitable Planet in Our Solar System

    The Political Economy of A Zombie-Infested Floating City

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    Image of ShockTerminal ShockTerminal
    10/13/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    The Borg don't count?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/13/09

    @ShockTerminal: Ha... I had the Borg in there, but ppl convinced me they weren't QUITE zombies... they're right on the edge i'd say.
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    Image of Mudassir Chapra Mudassir Chapra
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    All this talk of Space zombies, and not a single mention of Black Lanterns? Shame on you, io9, shame, on, you!

    *shakes head*
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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. promoted this comment Mudassir Chapra was starred Mudassir Chapra was unstarred
    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/12/09

    @Mudassir Chapra: Try #2. The word you're looking for is "oops".
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/13/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Thanks for saving me from having to point it out! Yeah, I did talk about it -- even though I had to represent for Driq.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    Great choice on Lifeforce! I love that movie.

    'Start from the beginning, assume we know nothing. Which is, of course, an understatement.'
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    SEE brutal (insert non white male) menace beautiful PURE white girls!
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    Didn't Wayne Rogers from MASH help write AstroZombies?
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    Image of moosenlawyer000 moosenlawyer000
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    The bodies of the dead humans are reanimated and compressed into dwarves. The dwarves are then exported via gateway to another dimension or planet for use as slave labor. The villianous Tall Man (never named) runs a funeral home as a front operation as he collects resource material for conversion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasm_(film)

    - Jason
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/13/09

    @moosenlawyer000: Ooh good one!
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    If you're going to check out Astro Zombies, order it from Ted's site so he gets the money: [www.tedvmikels.com]

    As a mutual filmmaker Ted & I know recently posted to my site, the economy is putting a hurting on the old bird: [www.lasvegasweekly.com]
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @Allen_Richards: Oh that sucks... Ted V. Mikels' movies are seriously uneven to say the least, but he is a legend.
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/13/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: lol. That's putting it mildly. He makes Ed Wood look like Orson Wells.
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    Image of TickMan TickMan
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    Do the Marvel Zombies count? Some of them have Sci-Fi elements and there was a time when they were floating through space in search of food before moving into dimensional eating sprees.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @TickMan: Oh yeah... they totally count.
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/12/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Also, interesting to note, the Flood form a sort of hive mind somewhat like the guys from Sly Mongoose. Which also makes me think of the zombie-like creatures from Stephen King's Cell, though they're a little too terrestrial for this list.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    I think theres too many zombie flicks ,now people can`t even tell the difference ,between a mutant and a zombie sheesh.
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    Image of TickMan TickMan
    10/12/09

    @disatess: It would be easier if they didn't intermingle like in Resident Evil, or if the mutants weren't so dumb half the time.
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/12/09

    @disatess: Yeah? Well, I think you're a mutant zombie sheesh, so there. And I don't even know what that means. But I do think if it weren't the current zombie craze, poor Max Brooks would be out of a job. And what else is the little guy going to do? He can't live off his dad's dwindling hilarity forever...
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/13/09

    @wanion: calm yourself, I liked all of Max Brooks`s book except for recorded attacks ,wasn`t worth $17.00 dollars .
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/13/09

    @disatess: I'm not really being serious, just so you know. What I was originally going to say to your comment (before I decided to go the stupid, jokey route) was that it's not so much too many zombie flicks as it's too many zombies invading every single medium in increasingly ridiculous ways. Star Wars zombies? And I love zombies, they're my favorite nightmare, but it's getting a little much.

    I also like World War Z the way it took the zombie survival guide which was essentially just a gag and turned it into a pretty gripping read, even despite the after-the-fact way the story is told, but I think Recorded Attacks is just returning to the well one time too many.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/13/09

    @wanion: it is and very little reading involved just moderately detailed comic pages .
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    10/13/09

    @disatess: agree his father`s series should come to end ,though it doesn`t mean it won`t .
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    Image of TickMan TickMan
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    1. The Reavers weren't very scary. They had a good backstory though, but I don't see how they made it to numero 3.

    2. The Geth aren't all slaves to Sovereign and the Reapers. Some dialog hints a sentient mind according to Tali's people.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @TickMan: The ranking is pretty loose... Feel free to suggest rearrangements... And I was thinking it went the other way.
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    10/12/09

    @TickMan: To who? A person sitting at home watching a fake tv show about them? Because, no, no they weren't then. To the fictional people who had to encounter them? Fuck yeah they're scary.
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    Image of AveryGuerra AveryGuerra
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    aYou know Ted V. Mikels is currently shooting "Astro Zombies M3:Cloned" right? It's a sequel to both his Astro Zombies and Doll Squad flicks.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    I don't think the Borg are zombies.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: Maybe I should replace them with Kai from Lexx.... Hmm...
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10/12/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: I think he'd be a much better fit for this list.

    Jerhume Brunnen G!
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/12/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: your right there not.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    I love Dead Space, hopefully they step up the variety of suspenseful moments in the sequel. I startle easy and I lvoe getting startled gets my adrenaline going, and Dead Space offered up moments that I hadn't expereinced since the first Silent Hill.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    Possibly Kai from Lexx? He was definitely dead, so I guess that makes him more of a zombie than the Reavers.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Oh yeah, good point. How did I forget him?
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    10/12/09

    In reply to Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time!
    Good call on the necromorphs from Dead Space.

    Locutus of Borg is a space zombie??? DId I miss that little bit of ST:TNG trivia?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): We were debating the Borg thing... the Borg are definitely very zombie-ish.
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