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08/03/09
08/03/09
But Dc series the blackest night was planned and slowly put together .
Marvels new seris looks to be just thrown togther .
like Captain America : reborn.
08/02/09
08/02/09
To which I can only say:
w00t!
I'm firmly a Bronze Age kid, so I'm loving the return to a wider set of styles of comics. B:tB&tB is delighting me with bringing back characters from way way back in the day.
Maybe this zombie crap will go out of style soon (at the rate it's being pushed in every medium, probably so) and this will the last gasp *grr, argh* of it. We'll look back at Black Lanterns and P&P&Z and think "Oh, that's sooo 2009."
It'd be nice to get back to some heroics, some colors other than black and gray, some time of day other than night. Maybe an occasional laugh or two! (in a comic book? that's crazy talk)
08/02/09
Glad to see they're THINKING about what to do with them AFTER they decide to hop on the bandwagon, though.
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@thefunnyone: DC does have Deadman. Boston Brand first showed up in'67. But the whole super undead thing is silly, ain't it?
08/02/09
@Grey_Area:
Marvel's Simon Garth aka Zombie in 1953! :D
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08/02/09
Best I could do; apparently the Comics Code used to ban zombies.
08/02/09
Do any of you remember that it was that particular story in Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 in 1986 that got O'Neill's very art style BANNED by the Comics Code? "Too pointy & icky" they cried. That same year DC published Metalzooic, the first creator-owned book to come from DC, done by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. A beginnining of the end of that antiquated censorship bullshit.
But I digress.
08/04/09
Simon Garth sort've was a superhero zombie, he'd go zombie via the Amulet then do what he had to do. Check out the Marvel Essentials Tales of the Zombie book.
An alternate version of the Zombie joined Nick Fury's Howlin' Comandos.
04/04/09
Will this create shoals of zombie herring?
Can you swim and shamble at the same time?
I NEED ANSWERS, PEOPLE!
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I suppose it would depend on Pacific or Atlantic. Are herring cold water or hot water? I can't remember.
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I'm going to go with "no," since they're both already dead....just different types of dead. The whole living dead vs. the undead thing can be a little tricky, but I subscribe to the theory that dead is dead and the only cross-species action that can take place is between the living and the dead to create some sort of hybrid monster caught between the two worlds (ie. vampire werewolves, or zombie werewolves).
But let's face reality, in an imaginative writer's mind, anything is possible....
....like, say, this new trend of vampires not being dead and just a different species. i guess, if that were the case, then yes, you could have a zombie vampire. damn it, i just blew my own rules about vampires and zombies.....grrrr....
04/04/09
A zombie, at its most basic is just an animate corpse.
If a vampire can leave a corpse (and some versions of them can) it can be made a zombie.
Some may disagree with my 'crackpot theories' but, as soon as that government grant comes through I WILL SHOW THE WORLD!
...
04/04/09
And this is where the two differing species of vampire come into play. Not to mention all the various kinds of zombies.
The traditional "undead" vampire is just that, an animated corpse, albeit one with all its cognative functions intact. Since neither a traditional vampire nor a zombie has any bloodflow, there's no way to spread the infection from species to the next.
Now, you have those new fangled living vampires, HomoSuckurbloodus, which are living, breathing predators who feed on people. These cats should be able to succumb to the blood-born zombie plague.
On the flip side, you have a wealth of zombie varieties, both Romero-inspired and non-Romero zombies. For the record, Romero zombies are just flesh eating ghouls. real zombies are voodoo based. Unfortunatley, Romero's zombies became the norm. I'm thinking that only the second vampire strain should be able to succumb to the voodoo zombie powder as it has bloodflow and will allow the nuerotoxins to travel to the vital organs. Romero-esque ghouls don't have bloodflow and shouldn't succumb to vampire infections.
Also, since traditional vampires burn up upon re-death, we shoudln't have to worry about any Herbert West-style RE-ANIMATOR zombiefication.
but I think the real question is why the hell am I giving this that much thought.
04/04/09
How do you kill vampire zombie?
04/04/09
You mean a zompire? In general, probably not. In Steve Jackson Games' Munchkin card game, absolutely. If you can win by playing Undead on a Vampire (which I did the first/only time I've ever played it), there's got to be a way to zombify one instead. Or maybe that's exactly what I did...
04/04/09
+ Watch video
That link takes you to the greatest zombie vs. shark fight all all-time. Hell, the zombie funcions so well under water that he even tries to make time with a nude scuba diver....
Director Lucio Fulci was one sick bastard.....
04/04/09
That nude scuma diver's supposed to be his daughter, IIRC.
so yes, Fulci's sick. Sick and awesome
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