Did anyone ever read that old Vertigo comic, The Books of Magic? Unicorn awesomeness. Grawwr, horn in your face, Manticore!

Or those Bruce Coville YA books about Unicorns? I may have been like 7 when I read them, but I recall them being pretty cool.

Or how about that movie The Last Unicorn? Maybe more trippy than badass, but still. And that theme song? "I'm aliiiive! I'm aliiiiiieeeeeeve!"



Anything can be awesome, if you do it right. Take a unicorn, but make it BLACK. Put a samurai on its back. The Samurai? He's playing a guitar -- shaped like a lightning bolt! The unicorn is galloping through the cosmos, on a rainbow. With every step it takes, a shooting star falls out of its tail! It's the Heavy Metal Unicorn. Lame? No way. More like so awesome it'll make you cry LASER BEAMS!

Of course, on the flip side, anything awesome can be lame, if done poorly. Zombies Apocalypse = Awesome. And yet how many shitty Zombie movies are there? Too many to count. How many really good ones are there? Little enough that you can count them on two hands.

I would LOVE to see a book about a war between Zombies and Unicorns. Somebody write it, quick!

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If anything zombies seems to be wearing out their welcome. I mean, how many times can you have a plague or spooky mist make people into the undead?

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YA, a refuge for stylish, elegant, imaginative prose.

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