The Walking Dead: Book 1 Review

So after reading book 1 of The Walking Dead I have to say that I'm kind of mad at myself for not getting into this graphic novel sooner. I was never able to get my self fully into comics and graphic novels at an earlier age. My friends were not really into them so I never was properly introduced and shown the ropes. I loved watching cartoons of comic book heroes like: X-Men, Spiderman, Batman, etc... but I figured getting into the comic books wouldn't be worth it, especially if I wanted to start from the beginning. There are all kinds of authors, artists, and it just seemed like a lot to follow.

The Walking Dead sparked interest in me when a friend of mine posted a video trailer for the show that's coming out on AMC on Halloween. It kind of reminded me of the 28 Days Later plot.

The book that I've been providing links and pictures of is Book 1. Now there are technically two book ones for this series. There is Book 1 which is the first story, which consists of the first six comics. Then there's book 1 which is the first two stories which consists of comics 1-12. It's really weird to explain how they do it. I guess a little bit of research won't help haha. But it's simple. I rather not explain fully because I'm more than likely to get you over confused with something so little.

I ordered the hard cover book 1 and said I was ordering 1 and 2, but I didn't I wanted to see how the first book went and now I'm kicking myself in the ass. I'm probably going to start buying the individual stories to collect the books as one instead of combining two books in one. The soft covers are the individual stories and the hard covers have cool concept art at the end.

The Walking Dead is a very well written graphic novel. It's a story of survival during a zombie apocalypse. During the first two stories, "Days Gone By" and "Miles Behind Us". The story kind of gives me a Romero feeling. It's not a comical or happy kind of story. It's got a lot of fucked up things going on, and some incidents that surprise you.

The main character is Rick. Rick is a cop who gets shot and falls unconscious and wakes up in a hospital bed. After calling for help, he gets out of his bed only to find out that in his area of the hospital, he is alone. Eventually Rick goes on to find out that not only is the hospital abandoned, but his whole town is as well.

Rick goes back home to find his wife and kid, and they're gone too. Ricks main goal is to find his wife and son, and he won't stop at it until he does.

Rick is the good guy. He kind of reminds of Jack from Lost. He's always trying to do good and help out. If you have or have not read it, you'll eventually see what I mean.

The artwork is awesome even though it's in black and white.



I can't wait to pick up some more books and read them. It's one of those zombie stories where you get a great dosage of drama, action, great artwork and forth. Hopefully the show doesn't stray away from the stories. The stories are definitely good enough and should not be tampered with.
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DEAD RISING 2 THIS TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing Interesting Today

Let's take a minute to ask ourseves... "Do I have a plan for ZA?"


Sure, it's simple to say that were gonna rob a gun store and get an infinity amount of ammo, and just spray the shit out of some zombies with an AK or a shotgun. Unfortunately that's not how it's going to go at all. In fact, I think it's time for our fellow zombie people to start thinking more creatively than just using guns. We play video games like Dead Rising, we watch movies like Shaun of the Dead, we read all of the zombie novels out there, and we listen to zombie podcasts like You've Got Dead on You. A lot of these media's teach us how to destroy zombies in more unique ways. Search your house for useless things that can be turned into something that can penetrate zombie flesh.


FOR CHRIST SAKE GET A PLAN!!!!

Seriously though...

Gather friends and/or family and then plan this out.

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READING THIS: The Walking Dead: Book One

Zombie Ants are the Walking Dead!!!!!!!!!

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa long time no blog!!!! Sorry guys! I've been busy with some things and yet again been feeling under the weather. I'm feeling pretty good right now so that's all that matters. I've never gone this long (17 days haha) without blogging something.

~There's oh so much to talk about~

Dead Rising 2

I've talked a lot about this game in the past and I was highly anticipating the games release at the end of August. Wellllllllllllll apparently I was completely uninformed that the game was pushed back one more month. Instead of it being released August 31st, it was going to be released on September 28th. BUT, on August 31st they had released a downloadable content called DEAD RISING 2 CASE ZERO for the Xbox 360 (don't know about PS3). This was pretty bad ass. It's not just a demo, it's a full blown game that parts with the actual game that comes out in a few weeks. I was in zombie destroying heaven. The cool thing is, you can create weapons. I took a bat and some nails and made like a Hellraiser Pinhead bat. There's also circular saws that you can throw that can take out a few zombies depending where you throw it. I also got my hands on a drill bit. YES! A fucking drill bit! Unfortunately I didn't fully play the game. I played about 5 minutes of it before I had to go cater to some friends who kept begging me to jump on Call of Duty.

Now just like any popular franchise game that comes out, there's always going to be a special edition or collectors edition with awesome cool accessories that I'm probably never going to need but it's cool to have them anyway kind of thing. Well Dead Rising 2 has 3 different collectors edition sets but only 2 are worth talking about.

Zombrex Collectors Edition

The Zombrex Collectors Set Comes With:

• Exclusive Two-Disc Steelbook case includes:
  • Dead Rising 2 game disc
  • High-Definition game disc with 83 Minute "Zombrex Dead Rising Sun" motion picture and 24 minute "Making of" featurette
• Complete box contents include:
  • Steelbook case (described above)
  • Zombrex "Syringe" pen
  • Zombrex "Prescription" notepad (25 pages)
  • Zombrex "Safety" card
  • Zombrex "Prospectus" Sales Brochure (16 pages)
  • Dead Rising 2 Hardback Artbook (48 pages)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HIGH STAKES EDITION
  
  
  
  
  
  • Dead Rising® 2 for your PS3 or Xbox 360
  
  
  • Custom Fortune City Poker Set including:
    • Custom matte black Fortune City Poker Case
    • 100 Fortune City Poker Chips in 4 different colors
    • 2 sets custom blood-stained Fortune City Playing Cards featuring character art
    • 1 blood stained Dealer Chip
    • 5 green Dice
  • Fortune City Visitor Map including ads for Fortune City locations and attractions
  • 1 Terror Is Reality XVII admission ticket with code for exclusive Psycho DLC
    costume and skills set
  • One Dead Rising® 2 High Stakes Edition includes a special "golden" ticket redeemable for Burt The Zombie - a 6’ OxMox zombie replica!!

  I ordered both box sets because I'm a fool and I need cool things like poker chip sets and syringe pens. I'll eventually sell one of my Xbox 360 games to someone without all the cool things that come with it.

  
  

  Zombrex Collectors Edition is at www.deadrising-2.net

  
  

  High Stakes Edition is at www.capcom.com

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  The Earliest Evidence of Zombies

  By Rebecca L. Brown

  Evidence of ‘zombie ants’ dating back forty eight million years has been identified from the Rhine Rift Valley, Germany. The evidence, a series of cuts on fossilised leaves which were recently uncovered by researchers, match those made by modern carpenter ants infected with the fungus Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis. This parasitic fungus enters the ants as spores and then alters their behaviour to further it’s own spread and growth before killing off the host and producing more spores. Infected ants bite into the undersides of leaves in specific locations, a behaviour which does not seem to occur in uninfected ants.
  
  Find out more about these ancient zombie ants and their modern counterparts athttp://www.nature.com/news/2010/100817/full/news.2010.415.html?s=news_rss.

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  This Halloween is going to be a very very good one. I was recently informed by a friend that there's going to be a Walking Dead television series. Honestly being the horror fan that I am, I was kind of unfamiliar with the whole Walking Dead comics/books/graphic novels (whatever you want to refer to them as).

  
  

  Then I saw this

  
  

  
  

  As soon as I saw that, I ordered this

  
  

  The Walking Dead: Book One

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  The Walking Dead: Book Two

  
  

  
  

  Book One has the first 12 issues, and Book Two has 13-24. I'll eventually order the others but of course, I'll start off with these.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Well that's it for now guys.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Arty

Shooting Zombies in VEGAS!!!!

Hello fellow friends!!!!!!!!!

Just a real quick post here. If you're a Youtube channel internetard like I am, then you'd probably know who Charles Trippy and Ali Speed (aka Internet Killed Television). I've been a fan of these guys for a little over a year now and just recently they took a trip to Las Vegas for Alli's 21st birthday party. While they were down there, they came across this gun shop that had all kinds of cool guns you could shoot. They had the average guns we know of to high tech guns, and guns dating all the way back from World War 2! In the shooting range they let you pick a gun package and your own target to shoot at! There were tons of zombies, zombie clowns, murderers, terrorists, etc... but of course being the professionals that they are, they chose the zombie package!

Watch below!!!

Definitely looks like a good time, and I'm definitely hitting that place up when I go to Las Vegas. It just might be the only chance I'll ever get to take a shot at a zombie... til the apocalypse comes!!!!!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH

Happy Friday the 13th everyone! Friday the 13th's aren't as cool as they used to be though. I remember back in the day (early 90's era) when they used to play a lot, and I mean A LOT of horror movies on all channels to celebrate Friday the 13th. I mean some people think it's only fitting to watch the Friday the 13th movies, but not me.

I'll throw a quick random list out there for you, maybe to help you mix it up a bit!

ICE CREAM MAN

This was a cool movie I picked up at Blockbuster video back when it was cool to rent vhs tapes. It's a little under budgeted but it has Clint Howard (Ron Howards brother) in it and that guy is awesome. He's played in like 300 something movies I think... I dunno, but check this movie out if you can.

EVIL DEAD 2

The sequel to Sam Raimi's first amazing movie, The Evil Dead. The reason I picked the 2nd one is because it's my personal favorite of the 3 movies, and it introduces you to the chainsaw hand, and it's the prequel to Army of Darkness.

POLTERGEIST 2

It looks like I'm picking sequels here haha. I'm not! I thought the first Poltergeist was the best of the 3 but the 2nd movie has Kane. Kane is the evil man with the big toothy grin who's always walking along the sidewalks singing some song. He eventually goes to the house and wants to see Carol Ann but of course they make him leave. And how could you not be creeped out by that midget lady?

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

I don't think I need to explain this movie at all. This was an awesome movie to watch on Friday the 13th. It never gets old. Klowns from outer space, killing people, and stuffiing them into human size cotton candy bags. AWESOME!

PLANET TERROR

Ok I wasn't making this mini list without a zombie movie. It's debatable whether or not you'd want to consider these creatures zombie like, but all I'm saying is the kid who put a bullet through his head comes back haha. Whatever, this movie seems like it's been sitting on the shelf for a while, and it's definitely not one to ignore for too long. It's the better movie of the Grindhouse series so give throw it in the mix!

Not the greatest movie selection for a Friday the 13th night but no one said you had to listen to me!!!!

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Eyes shrink to pinpoints,

The deeply crimson scent flooding flaring nostrils.
There is a madness in the metallic tang
Which overwhelms her
Swallowing her up.
With numb, uncaring fingers
She claims her prize.

By. Rebecca Brown

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So I think I might have posted something on here or on Facebook about a Zombie Walk in the state of New Jersey and I didn't know if it was going to happen or not until my friend showed me a flyer that was being handed out at the Mayhem Festival. Well they're doing a Zombie Walk in Asbury Park, New Jersey on October 30th. The cool thing about this though is that it's actually all part of "ZombieCon" I think this is the first zombie convention that I've heard of and that's so fucking cool!

Anyways, I requested a single merchandise table even though I'm not selling anything. I was going to set up a table with some free Zombie Digest stickers and buttons if they filled out the mailing list shit and took a flyer. There will eventually be merchandise stuff like that. Hopefully switching this site over to a www.zombiedigest.com too. Wouldn't that be friggin sweet? Soon soon soon. I'm just happy to see my state doing something so cool other than womens golfing tournaments and people making a big deal about Snooki sightings.

Until next time

KEEP SURVIVING!

UPDATE August 3, 2010

OPENING WORD

Ok so it's been a while since I did a small update. I did the book review and then I introduced a new writer to our page, Rebecca L Brown. She's a very talented writer and I'm very ecstatic that she's going to be writing and contributing to the page. I originally thought her first post was a created story of her own but it ended being true, which was awesome. It just goes to show that she's writes well.

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NIGHT OF THE DEMONS REMAKE

So I may have or may not have talked about this in the past. If I have just read it again damnit! I don't know if anyone knows about the old 80's and 90's horror film collection called NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2. If you went to blockbuster in the early 90's then you'd know these movies were a smash hit in the horror section. Every week I'd go to rent one and they'd either be gone or the dude at Blockbuster video wouldn't let me rent it because I was only 7 years old.

The first movie was about a bunch of teens who are all dressed up for halloween and are ready to party. They end up choosing an abandoned funeral home called Hull House to throw the party at. The kids start to party, people turn into demons, and people die. That's about it.

There weren't any big named actors except for the blonde chick in the second one. I don't know her name off the bat but she's married to Ben Stiller. The first NOTD seemed low budgeted and poorly shot with terrible voice overs in some spots. BUT!!!! the movie had some awesome make work to it. I eventually watched both on Halloween one year because they played both movies back to back.

ANYWAYS......... They filmed a remake in 2008/2009 and it's finally being released in October. Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie) is going to be playing the main demon girl named Angela and Edward Furlong (American History X and Terminator 2) has some kind of role in it as well. I'm hoping the writers stuck with the story and didn't use any cheesy CGI to ruin the movie. Too many movies rely on CGI. There is no word whether it will be released on DVD right away or if it will be put into select theaters. Originally it was supposed to be DVD release but being that they're waiting for October, it could have a theatrical presentation.

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Nothing crazy going on right now. I was under the weather for a few weeks with migraines. Long story short, I did something stupid and paid the price. But I'm feeling better so it's fine. Expect some more posts from me soon and definitely Rebecca as well.

btw is anyone going to this in NJ?

http://www.monstermania.net/

Clairvius Narcisse; Haitian Zombie?

Clairvius Narcisse; Haitian Zombie?

By. Rebecca L. Brown

Clairvius Narcisse was declared dead on the 2nd May 1962 and yet in 1980 he returned to his home, the village of I’Estere in Haiti with an almost unbelievable story of magic and zombies. Could Narcisse and others like him truly be the walking undead?

After investigating reports of ‘zombies‘ (including Narcisse and a handful of others), researchers believed that Narcisse was given a dose of ’zombie powder’, a mixture containing tetrodotoxin (pufferfish venom) and bufotoxin (toad venom), by a ‘sorcerer’ to induce a coma which mimicked the appearance of death. He was then allowed to return to his home where he collapsed, ‘died’ and was buried. His body was then recovered and he was given doses of datura stramonium to create a compliant zombie-like state and set to work on a plantation. After two years, the plantation owner died and Narcisse simply walked away to freedom and spent the next sixteen years of his life trying to return home.

It was explained that Narcisse had broken one of many traditional behavioural codes and was made into a ‘zombie’ as a punishment; when questioned, Narcisse told investigators that the sorcerer involved had ‘taken his soul’.

But was any of this true? Traces of ‘zombie powder’ presented for analysis were found to contain varying amounts of tetrodotoxin; whilst some samples could have caused death-like comas, others were unlikely to have had the reported effect or indeed any effect at all.

The original researchers argued that cultural beliefs played a role in reinforcing the action of the chemicals. In Haitian culture, there is a widespread belief in the existence of zombies. Narcisse reported that he had heard doctors declare him dead and had been aware of being buried and exhumed. If all evidence suggested he was a zombie, why should he believe any differently? It is impossible to confirm Narcisse’s story but it would seem likely that creating a zombie-like state would be possible through the processes described.

Would ‘zombies’ created in this way be classed as undead though? As Narcisse was never actually dead in the first place, only unconscious, the answer is no. The Haitian ‘zombies’, then, were never truly reanimated despite their return from beyond the grave.

Rebecca L. Brown is a British writer. She specialises in horror, SF, humour, surreal and experimental fiction, although her writing often wanders off into other genres and gets horribly lost. For updates and examples of Rebecca’s work, visit her Twitter page @rlbrownwriter or her blog Bewildering Circumstances ( http://bewilderingcircumstances.blogspot.com/ )