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When the Zombie War starts, would one be better off giving in early and becoming a zombie as soon as possible? I mean, what is the fight of trying to prolong the inevitable?

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

versus NINJAS!!!!

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m7/irishkorean/Chuck-Norris-Photograph-C12141670.jpg

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

How bad does zombie bite hurt?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://stb.msn.com/i/1B/56E152B2C13FA83B419772CE8E557.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

skinhead negro!!!!!lol

― bold (bold), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, think of all the fun to be had with killing zombies. That's reason enough to not wanna be a zombie for a good long while.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: killing zombies vs. being zombie and sneaking up on and biting the non-zombies.

If you get in early, there's more of the latter to be had. But if you're a holdout, there are more zombies to kill as you go.

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

star wars dot kevin smith

― dunking doughnuts (get bent), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally want to be a hold-out and kill zombies; being a zombie souns awful. I think I can rely on friends to make sure I don't come back as a zombie if it comes to that (I'm counting on you, Dan Perry).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr. Jaq says the zombie does not actively enjoy the sneaking up on and biting of the non-zombie, that it is instinctual reflex only. This is a point to the side of staying a non-zombie, imo.

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(disclosure: I do not watch zombie movies whatsoever, except possibly in the privacy of my own couch with my own pillows in front of my face in case of terror emergency)

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

and what, Passantino, jbr OTM.

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

But zombie fiction tends to be good exercise in post-apoc scenarios, just to show how quickly humans turn to screwing over each other.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.samruby.com/Series/MarvelZombies/Large/MarvelZombies2.jpg

One of the best comic miniseries of 06. Out in collected paperback now.

― ian (orion), Thursday, 28 December 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^ true dat

I know exactly where I am going when the zombies come. If you are nice I will bring you with me.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 28 December 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm nice, bring me. Where is it?

I have a feeling that the best thing to do, and I've thought about this a lot, would be to take some suicide pills, wall yourself up in your house, and bite them. That way you will be dead and the zombies will not get you.

I went through a period of being afraid of walking on the beach in the very early morning, because I worried that zombies would walk out of the sea. Thanks, Max.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 28 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I just finished reading World War Z. I was thinking it was too bad we never got a chapter from the point of view of a zombie but it probably would have just been pages full of "nnngghh aaahhhnggg nhhunnnggghhh" so it's probably for the best.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a shame that the World War Z blog is just full of pics of people pretending to be zombies in a chortlesome manner, as opposed to "OMG THEY ARE OUTSIDE! I don't know if the door will last until I run out of food".

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my comic-book-knowledge friends totally put down 'marvel zombies'! and then said: 'If you want to read zombie related comics, read The Walking Dead.'

zombies freak me out. a lot.
i wld totally kill them before they kill me though.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Walking Dead is good. Marvel Zombies is FUN!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i am a fan of fun! my friend is skeptical about this 'fun'

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

But then you will become a Zombie!

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I just posted the zombie survival assessment test on another thread, how inappropriate of me. Here: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/worldwarz/

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing about zombie holocaust scenarios, aside from the fanboy-ish indulgences derided upthread, is that it can provide a good thought experiment applicable in real-world situs. For example, how _would_ you handle several million refugees in North America?

The WWZ book does go into some nice touches about the logistical part, e.g. w/ folks streaming up into Northern Canada and eventually having to survive on whatever they could burn since all the wood was cut down long ago, or the return to New Deal policies in order to survive.

I did like the bit in the book about the re-organized army groups setting up in Napoleanic-era battle squares, listening to "The Trooper" to get pumped up before blasting away.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Hm. 42% chance of survival, possibly due to trying to get to the Canadian Artic via bicycle.

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Walking Dead starts to get old about 20 issues in or so. TOO SOAP OPERA-ISH, NOT ENOUGH ZOMBIE KILLINZ.

― ian (orion), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i am closer to the cdn artic! and i have a bicycle! and i am good at camping! and i have never even held a gun! my odds are maybe low but my desire to liive is strong.
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i do like soap opera-ish comics though, but i also like gross killinz for sure

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

But then you will become a Zombie!

I thought you only became a zombie if they bit you? When I said "bite them", I meant bite the pills, not the zombies.

I don't want to be a zombie. I would hold out.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian, you're right, but it's started to pick up A LOT since then. Around #26-27, I think, when some folks leave the compound, & hijinks ensue.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying to think of how many Mike Mignola books involved zombies. The undead did result in one great recent line from Hellboy, something like "You can't scare me! I've been drinking with SKELETONS!"

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

they fight skeletal pirates in the belly of a big kirby monster in the hellboy/savage dragon x-over

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Walking Dead starts to get old about 20 issues in or so. TOO SOAP OPERA-ISH, NOT ENOUGH ZOMBIE KILLINZ.

Yeah and it's bad soap opera. We ain't talking about Gilbert Hernandez here.

(sorry Daver I'm off the train)

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you only became a zombie if they bit you?

This is the Great Debate. Sometimes it seems like zombification is transmitted by a viral infection, requiring a zombie bite for it to be be passed on. But sometimes it seems like all the dead come back to life as zombies, irrespective of how they died. I think there may be variant forms of the virus, with some being air borne but not lethal (i.e. everyone carries the plague but it is only when you die of other reasons that you are reanimated) while others are more lethal but require closer contact for transmission.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Friday, 29 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

well surely it's just down to the author of the specific work of fiction. The Romero series is viral indeed, people only turn to zombies if they've had some sort of blood (or saliva?) exchange with another zombie.
I've only just got hold of the WWZ book, so I've yet to discover how Brooks deals with this particular aspect.

and 'biting' suicide pills? what a strange verb choice.

― Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Fiction?

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

and 'biting' suicide pills? what a strange verb choice.

I have often seen them depicted as little glass ampules on which you have to bite down hard in order to trigger them. I guess that's what I was thinking of.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I would prefer to be a relaxed zombie that doesn't have to go anywhere. Surely there is a niche for this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

All's I'm gonna say about Walking Dead is that y'all what leapt off the bandwagon missed a hand-chopping, dick-stabbing, and an eye-gouging (w/ spoon).

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Simultaneously?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

READ & FIND OUT

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

>> This is the Great Debate. Sometimes it seems like zombification is transmitted by a viral infection, requiring a zombie bite for it to be be passed on. But sometimes it seems like all the dead come back to life as zombies, irrespective of how they died.

This is Night Of The Living Dead vs Return Of The Living Dead innit?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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