American Movie Channel just made my list. Last year the big standout hit for the network was their TV series THE WALKING DEAD, based on the awesome ongoing comix book series by Robert Kirkman. The series which premiered on Halloween last year attracted 5.3 million viewers, its season finale drew more than 6 million. Its [...]
Its starting to look a lot like a Zombie Christmas
Yes its that time of the year. to also set the scene you might like to sing from Michael Spradlin’s book which takes two dozen christmas carols. Tiny tot’s eyes are no longer aglow, they’re in a bowl. Good King Wenceslas Tastes Great and we Deck The Halls With Parts Of Wally. You’ll find all [...]
‘Twas the NIGHT Before the uprising
Many thanks to Mira Grant the author of the excellent Feed & Deadline. Whose work I shameless recreate here T’was the night before Christmas when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouseThe boards had been nailed ‘cross the windows with careIn hopes that the dead would pass by, unaware.The children were sleeping -the [...]
Most fun to be had in a Zombie novel for a while
Any book which has George Romero honored as savior of humanity and talks about his shambling re-animated corpse locked in a government research centre is ahead in my book, abiet a severed and rotting head. FEED [...]
I see FEMA is taking it seriously
We’ve had a few natural disasters around us lately. The earthquake in New Zealand, flooding in the northeast of the state, bad electrical storms towards to South Australian border. Then for some reason a work colleague who recently moved to the Dandenongs and faces bushfire risks asked me about what should go into a Bug [...]
I don’t wanna have to do with out antibiotics
Early notice is a key strategy to surviving the zombie apocalypse. If you want to get clear of the cities in time, and by this I mean before the paths turn into a super rush hour deadlock, with extra emphasis on the DEAD. After all one man’s traffic jam is another zombies’ buffet. So I [...]
I bet you wish you’d thought of it
Last year Seth-Grahame Smith and Quirk books released the mash up hit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Given the elephant bucks it made, how little work it took to insert ninjas and zombies in to a long since out of copywrite text Quirk went on to try to fill a whole shelf load of these, [...]
My spoiler free review of ZOMBIELAND
It’s AWESOME, go see it. In fact is its so AWESOME for the next month I’ll be attempting to use Woody Harrelson’s character’s catch phrase “Time to nut up, or shut up” as often as I can when I post. For those overseas readers who think Australia is some tropical paradise I would reveal as [...]
