Zombie Apocalypse * Zombie Slave Leia * Fido * Apple Invasion * Naked Ape * 30 Days of Night * Zombie American * Zombie Emergency Defense Program

It’s Blog Like It’s the End of the World Day! Everybody Panic!

You can keep up with my ongoing entry here.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Zombies are the new Black. Marvel Zombies are great, Zombie Superman is (in good ole ObZomb’s opinion) even cooler, but now what we’ve got here is a straight up winner! Zombie Slave Leia. I’m not even worthy enough to bask in the gory glory of her shadow. What’s next, zombie Scooby Doo? I said it first, you’re my witness… so if it happens, I want cash!

Just a reminder for all y’all undead lovin’ individuals. The new ZombComâ„¢ flick FIDO is coming out on Friday. You’ll remember from the last round-up that FIDO is about a world filled with domesticated zombies. Billy Connolly plays Fido with Carrie-Anne Moss as his owner.

What some have estimated to be a crowd of nearly 150 *zombies* took to the streets and terrorized the citizenry of San Francisco, Ca. After the mob converged in a central square, the decided (how they had enough brain power left for decision-making is beyond me) to storm local businesses, including the flagship Apple store. See, my brethren have taste in tech as well as brains!

Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s masterwork of vampire fiction 30 Days of Night is nearly here people. Sony Pictures just posted a great little teaser trailer, and I command you to view it as soon as humanly (or otherwisely) possible. The movie opens this October 19.

What happens when Swedish electronica meets zombies? Well, when melody makers Naked Ape got together with indie film unit Zombie Duck, things got bloody hot and wet!

Check it out here: Fashion Freak (NSFW)

Let’s catch up on the latest in undead jollies, shall we? Continuing where we left off, here are the next two segments of Zombie American.

Zombie American, Chapter 2
Zombie American, Chapter 3

And for good measure, here’s a bit of the Brit I that found while trolling around on MySpace:

Zombie Roommate

A Comic Shop in Winter Park, Florida, had boldly declared their base of operations (read: a comic shop) a zombie-free zone. This past April 24th they officially announced Z.E.D. — the Zombie Emergency Defense Program. With rally cries of “When the Zombie Apocalypse Comes, We Will Be Prepared!” and “Better Z.E.D. then dead!.” They’ve taken it upon themselves to ready a makeshift militia and began practicing defense scenarios in advance of the ‘impending infestation’ (which according to the blogsphere is happening right now!)

In fact, on June 24th, they will be taking up arms and spending the day shooting down some of the unfortunate undead (hey, suddenly I don’t know if I’m okay with all this ZED business!).

Also coinciding with Z.E.D., they’re sponsoring a zombie themed short-film contest/festival. Good ole ObZomb will keep you updated as the finalists and winners are chosen.

–Obvious Zombie

My Monstrous Militia,

Dead, nearly dead, and undead alike rejoice, ’cause it’s that time of the month again. Time take a look the latest group o’ gangrenous guts being gouged from the gullet and strewn about for all to see.

Later is Now, Baybah!
In case you had forgotten, 28 Weeks Later opens today and ObZomb (that’s me) says ‘Yes, yehaw, and yahoo!’ I cannot wait to feast my rotting ocular nerves upon what’s sure to be an awesomely good rip ’em up. I’m hoping we’ll get to see glimmers of Robert Carlyle’s genius turn (IMHO) as Colqhoun in Ravenous show through a bit in 28 Weeks… man, that movie creeped me out!

Move Over Bicentennial Man
It’s the 1950s and the great Zombie war has been waged — and won. Apparently some asteroid passed the earth, raised the dead, and broke loose some hell. With the zombies effectively beaten, a meglo-corporation figures out how to tame them, and begins marketing them as domestic servants. This is the premise of Fido, starring Billy Connelly as the eponymous zombie, and Carrie-Ann Moss as the seemingly generic ’50s housewife. Lions Gate Pictures, after watching the trailer, I could kiss you! Like ObZomb (me again) said in the previous Zombie Round-Up, Zombie comedy, or ZombCom (a term I am coining and copyrighting RIGHT the F NOW!) is a genre that transcends the cultural divide, and this one looks hella funny!

Un-Dead at 30,000 Feet
Ok, now if you thought snakes on planes were bad enough, then check this shit out. New Line Cinema is set to distribute a movie that revolves around an in-flight zombie attack. The film from director Scott Thomas was internationally released with the title Plane Dead, but New Line has taken it upon themselves to re-title it Flight of the Living Dead. The way I see it you’re either someone who wants to see a movie about zombies on a plane or you don’t, so at this point I think the title is pretty irrelevant. I think the tagline speaks for itself: Un-Dead at 30,000 Feet.

Non-Zombie, but Relevant
The Hollywood Reporter is, um, reporting that ZombCom masters, brothers Peter and Michael Spierig, are working on a futuristic vampire flick with Weta Workshop handling the monster and effects duty, and Ethan Hawk in the star chair. As long as the brothers can keep each other from losing their unique sense of style, unlike some other brother/director team *cough* Matrix *hacks*, this should be an interesting movie. The feature is tentatively titled Daybreakers.

And lastly, some funny… or DIE!

La presenta: Zombie-American

Thanks to Dr. Geek for bringing this gem to good ol’ ObZomb’s attention!

This week in zombie comic news.

Raise the Dead #2 — Arthur Suydam’s cover is reason enough to pick up this one. It’s like Norman Rockwell on crack. It’ll be for sale as a poster in July, but you can order it now here.

Marvel Zombies: Dead Days — With Robert Kirkman pen and Sean Phillips ink, this one-shot prequel to the best-selling Marvel Zombies series can’t help but be a grizzly, tasty morsel….mmmm, brains. And again, Arthur Suydam’s cover alone, a homage to X-Men #1, Vol. 2, makes this a worthwhile book to snag.

Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life hits the shelves. The TPB collects issues #31-36 of the Kirkman zombie saga, and totals out to 136 pages of gray, gory, goodness.

Black Panther #27-29 — Marvel Zombies will be making some waves in the Wakandian king’s pool. Check out the current Black Panther arc (#27-29) to see the newly juxtaposed Fantastic Four tangle with some Galactus fueled super-zombies.

Sincerely sick,
Obvious

“This is a new James Bond, a rough-and-tumble one, unlike any of the previous five incarnations of the suave playboy spy. Craig’s Bond is brutal, violent, gritty, a cold-blooded killer. Craig spends half the movie covered in blood and scars.”

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Got this one from the Geeks of Doom newsletter. The word on the street is that they’ll be selecting a winning caption and awarding some undisclosed prize. I know that if anyone out there can make this comic funny, it’s us diggers. Let’s see what you got!

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Controversy runs rampant at GoD H.Q.!!

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“… for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.”

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Gather together fellow flesh fiends,Today is a very special anniversary for me. A few years ago today, I changed the course my life dramatically.

After many years of being trapped by my own stupidity, I finally sobered up to the fact that my life was headed in the absolute wrong direction, with the absolute wrong ***.

Things that I always knew had to change but was content to be lulled into complacency by, became unbearable.

I died, yet I lived. But what kind of life was I living?

I had been living my life as a zombie far longer than I had been previously willing to admit.

Zombie eater, zombie smoker, zombie worker, zombie ***.

It wasn’t obvious at the time. That’s why it had so much power, so much control. The subliminal said, You do what I say you do, and I did it unquestioningly.

There’s no need to revisit the cause of my awakening. The world has already seen fit to take care of that, ad nauseam.

Cause be damned!

The necessary changes have been made. Thanks to my wife. Always thanks to her. My heart, my friend, my strength.

I’m thankful for every smoke-free, vegan, successful website-running, day that I am able to share with her!

My beautiful, wonderful, caring, partner in life.

I died, yet I live on. No longer unaware of my former Zombie status. Thanks to the most heartbreaking moment of my generation, the Zombie generation, it all became quite Obvious to me.

You have no power over me.

-Obvious

In a follow-up to one of Geeks of Doom’s most commented news story, Empress Eve reveals the CW’s complete starting line-up for the fall television season.

As we all know, the CW will be replacing both the existing UPN and The WB networks this fall. Well, their fall schedule has been finalized, and here are all the names and dates of the full premiere line-up. Check it out and see if any of your favorite shows survived the merge.

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Food,

Thanks to slashfilm, I was made aware of two things.

One very cool, one not so much.

First the not so much.

The Hollywood rumor mill has churned out yet another stinking wad of green, glowing, throat-gunk. According to an article on the afore mentioned slashfilm website, Denzel Washington had been spoken in the same sentence as ‘rumored to play Master Chief in the upcoming HALO movie.’ Let me cap this off with a disclaimer- Zombie Love Denzel, but having hard time envisioning him as Zombie’s beloved M.C.

Please, let this remain a rumor.

And second, if you look at the bottom of each of my entries, you’ll notice the addition of a cool iPodish icon that says Listen to this podcast… well, go ahead, listen. I followed a link on Slashfilm to their audio broadcast of the Denzel rumor entry and wound-up at Talkr.com. They have a free service that translates text entries to speech for podcasting and/or the visually impaired.

I signed up and installed a WP plug-in, and seconds later all of my entries were made available as mp3 files.

Quite cool, ja?

So begins an era of my thoughts being read aloud by a computerized woman.

-Obvious, and my feminine, binary-type accompaniment