The illustrated dead

What’s your favorite zombie comic/graphic novel?

Ours, hands down, I believe?

The Walking Dead.

It’s… 10 or so 50-page volumes. Great characters. Masterful story arc. Freaky zombie bits. Who could ask for more?

A&E agrees with us because it’s about to become a TV series.

Check it out, and please recommend others you like in the comments.

Also: Come see Monstoberfest. It’s happening this 2010. Buy a ticket. If you’re reading this in 2011 +, you can bet it’s still happening. Go to www.hugetheater.com.

2010 Fringe Implosion

Dangerers,

Things are starting to gear up for the 2010 Creature Feature. Eeeever so slowly. We have a performance date at Patrick’s Cabaret in September where we will be playing both as Undead Plague and The Adventures of Tim, Troy and Damian. More to come.

AND

All three of us are in the 2010 MN fringe.

TROY is singing in an a capella zombie musical: Zombie High School

DAMIAN is rhyming couplets in an improvised myth: The Quest

TIM is a drunk teen in the Ferrari McSpeedy (Mike Fotis/Joe Bozic) show: Speech!

Buy tickets now.

Where are these pancakes going?!!?

We are ten years from this being done on the nano level and then:”Hmm… Should I play God? Oh! Hello, zombies. Coffee, tea, OR ME?“

It’s good to cross-train

Greetings Jr. Survivors. We’re normally all about zombies here, but studying these werewolf defense training videos may help you avoid MONSTER MYOPIA.

They seem to be lifted from a VHS made in 1992, but video #1 mentions the Department of Homeland Security, so this is clearly a hoax. YET EVEN HOAXES CAN BE VALUABLE.

You see how I gleaned a small detail and gained a valuable insight? You should learn how to do that too.

Another flash game

Infectionator: World Dominator

Retro. Fun. Happy time wasting.

TED: Words to avert the apocolypse

http://www.ted.com/

I think one reason people obsess over a possible apocalypse is because we don’t feel like it’s all that far away sometimes. It probably won’t really be zombies, but, you know…

This site has a series of 15ish minute talks by some of the most interesting people in the world, and is a wonderful antidote when the more real, less silly fears start to bug you.

Try one. You’ve got just enough time before the Tylenol PM kicks in.

Bad Decisions

This is funny and a polished-f-ing web comic:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/zombie_how

Bad decisions in horror movies are not so far from real life, sometimes. I saw William Saturno give a lecture a few years ago. He got into all the papers because he found some Mayan Murals. I loved his description of how he and his guides managed to get stranded and almost-dead in the Guatemalan jungle in the process:

“How one gets two days into the woods without food or water is, you make a bad decision. But that’s not enough, because there are opportunities to turn back, and you simply don’t. You need to make a series of bad decisions. In fact, you need to be committed to making bad decisions again and again and again, and then you need to put your faith in other people who also make many, many bad decisions. It’s not easy, but we did it.”

Zombie Emergency Plowing Rules

A Zombie Emergency will be declared no later than 6 p.m. on any given day. At 9 p.m. on that day, Zombie Emergency Plowing rules begin.

Hide on Day 1 on either side of non-zombie Emergency routes (these streets DO NOT have the red sign: Zombie Emergency Route).

Do not hide on either side of the street with the red sign: Zombie Emergency Route. Zombie hunters will clear (shoot  anything that moves) on those streets first.

After a street is fully plowed to the curb, feel free to escape via this street, even if Zombie Emergency rules are still in effect.

Fully plowed means the street is completely cleared of zombies all the way to the curb. Zombie hunters may come through more than once, so make sure that it is fully plowed to the curb before escaping.

Damian’s Favorite Zombie Flash Game

Yes. There is always box head…

But this one’s my favorite. It’s called The Last Stand.

We’d love to hear your favorite.

<3 Damian

Zombie Nazis, Gay/Straight Alliance

a. This Daily Show clip about the Berlin Wall has a good joke involving zombie nazis 7 min 30 seconds in.

b. Tim is performing in the Splendid Things Show at the Bryant Lake Bowl. It’s every Monday. You liked us every Friday in October? You can see hiiiiiiigh qualiteeeeeee improv (Splendid Things plus a guest group) every Monday. And go see Tim and Doug Neithercott as the Gay/Straight Alliance this particular Monday.