Happy Halloween

And in the spirit of a Geeky Halloween, I present the Zombie Stormtrooper. Available November 2010, you can add this to any geek's Christmas pile who happens to enjoy both Zombies and Stormtroopers. The piece will set you back about $74.99, so this may have to be their big Santa item.

Apparently there more of them then I thought.

Zombieland

Horror movies reveal more than we like to admit.

In the ‘50s, we were facing alien invasion. In the ‘70s and ‘80s, slashers lurked at summer camp and in our dreams. In the ‘90s, psychosis ran amok. At the turn of the century, death, boggies, and ghosts tracked down wayward teens. And now in the new millennium, we face apocalyptic hordes of zombies. Different eras face different demons.

The demons personify our fears—our communal terrors. In the dark theater, we can band together to face our boogie men. Alien invasions were thinly disguised Soviets. Slashers reflected a growing intolerance of ‘immoral,’ ‘anti-social behavior’ (sex equals death). Vengeful ghosts and death batting clean up reminded us that our payments were due, fate had caught up with us.

And our 21st century zombies? Perhaps they are the lurking fear of our loss of humanity in the face of technology and big business. We are the pod people—although the pod looks and sounds a bit different than we were led to expect.

Zombieland laughs as our demons burst out of the closet--or in this case the public restroom trailing a piece of tp. Other worse fates await (the loneliness of life spent playing WoW or blogging).

Rent it. Watch it. Learn the rules. And be a hero.

Bayard

Robots feed off of Corpses and other Biomass

A few months ago, I found an article referencing 'zombie ants', and now I found one on "the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)™" that survive off of biomass material (including corpses.)

Why does this entire article make me think of 'Zombie Robots'?

Take a look here...

Okay, okay. Tomorrow, I will get back to more of our geek articles.

What the.......????

I personally think that Marvel may be over playing the whole "Zombie Universe." Not only are they coming out with a 4th mini-series - as if the 3rd mini-series wasn't bad enough, but now they are going to be selling more of the toys and paraphernalia to match the series. I didn't like the busts and statues when I saw them, and I definitely don't want a toy that looks like it is going to break before I even start to play with it.

I used to enjoy the Zombie concept, but now Marvel has ruined it for me. Time to find a new villain.

At least in the packaging, Spider-Man is holding his leg, but in actuality he should have been holding Mary Jane or Aunt May's half-eaten head.

What the...Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Finally a version of Pride and Prejudice I might actually read.

Editorial commentary from Amazon:

Product Description
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action.

About the Author
JANE AUSTEN is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. SETH GRAHAME-SMITH is the author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn. He lives in Los Angeles.

Kept seeing this on Twitter and thought it was a joke, but it looks like it is actually real. Go figure.

Unfortunately it's coming out too late for Valentine's Day. However, I still may have to buy this for my wife.

Sidebar: On a completely unrelated note, I just figured out the perfect Zimm comic: Marvel Zombies. They just need to do an ongoing and I'm sure he'd be all over that.