And there shall be...ZOMBIES.

Dude, let me tell you: I frikkin' LOVE zombies. I'm fascinated by them: what they look like, how they decompose, how they run/walk/crawl/grunt-with-gusto, and what the causes of "zombification" is from media to media, from work to work. Most of all, I love how zombies have been used to say things about society in general. I mean, yeah, zombies are also tasteless cultural trash (or something pretentious like that), but out of the classic Western horror monsters, zombies have been used to provide the most social commentary out of anything. There are some heavy themes in Frankenstein that you just don't see in Dracula. In Dawn of the Dead, a book is hiding. How would humans survive in a zombie apocalypse? How would we behave? In our moment of desperation, at the moment that we would most need order, would we give in, or hold strong?

Man, zombie movies are like a cultural test of what our fears are as a society. In the original "Night of the Living Dead," the cause was a radiation fallout. Today? Nine out of ten times, the cause of zombies nowandays is some kind of virus. Kind of telling, isnt' it?

And also, zombies can be funny and horrifying at the same time. This might sound messed up, but a decomposed body trying to run like a normal, healthy, living human can be pretty comedic. The imagery doesn't take itself seriously. There's some room for slapstick, for some macabre humor. And that, in a way, makes the situation even more horrifying in contrast.

There's versatility in zombie media. And if I didn't have such a distaste for movie gore, I might watch more of the films than I have. But I once saw "Night of the Living Dead" (the original) when I was about five,  and it scared the crap out of me. I love that movie. But that's another post!

I also love drawing zombies. My banner up there originally started out as a zombie drawing, that looked a little like me. So I decided to make it a zombified-me, but that didn't work out so well. Now...it just looks like me after a severe accident. Oh well. Anyhoo, here's the point of this post:

I love zombie comics that are intelligent. Rob Kirkman's "Walking Dead" is a great example of what I love about what you can do with zombie stories. It's essentially a brutal, extremist, merciless survivor story. What humans are really going to do at their breaking point. Its psychological, it's brutal, and it's funny at times. Also, unlike most zombie movies, you don't want to kill (mostly) the protagonists.

Anyhoo, that's all I got tonight. A little sketch for y'all.

Tomorrow: a logo!