Zombie Cliche Lookout:
Excitement is a dangerous thing. You get someone fixated enough on one thing, and they’re likely to start missing important information and making some pretty bad decisions. Do that in a disaster scenario (zombie or otherwise), and things can get really bad for them really quickly. If you throw in a few other factors, it can get even worse.
What sort of other factors? Well, consider that maybe people aren’t taking the “emergency” too seriously. If there’s not a lot of information, if the situation sounds suspicious, or the authorities aren’t defining it very well, people are apt to tune out. After all, a zombie uprising is likely going to be a pretty hard sell, both to the authorities and the general public. There’s often a notion that “This is probably just another drill” and people, consciously or not, can start ignoring the very real danger on their doorstep.
About this Episode:
I’m dropping some pretty big hints here, but the actual big reveal won’t be for another two episodes. My prediction: you guys will figure it out almost immediately, derailing any sort of tension I’m trying to spin up here. Ah well, that comes with the territory of doing a four-panel comic thrice weekly.
Other News:
I honestly have no idea what happened to my write-up here. It’s gone, so the comic went out without one. I apologize for that because it was most likely my fault (probably closed the page without saving or something stupid like that).
Discussion Question: Your Zombie Survival Mistake
Let’s say that we’re all at the beginning of a zombie movie. You know, the part of the movie where they have to kill off most of the living to show you how serious things have gotten. What do you think your potential fatal flaw is going to be? What’s going to get you eaten by zombies?
Hmm this episode is so exciting Dave forgot to write it up! 😀
Yeah… Not sure what happened to my write-up. I’ll put together a new one this morning.
Okay. Better late than never, right?
Some zombie probably ate it, figuring it was lunch! 😀
Regarding the discussion question I’d probably make the mistake of not equipping myself with a weapon right off. Bare hands and feet are not that effective against a zombie attack! 😀
My fatal flaw is probably that in any dangerous/uncertain situation, I get really hyper and OCD and will probably check all of my barricades and fortifications and if anyone in my house is bitten over a couple thousand times. That may sound good, but after the initial adrenaline wears off, I am super tired and sluggish, so if my quadruple checked barricade falls, I won’t have enough energy to get away.
Oh yeah, you’d be over focused on certain things, leaving you open to other stuff, and you’d only be able to keep that up so long.
my second fatal flaw is my love for weapons. In any video game I play, I love going all psyco with a light machine-gun or any other weapon, and would probably lose track of the situation where there is a lack of ammo and if I was on my own, I would run out of ammo and get bitten, if the typical Romero zombie was wandering around
Budgeting is very important, whether it be ammo or finances.
Dave… it’s a baby isn’t it? Man that would answer so much about Sam.
Hah, no comment.
Im with you 100% Angelina, shes pregnant. Nice little twist Dave, the grief and shock of losing your expecting wife (probably in a really ulgy manner even for the ZA) soon after the elation of learning you were going to be a dad would probably break the hardest of men much less poor ol Sam. In just a couple of episodes he goes from being a completely useless douche to having us all admire him for the amount of pure grit it must take just to keep moving at all. All of sudden Sam is interesting.
My flaw? Worrying about those around me. As people started to get picked off, I’d want to save them and get myseld bitten in the process. If I had my kid, I’d be the selfish bitch instead. Keeping him safe and getting out of there before he could get hurt. I’d make up for it later but I’d be hated right off the bat. lol
Awesome response, Angie. I think this is something that would get a lot of us.
I would probably be killed my me getting to close in my comfort zone and unexpectidly get attacked at the place where I called ‘Safe’.
That’s a classic right there Legomaster. Anything that’s “safe” is inherently dangerous in a zombie outbreak.
I’d call the 80-foot tall steampunk tarantula from the movie Wild Wild West “safe”. Also overkill for zombies, but hey at least you could safely keep out of reach of them, and given that, the zombies may as well be furnace fuel for the steam boiler on that steampunk creation! 😀
Is there such thing as safe once the zombies hit?
Not really. I meant more that people’s idea that something is safe.
No haven’t you learned anything from The Walking Dead.Hershals farm, the prison ect.
My flaw, assuming slow walker zombies – The sheer excitement that the zombie apocalypse has actually happened! I’d be too excited and distracted hitting zombies with a cricket bat one would sneek up on me.
But once bitten, would you want to be put out of your misery or would you prefer to come back as a zombie?
My kid once said that if I got bitten, he’d want to be bitten too so we could be zombies together. lol
I would want to be taken out. I’d hate to hurt those I love.
Hahaha! I have a zombie family dinner image thanks to that! How sweet!
If it was an arm or leg, is try chopping it off. Bit to the torso, I’d like to think I’d sacrifice myself to save others. Whether it happened or not is another thing altogether!
This conversation is very darkly amusing.
I’d ingest/inject the most exotic substances I could convince myself would help me, especially the blood of an other types of monster that are around such as vampire or werewolf or radioactive isotopes.
My big weakness would be trying to carry too many books. Most of them only useful to me such as RPG manuals.
My curiosity and the risky things I do because of it. Too many times do I put my self in possible harm just because I want to know what’s in that room, or what’s around that corner. I’m the guy that looks in the room where the killer is. But I do it with logic and rational.
Oh yeah, because you never know if something useful is just around the corner. Maybe some extra food, or a weapon.
Yep! I just have to know.. I just have to.
Video games have taught us all the importance of checking each room thoroughly. After you kill the monster of course. lol
Well it’s not that video games gave me that mentality, I’ve just always been naturally curious.
Hey, it’s better to check the room than turn your back on it unchecked…
For me, it would be kids. If I saw a kid wandering around outside, I’d probably be willing to put myself at more-than-usual risk in order to help the kid get to safety. The worst case scenario would be if I found a group of kids (like locked down in a school). Would I have the heart to *not* take them all with me. No way.
Kids are definitely a lot of people’s krptonite.
I’ve been away for some time, working on my latest video on my Youtube channel, which is promoting my Science teacher’s chance to get to space on the ‘Lynx Space Academy’ project. It’s animated with Lego, and I thought you all might like to see it. He has to be voted #1 to get to space, so his web page is in the video description.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YMCZcTwPqo
Nice! I like the cotton for smoke.
My biggest mistake would probably be that there are no rules in the ZA. Since most zombie-related games I play have many rules, I would probably not shine my flashlight because they aren’t allowed in Humans VS. Zombies, and one would sneak through the fog and eat my face.
I’m just a deep sleeper. Making me a midnight snackable
i know whats going on here, Sam pulled a “Quagmire” if anyone knows what i mean