Zombie Cliche Lookout: And Then?
One of the most fun things about imagining a zombie apocalypse is to come up with all sorts of survival plans. It is, of course, nothing more than a thought exercise. Zombies aren’t real, and even if they were, your plans would likely quickly unravel. After all, no plan survives contact with the enemy. In Bricks of the Dead, I’m operating on the assumption that, in this world, there isn’t really any zombie fiction. That means people don’t make zombie survival plans. They might be robot survival plans, or dinosaur survival plans, but that hasn’t really come up in the course of their discussion. This, then, is the closest approximation I can manage.
About this Episode:
I had fun with that last panel. Jess definitely has some big plans for Gus, and that shotgun figures into them prominently.
Other News:
I have been stepping back from Facebook over the course of the last two months. In fact, the only time I’d been logging in was to update the Bricks of the Dead page with the latest comics. Over the weekend I have finally decided to shut down my account, which means I won’t be updating the fan page any longer. I doubt this will impact any of you, but I figured I’d point it out just in case.
Discussion Question: Ridiculous Zombie Survival Plans
No doubt you’ve heard other people talk about how they would go about surviving the zombie apocalypse. Some of these plans might be measured and realistic (realistic within the parameters of the fictional situation, obviously), but it seems to me that most are pretty out there. I know the ideas I had as a younger guy were pretty ludicrous in retrospect. With that in mind, what’s the silliest survival strategy you’ve heard? Or maybe even that you came up with yourself.
Typo alerts: “Jess definitely has some bit plans” bit–big 😀
“how they would go about survival the zombie” Add “of” just before “the”.
Only two for today, that I can see. As always, if any other readers spot a typo, please do comment about it! I don’t catch ’em all, that’s for some Pokemon fanatic! 😀
I’d say “how they would go about surviving the zombie apocalypse”
That’s just me, and I’m probably wrong. Lol.
Fixed all. Thanks guys.
Thanks pepper, as i said I don’t catch ’em all! Sometimes I focus on the wrong part of the sentence, not a problem if Dave finds the typo to be fixed anyway! 😀
Hey Dave! Good call on leaving FB, I did it 2 years ago and never missed it.
I really like your commentary today… And it gave me an idea. I am sure that with your wide knowledge of the zombie genre you must know this. Did anyone ever tried to tell a zombie tale with Dinosaurs? .. or better, with robot dinosaurs?
Eugene talked a little about this in The Walking Dead television series.
“he mentions that no one can know for sure if the zombie disease didn’t cause the extinction of the dinosaurs; though he admits it’s highly unlikely but he finds the theory highly amusing”
Eugene was always a fun character. Is he still alive on the show?
I don’t want to spoil anything, but yes he is
That would be soooooooo epic! 😀
It’d be interesting, wouldn’t it? I mean, are zombies toxic themselves? I would be tough for the dinosaurs to fight them if biting infected or killed the dinos.
What if… the dinosaurs themselves would be the zombies. After all, they are supposed to be extinct, if you want to tell a tale about extinct reptiles, you might just as well make them undead. I imagine a fan fiction of Jurassic Park… A few years after the events, the dinosaurs are still there but they have turned to flesh eating monsters… No, wait, that was already the case initially.
Dang. It was a good start.
I still want to see a zombified T-Rex.
Two years, eh? I should have wised up sooner. What a miserable place.
Hmm. I can’t recall any zombie/dinosaur or zombie/robo-dinosaur stories, but I’d be shocked if there wasn’t one or two out there somewhere.
Silliest survival strategy I’ve ever heard…is one I haven’t heard yet. It’s one that I’m about to create! 😀
So…zombies live pretty boring lives, right? They just shamble around aimlessly for all eternity. I think they need to have a little fun.
Introducing…The UWF!
The Undead Wrestling Federation!
We teach the zombies…to wrestle! Well, fake wrestle. We give them characters and gimmicks! We can really take things to the extreme, because they feel no pain, and they never tire. It’ll be great! We’d pay them in brains, obviously. You don’t want front row seats to this show. 🙂
In exchange for giving them something to do,and the brains, they entertain us and try not to kill us all. I think the UWF Is going to be the bridge to bring us, and the undead, together. Imagine thousands of children cheering on “Undead Zed” as he finally captures the title from the big bad “Zomberg”!
The bonding between the zombies and the fans would be just remarkable. 🙂
The UWF is the beginning of a new world. A world where zombies and humans can live together peacefully.
It really is ironic, that the violence of two zombies beating the crap out of each other with steel chairs, is what brings peace to this world. 🙂
Hah, that’s definitely one of the more out there ideas. Nicely done.
That’s definitely one for the silliness bag! I would imagine with a little ingenuity and careful capturing of zombie subjects that one could pull off a carefully faked version of this! 😀
Puppetry was once used in some obscure movie somewhere to create living vegetables that appeared to move and do things with their hands. I forget which but they used invisible wires and threads or something along those lines, it’s been so long ago I don’t even remember it all! 😀
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or II or III or IV maybe
I keep a go-bag and supplies in my trunk, not for zombies, but for more likely things. I’ve even needed it twice in the last 17 years.
For silliness, I’ll give you this: I thought up a password I didn’t tell anyone, just in case I met myself or someone sent by me, time-traveling from the future. If they know the password, then I would know that I could trust their instructions/advice.
Personal comment. Leaving Facebook was a bad decision. Yes there have been problems but Facebook has not been the only one caught in the gathering information scheme. Almost all online providers gather data on us and very few of us know what is done with it. Do you know what data the Brick Comic Network is collecting on us and who they are sharing it with?
If you limited your posts to just Bricks of the Dead you probably had limited impact. All you have done is closed the barn door long on an advertising route long after the information has fled the barn. Do you have Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Goggle Community or any of the others out there? Do you know what they are doing with your information and have you shut them down too?
My concerns with Facebook weren’t the data gathering (and subsequent loss and/or sale), although that does piss me off. It was rather just the toxicity of interacting with people on there. I felt like it brought out the absolutely worst in people.
Toxicity on the internet isn’t new but just the toxicity of human interactions but into a longer lasting format with a wider audience. Ignore or delete the bad and spread the good.
May I suggest watching “Black Mirror” for some insights into what is waiting for us?
Watched the entire series already