Decant Circles

Absolutely hands-down top-of-the-top-ten no-holds-barred completely *worst* way to break up with your girlfriend here. I mean worst. Worse than slamming the door and leaving them outside for the zombies.

(Ghad, I hope that melodramatic little prick gets eaten.)

It's called dead winter, it's a zombie apocalypse webcomic, and it starts here.

Just picked up World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. It's by Max Brooks, the same guy who did The Zombie Survival Guide; it's fiction rather than tongue-in-cheek guidelines, set a decade after the titular event. The author was hired to compile a report, and created a book out of all the stuff he collected that didn't fit with said report's "Just the facts, ma'am" direction.

I am scarcely thirty pages in, and it is beautiful; I am praying he maintains the tone. So far it's very much a focus on the human factor, whether as a cause of the spread or as the perspective through which a particular event is viewed. Not to mention a perfectly sensible idea from a doctor performing illegal transplants, which makes sense but I'd simply never thought of before:

( As it may well be a spoiler. )

It makes sense. I like it.

Currently, it is hard to grab a handful of horror fiction without meeting at least one zombie in the mix.

Between the Innsmouth movie (and convergent evolution with the new Pirates movie), and the video game, and the magazines I keep tripping over, I am hoping for the Mythos to be the next darling trope.

*touches wood*

There is a comic I have newly run across, called Always Tomorrow.

I looked at the first strip, thought "wish-fulfillment geek humour", and clicked to the next strip to confirm.

It broke with expectations on strip two.

It got funny on strip three. In that horrible tacky kind of funny way I expect from Something Positive.