My brother is awesome. Why, do you ask? Because that is him in his halloween costume for this year. Nuff said.
Well played Michiel. Well played indeed. The gauntlet has just been thrown down. I must now find something to match the epicness of this costume. Let the plotting and scheming begin.
By Christina Castillo
You know, I have tried to write this review about 500 times and for some reason I can’t get the words right. At least not to my mind. Nothing seems to sound right or maybe it just feels like anything I say just doesn’t do it justice. So, I am going to take the easy way out and simply say….READ IT! The author’s name is Mira Grant although some may actually know her by her actual name Seanan McGuire as she writes books under this name as well.
If you like zombies, if you like viruses, if you like politics (or at least enjoy reading about them) and if you want to read a book that is well written and says more about human nature than the zombies that inhabit the world then you will like this book. I could give you a synopsis, but let’s face it, you can get that from the back cover or from Amazon or you can even read the first chapter at Feed’s very own website. The website alone is entertaining in and of itself.
Suffice it to say, Mira Grant masterfully paints a frightening world in which politicians are scarier than zombies , the zombies are just a fact of daily life that the public have come to accept as not only something they have to live with, but something that most of them will ultimately become. And underlying the whole tragedy is a scandal, a scandal that Grant only alludes to in this book and has kept me clamoring for the release date of the new book for months. I urge you to check it out.
I've known about the book Night of the Living Trekkies for a while now. I'd read about it online, I'd seen it at comic con, but at no point was I ever interested in reading it. As amusing as the concept of blending Star Trek and zombies is, I think I've just been getting to the point where I'm kind of over zombie stories. They are everywhere lately. There are zombie books, zombie comics, zombie games, zombie movies. Everywhere you turn, you'll find something about the undead. It's as if there actually has been a real, honest-to-god zombie invasion taking place in popular media.
I had thought I was was over it, but then I saw the above trailer.
Holy crap if that isn't the most brilliant bit of marketing I've ever seen, I don't know what is. I now find myself dying to read that book. If it's even half as amusing as this trailer is, it'll be totally worth reading. I also now find myself wishing that this story gets turned into a full on movie. I could only hope that the movie will be as low budget and cheesy as the trailer is. It's the campiness of the effects and the bad Star Trek costumes that really makes this trailer pure nerd gold. Can we just give the guys who made the trailer more money so they can shoot the whole thing? Please?
Damn skippy. Just remember kids, only the coolest of the cool kids wear glasses.
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