When Zombies Attack!!!

[longmanshort]

RUN! ZOMBIES!!!!!!!

Well, not quite, but now that I've got your attention I'd like to tell you all about The End is Nigh, the magazine that deals with the Apocalypse in all its terrifying forms.

The theme for the first issue is zombies!!!!

Paul Scott has passed on the project to my tall self and we've settled on a theme of zombies and the genre they have spawned with their shuffling and their grunting ...

So ... we're looking for:

* reviews of zombie films and books. With the remains of Shaun of the Dead still freshly quivering and the 'reimagining' of Dawn of the Dead, an overview of the genre once crowded with unconvincing prosthetics and fake blood that's become fasionable again ...
* Pull-out Zombie Survival Guide! What to do if the undead come a'knocking ...
* Whatever happened to the Zombie? Maybe chart the shift already noted in zombies from shuffling brainless drones to running, biting, shouting terror!!!
* Comic strips - scripts should be three pages long and, of course, we need those artists!!! There's also newspaper strips wanted in a format of 6cm x 18.5cm.
* Features on what's in and out in the latest zombie fashions.
* What's it like being undead?
* A guides for vegetarian or pacifist zombies.
* Plus maybe a serious piece on the legends of the zombie and it's former ties to the voodoo religion of the Caribbean and Africa.

It's all in the best possible distaste and generally fun so please join the resistance at the Yahoo group (link below) or you can sendmail your ideas - all e-mails answered!!

All ideas and material are welcome and the deadline for final submissions is February - so look sharp, pick up the nearest blunt instrument and make your way through the hoardes of the undead!!!!

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Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/last_headline/" target="_blank">JOIN US AND FEED ON THE FLESH OF THE LIVING!!!

[longmanshort]

D'oh!

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[longmanshort]

Try again ...

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[Bolt-01]

Yay! Wondered who the mystery 'successor' was.

I'll have a couple of newspaper strips please.

Bet you'll want the 'wormfood' strips as well. The Phuz will be able to get them for you.

Bolt-01

[Phuz]

Woomfood ? 3 panel undead minimalism genius by Dave Hailwood?..

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http://www.geocities.com/purecrass/Wormfood1.htm">Wormfood website

[Phuz]

And Mike, can you get rid of that god-awful picture I drew for the front of the Yahoo Group and replace it with the slightly less god-awful picture below:

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[Noisybast]

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[Art]

It's bloody Zombies now? Drat.

[longmanshort]

Just for the first issue, Arthur! We decided to go with a theme for each edition so people have got a bit of focus. Future issues will focus on:

* False messiahs, religious visions of the Apocolypse, Biblical floods, divine vengence, and the battle between good and evil for the end!
* Asteroids! Extinction Level Events!
* Nuclear destruction and surviving World War Three!

and many more!

Artists for strips and spot-illustrations, and writers for strips, articles and fun pieces still wanted!!!

E-mails are already pouring in but it's my deadline day so I'll get to them this afternoon! Keep the ideas rolling in!!

[Dunk!]

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[Richmond Clements]

You could always try this:

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/071563318X/qid=1102594916/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/202-8995651-0283805" target="_blank">Zombies.

[Matt Timson]

Mess not with... The Bad Hair Zombies...!

[Jared Katooie]

Damn that sounds good. I'm a zombie expert. I live in a macabre state of half-life most days. I also two people who were clinically dead.

I'd love to contribute something but I dont know if I could do it, what with my state of living death, rapid mental degeneration and my exams. I might give it a go though.

JK.

[johnnystress]

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[longmanshort]

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Bollox. Well, someone want to do a review?

I was thinking of a more 'visual' survival guide, with lots of nice spot illos of tips on how to deal with, escape from, prevent and care for (as pets) zombies ...