KC COLUMN: BRAINS!
Zombie KC illustration by Jeff Moy (based on original illustration by KEZ).
KC Carlson has angered some in the zombie community with recent comments in his columns. And when things don’t go well in the zombie community… well… it’s not pretty. This week we present an interview with Zombie KC!
Beauology 101: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Zombie Style
by Beau Smith
In the pop culture world of horror, being a zombie is always shown as the bottom of the boot. In fact, that’s usually where you end up if you’re a zombie – at the bottom of somebody’s boot.
If you’re a zombie in the comics, the movies, on TV, or in a novel, you’re usually shown as not being very bright, you have a plodding, heavy-footed walk and your hygiene stinks — literally. Your oratory skills suck and you have skin that a leper would shun. I know these things. I’ve shackled zombies in my own stories with these clichés in my IDW Publishing series, Wynonna Earp as well as in Guy Gardner: Warrior during my run on it at DC Comics. Why? Well, because it was the easy way. (Even I look for the easy way now and then.)
Marc Guggenheim & Vince Gonzales interview
Superheroes. Zombies. Combine them and you get Super-Zombies, the new book from Dynamite Entertainment by writers Marc Guggenheim (Spider-Man, Young X-Men, and co-creator of TV’s Eli Stone) and Vince Gonzales (former correspondent for CBS News) and artist Mel Rubi (Red Sonja). Westfield’s Roger Ash recently contacted Guggenheim and Gonzles to learn more about this book.