CBR: "'68" Is The Year Of The Zombie

[CBR News]

CBR spoke with creators Mark Kidwell, Nat Jones and Jay Fotos to discuss their 1960s era zombie miniseries about the Vietnam War, the infected flower power back home and the devastation across rest of the globe.


Full article here.

[Anthony W]

Can someone please explain to me the popularity of zombies? They are the lowest rung on the horror ladder IMO. Everytime I ask one of my friends what makes zombies so great they say "It's like...a metaphor...for like...consumerism..and stuff"

[Nik]

Zombies are awesome. That's why they're popular. You can't reason with them. You can't bargin. They're not beautiful. They're not powerful. There's just more of them than you. All they want to do is gang-eat you while you're alive enough to scream about it. That's freaky.

[EuphemismForSex]

Can someone please explain to me the popularity of zombies? They are the lowest rung on the horror ladder IMO. Everytime I ask one of my friends what makes zombies so great they say "It's like...a metaphor...for like...consumerism..and stuff"

Because they're awesome.

[Joseph C.]

Zombies are awesome. That's why they're popular. You can't reason with them. You can't bargin. They're not beautiful. They're not powerful. There's just more of them than you. All they want to do is gang-eat you while you're alive enough to scream about it. That's freaky.

What he said. A single zombie is freaky but yeah, nothing special about it. Anyone with enough balls could kill one, but the fact that if they bite you, you become one of them, and now that one zombie is two, and so on and so on. A Zombie is death and disease in the shape of a shambling undead corpse that spreads until there is nothing left to infect.

[Oskar Von Strange]

I'm sold on this project. I gotta go and check out that one-shot pronto!!!