... in comic books nowadays. I mean, seriously, at what point does this zombie saturation become savage oversaturation? It's not like I'm preaching anything revolutionary here. It's just that I'm getting a little bored with zombies.
Frankly, I think it might be a good idea to retire them altogether. Not forever, mind you, but just for a couple years. A little zombie break might be healthy.
Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe zombies should be milked for all they're worth right now. Ring the goddamn undead dry until they don't sell comics anymore! Maybe that's really the way to go. Let them kill themselves like any other good capitalist trend.
P.S. What do I know? I'm guilty too.
zombies and vampires are just seven types of lame.
Ahem. Fewer zombies.
Ahem. How about you start covering summer TV?
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Don't you think the low diction of saying "less" for "fewer" was an intentional stylistic choice--a sort of "write like you talk" kind of gesture--to bring the reader closer to the blogger?
i pretty much i agree, and i'm the one with the upcoming zombie book (my SECOND one no less!). ¬_¬
although on the other hand, i don't even read any zombie comics so i have no idea what's out there, maybe there's some awesome stuff. and if somebody has an awesome story to tell but it features an overexposed archetype, should they just not do it? they certainly run the risk of being overlooked, though.
i'm sort of tired of superheroes, too. but i don't think they'll get a respite any time soon.
i wrote two posts saying "there should be more" and i decided to contrast the "more" notion with "less" because it creates the illusion of a more direct verbal comparison and thus weaves a stronger sense of parallel structure than "fewer" possibly could. also, i get paid to write for a living, so put that in your grammar pipe and smoke it!
i wonder what makes me feel like the zombie is overused while i feel like the superhero can just keep on going... i guess i see the zombie concept as a plot trapping rather than a springboard for limitless storytelling potential. but that's over-judgmental of me, and seeing myself as judgmental in this situation now makes me want to realign my notion of what a zombie can or can't be. for example, a story about a zombie unicorn with a penchant for insane scientific experiments that's searching across unknown eternity for its long-lost soul mate. i would call it Zombicorn.
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i'm gonna play devil's advocate to myself here, heh. maybe it's because superheroes, even though they all basically have the same fundamental structure and idea behind them, can all be different characters regardless of how similar they are. an issue of Iron Man and an issue of Spider-Man could both feature them putting on their respective costume and fighting a villain and winning at the end, but i think it's the personality moments that really make a difference. and then X-Men is really different, totally different concept there, etc.
zombies on the other hand, rarely have personality and yeah, they're more a plot device so you can have a sweet post-apocalyptic world in which the dead walk for your human characters to play around in. but i guess it depends on how you spin it. definitely a different sort of concept, though, maybe my comparison was hasty.