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Zombie those bastards!

19:38 / 11.04.06

Right now I´m watching Dawn of the Dead, and it´s awesome and inspiring. And I searched and there are a few threads on zombies in convo and they´re all dead.

Now we all know the n*nja/p*rate thing has gone a bit stale, but zombies will always stay fresh.

That´s why I propose we use this thread to get our zombie ideas out there! Yes, don´t we all have these moments where we think "Oh, a Nicole Kidman/Steven Seagal/Shrek vs. Zombies movie, that would rock!"

Myself, I´d like to see a 24 season with L.A. being taken over by Zombies and only one man can save the day. That´s right

SPOILER scroll!
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S********! [I´m not putting the name here, because I don´t know how many 24 fans already know about this]
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Just think, all those characters that could come back! Chapelle, Nina, Radioactive Man!

And Kim could be bitten: "Uuuaarghh…Daaauaahhd!" She wouldn´t even need to act for her part.

So what´s your idea? How could Zombies improve your day, how could they infect the popculture bloodstream with new topii [how about Zombie Badgers, hint hint]?

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:42 / 11.04.06

And I searched and there are a few threads on zombies in convo and they´re all dead.

Well, obviously.

How about a theme tune?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:48 / 11.04.06

Now we all know the n*nja/p*rate thing has gone a bit stale, but zombies will always stay fresh.

Only if you keep them in the freezer, I suspect.

21:38 / 11.04.06

Nice one, Haus!
Ha, that guy even uses the brainstorming pun (although I´d like human brainstorming in this thread, too).

Now here´s something someone on another board has done, that helps me flesh out my idea. See, it´s zombified avatars of characters from a famous TV series. Some look quite well done (hehe).

Let´s see, if we can beat that!
*sings*
"All we wanna do is eat your brains!"

21:48 / 11.04.06

Locke looks just like Lex Luthor.

21:55 / 11.04.06

You mean he´s a kryptonite zombie? (Terry O'Quinn is a better choice for Luthor than Spacey!)

21:56 / 11.04.06

I can't beat this, but i'll winky in anyhoo...

The best one of the Lost zombies (i.e, most zombified of them all) is Boone. Coincidentally, it is the one who is already dead (or...is it????)

But, Misty, I have to ask, which Dawn of the Dead are you talking about? The original, or the remake? Because, you know, they're completely different movies (both of them are cool, but differently so)

Here's my idead:

Zombies in Washington - every US politician has become a zombie. The people take weeks to notice it. Bill Clinton only eats ugly intern brain. G.W. Bush finally learns how to talk coherently in his speeches. Bill O'Reilly, zumbified, makes a cameo, saying on FoxNews: The spin stops here, the spin stops here, the spin stops here.

Zombies in Barbelith - Need I say more? I can totally picture the London Clique trying to eat everybody's brains, while a handfull of newbies (lead by me,evidently) mount a resistence in Convo (because it's the closest thing to a mall we have here)

21:59 / 11.04.06

Why some zombies are gray and other are green? Are there subspecies?

22:02 / 11.04.06

Levels of putridity, perhaps.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:04 / 11.04.06

For the record: I like Xoc, to link to an old zombie thread. I still want this to be published on day. With coffee table book format and big pretty Shaun Tan pictures.

22:12 / 11.04.06

Convo (because it's the closest thing to a mall we have here)
HEY! Convo is nothing like a mall. Its is a pub.
Carry on.

22:26 / 11.04.06

But, Misty, I have to ask, which Dawn of the Dead are you talking about? The original, or the remake? Because, you know, they're completely different movies (both of them are cool, but differently so)

The new one, it´s so great! It´s got zombie baby, zombies getting cut up at the kneecaps with a chainsaw from inside a truck, celebrity zombie shooting, fat woman zombie played by a male actor, brave dog running through zombie crowd to bring starving friend food, mean neighbour getting run over by an ambulance, burning and exploding zombies, etc.

And if this is the pub retreat, I don´t want anybody farting in here. That wasn´t funny in Shaun, and we can´t open the windows or they will get in!

22:27 / 11.04.06

Geesh! Thats what the Fart funnels are for.

22:54 / 11.04.06

HEY! Convo is nothing like a mall. Its is a pub.

Then Barbe-zombies, Teh Movie!!!!!1!!!1!!! would be more like Shaun of the Dead than Dawn of the Dead? I can un-live with that

22:58 / 11.04.06

Yes!
Barb of the Dead.
Where both the deads and the threads are rotted and refuse to die.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

05:21 / 12.04.06

I'd just like to remind folks that Skeleton Camera and myself put together THIS little zombie extravaganza:

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:23 / 12.04.06

Continuing the meme theme, I have a short story up today on a zombie theme - Working Stiff. It involves a sexy party. An orgy.

07:32 / 12.04.06

that zombie sure is a man in motion.

09:29 / 12.04.06

I thought about writing a 24 zombie season. 24 episodes (not in real time, in undead time), with lots of twists and fingertip-biting suspense.

Would that be better in conversation or creation?