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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

A Comic Book Scavenger Hunt, A-Z: Zombie Tales 2061

Title: Zombie Tales 2061
Issue: #1
Release: July 2009
Writer: Kim Krizan
Artist: Jon Reed
Store: Earth Prime Comics (Burlington, Vermont)
Image via comicsplus

Well, of course Z was going to mean zombies!   ZT 2061 takes the idea a bit past the point of apocalypse.  The zombies have established a society in which humans exist only for food and amusement.  Some have even developed sympathy for the subjugated species.  A plan is hatched by an underground human rebellion to rid the planet of zombies forever - with a clever twist at the end.

Any interest in joining a bloggers' book club?  Please visit my link here.

So ends my A-Z challenge for 2013.  My scavenger hunt was pretty straight-forward: find comic books off the rack with titles starting from A-Z.  Go check out the rest of the participants in this year's A-Z challenge.  The official site is here.

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18 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 30, 2013 at 8:29 AM

    Congratulations in completing the A to Z Challenge.

    Yvonne
    A to Z AMBASSADOR.

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 10:14 AM

      Thank you, Yvonne, and thank you for you ambassadorship.

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  2. Andrew LeonApril 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM

    You know, I'm just not into zombies.

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM

      Generally speaking, I'm not either. This one didn't work for me. Nor did The Waking. I recently tried the manga High School of the Dead and didn't care for it. I'll tell you, though, there's something about The Walking Dead that works.

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    2. SuzeApril 30, 2013 at 11:38 AM

      I'm with Aaaaandrew. Look what else you coulda dug up, Rookster: http://leftandwriteblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/z-z-endoh-and-yeahzatanna.html

      There's so many zombies out for Z today I'm sittin' here pukin' my guts out.

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    3. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM

      Well, yes, I rather expected your negative reaction to this choice. I do wonder how many picked zombies today just as I wonder how many did vampires on V Day.

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    4. Andrew LeonApril 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM

      I did not do zombies today nor did I do vampires. Although I did think about the vampires.

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    5. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM

      But you did do werewolves - next best thing.

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  3. Tony LaplumeApril 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM

    In the Cranberries song "Zombie," is the phrase "in my head" also supposed to refer to the inexplicable proclivity for brains?

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM

      Don't think so. I think it's referring to the brainlessness of the zombies themselves.

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    2. CygnusApril 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM

      Well now you've got me singing it... eh eh eh, oh oh oh...

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    3. The Armchair SquidApril 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM

      I hadn't heard it in a while but listened just now. I may be humming it to myself for a while, too...

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    4. SuzeApril 30, 2013 at 10:49 PM

      When I was in college, I was dating an architect-in-training with a fantastic sense of humor. We were together for a long time and got comfortable acting like total jackasses around one another. One of the things that would crack him up was for me to sing that song when it came on the radio (it was the mid-'90s) with full inflection and added nuttiness and tortured facial expressions, etc.

      After I graduated, we went our separate ways and I entered the brief period in my dating career I call my JeffBenPhilKeith season. I'd been with the other guy for four years so new guys in quick succession was lightly disorienting. The first guy, Jeff, was a musician. He and I used to play the piano together and it was a lot of fun. On a fairly, I dunno, sophisticated outing to a nice restaurant, we were driving in his car and 'Zombie' came on. I did the 'performance' of which Rob the architect was so fond.

      It tanked. Massively. Jeff and I didn't last much longer after that.

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    5. The Armchair SquidMay 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM

      Funny story. I did have one "girlfriend" (a bit of a stretch to call her that) who didn't like me singing but it was a weird sort of inferiority complex deal. My singing made her insecure about her own singing. She was an odd one...

      Jeff - too cool for school?

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    6. SuzeMay 1, 2013 at 11:09 AM

      :D Too cool for school. I need to be able to act like a jackass around my man.

      True confessions: I read somewhere during A-Z on another blogger's post -- can't remember exactly where -- that you sung 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' Any chance you'd ever post a performance of yours to the Squid?

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    7. The Armchair SquidMay 1, 2013 at 11:29 AM

      I suppose it's possible but highly unlikely - cuts a little too close to my day job.

      I made that comment on Andrew Leon's blog, in fact. It was many years ago at this point - a choral concert in Tokyo of all places. I did up a quick-and-easy arrangement for a few of the more adventurous singers in the group and sang lead. I'm quite confident no recordings exist.

      Yes, finding a mate with whom you can truly be yourself is absolutely vital to happiness in life.

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  4. UnknownApril 30, 2013 at 3:55 PM

    Zombie-riffic!
    congratulations on the completion of A-Z!

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