The downside to being undead would of course be gradually falling apart. Vampires of course have this problem beat as the conveniently heal whatever injury they have.
The humble zombie has a much harder road to travel. Part of the horror behind the zombie monster is their horrific rotting bodies and our own fears of death and putrification. Compared to zombies vampires have it easy these days. They get to be good looking, rich, immortal, and overly emotional Bellas just throw themselves at them.
Ain’t nobody lining up to date a zombie.
Until recently that is. The humble zombie is slowly making inroads into the “Teen paranormal romance” section of the bookstore. You have books like “Warm Bodies” and “Breathers” treating zombie more sympathetically than merely walking targets for our gun fantasies. Of course in order to do make zombies more acceptable to teenage girls, you’ve got to clean them up a bit. Febreeze helps. And of course you have to do something about that pesky rotting apart thing.
I’ve read a couple stories recently where they get around that problem by simply making a rule that if their zombie characters “Eat” they don’t rot and they regenerate. If they skip some meals… then they start getting gross.
The tradeoff in these stories is that the sexier authors try to make zombies the less horrific they become. You simply cannot have your cake and eat it too.
Throw him into the woodchipper anyways.
Aaaw come on, he’s going to be the next “Edward Cullen.” Teen girls will love him forever.
Carter you just made the best argument for throwing him in the woodchipper.
At least they don’t sparkle.
Zombie Chip N Dale dancers do. They’re covered in glitter.
In any case, a couple of well placed staples should do the trick…
By the by, in the second panel, shouldn’t we read “insta-rot” ?
Aah crap. I’ve read that over and over must have just kept mentally adding the “s”
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to fix that tonight. (Embarrassing)
Frankly, unless you’re the type who likes to head to the Morgue to pick up Friday-Night Dates, the term “Sexy Zombie” is going to be eternally an oxymoron.
McBob, I disagree. You simply have to lower your standards about what is sexy. Nope lower…. lower…. little lower. There you go now “Tar Man” from “Return of the living dead” is starting to look good.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
Heh. My Standards don’t dip any lower than “Rebeccah De Mornay in an Evening Gown”.
I admit that I have always had a thing for Rebeccah De Mornay. Very very hot.
Heh, Makes me think of the song “Zombie Prostitute” by Voltaire.
This really let’s you know why the armies couldn’t stop the spread. It happens too quick. Damn Insta-Rot.
I love Voltaire. He does great stuff.
I think the key to being able to spread is if there’s a very long incubation/infectious stage followed by insta-rot. Otherwise “Soon to be zombies” can’t get on planes and spread the zombiism to other countries. And that just wont do.