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Apocalypse Nowadays

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As we all know, I am Greensboro's self-proclaimed King of the Undead. In addition to having a zombie related tshirt for literally every day of the week, I run an annual zombie walk called the Belligerent Risen Against the Inhuman Nullification of Zombies (or BRAINZ for short). I also collect zombie books, movies, comics, art, figures, etc etc etc. I know my stuff when it comes to the reanimated, cannibalistic corpses of your dearly beloved. And I've got a few gripes about something I have just witnessed. I just watched the trailer for the movie adaptation of Max Brooks' novel World War Z . I read this book not two months ago and loved every page of it! The way Brooks took the Romero idea of the slow, methodical, creeping zombie hoards and applied it to a global catastrophe showed depth and insight and research that just blew my mind! This is what was probably happening around the world when the group of survivors was trapped in the farmhouse during Night of the Living D