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Comic-Con: Zombies in the Eye of the Beholder

Discover insights from zombie experts on the evolution of zombies, comparing fast versus slow zombies in thrilling detail.

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omic-Con gathered together the world's top zombie experts not named George Romero to talk zombies. Unsurprisingly, they see our favorite brain-eating shamblers in radically different ways. I cobbled together their comments from throughout the panel to paint a picture for how each writer imagines zombies. Max Brooks (World War Z): "Fast versus slow? Slow zombies are based on the hypothetical mobility scenario of necrotic flesh subjugated to high impact energy... and fast zombies suck." "The whole thing about zombies was the sheer size of the problem. The whole thing about monsters is you have to make a personal choice to go find them...you have to make a choice. With zombies, they come to you, and there is no safe place. That's thing about zombies is they are global, it is big, it is all-encompassing. You could still make the right decisions, they would come for you, and it didn't ...

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