Sick Zombie vs Healthy Zombie

I know, I know, I know. The title is kind of an oxymoron. But really who fucking cares, it is zombies we are talking about after all. So after spending the last 5 or 6 days laid up in the house feeling like every sinus in my body was being repeatedly plugged full of cement, and topping it off with the feeling of being under a blow torch while Freddy Kreuger scratched my throat, I pondered at this question of the week. Would a person who died with a sever cold or flu (yes I know if you get bit by a zombie you get sick, die, then stand back up. I'm talking a sickness on top of the sickness) be less effective as a zombie than someone who was bitten while healthy?

My first instinct would be to automatically nominate the healthy zombie as the most effective. BUT!! The sick zombie would quite possibly have more infectious fluids to use on it's victims. Thus in turn making the sickly zombie the more effective one.

Yes these are the things that keep me awake at night. Sad, I know.

What's the time? It's time to get ill.

Was thinking back to the 90's today and remembering how gawd awful some of the outfits and hair styles people wore back then. I mean seriously, think about it, there were people who literally dressed like fucking clowns and passed it off as being "fashionable". One of the prime examples of this monstrosity was the show In Living Color. Now I loved that show, but today an old episode came on television and the Wayen's brother that was the host came out wearing something that looked like a pair of bad curtains sewn together then tossed into a recurring nightmare involving rape victims and the Special Olympics. Thank goodness the 90's are over.

*Disclaimer* I in no way condone rape or the Special Olympics.

So I got in some new pages today for the ZFW: Zombies of Foreign Wars series. Figured it might be a pretty cool idea to give those of you who follow this blog a little sneak preview. I'll probably throw up a page a week to keep you all interested. So far the writing is coming along and I should be finished with the last 15 or so pages of the trade issue in a week or so. Hopskotch is working on the cover for the trade issue as I type this. I am going to say one thing, the cover will be fucking amazing. Maybe I'll throw it up on here when finished to give the fans a little treat. So anyway, enjoy the art.

Character kill off, and C.O.C.K.

For some reason I have been having a real bitch of a time killing of one of the characters in the ZFW series. I don't know where the emotional attachment may stemming from, but there has to be some kind of deep seeded connection to the way this character is written. Any other writers out there experience this?

Now onto the C.O.C.K.S. For those who have been living under a technology rock the last few weeks probably missed Steve Niles tweeting and blogging about how we need to come together in the creator owned comic community to help support each other. I could not agree more. As someone who is an indie comic creator as well as the publishing director for a small press comic company who's very core foundation is about supporting creators and their projects, I personally applaud Niles. Hell, if he was in town I would by him a shot and a hooker for finally getting it out there on a larger scale that ALL of us who are in the indie scene need to help each other out by cross promotion, blogging, and generally spreading the information out there for others to see. If you don't like a specific indie comic, that should not stop you from recommending it to others. People have a wide range of tastes and preferences, just because you might not like one book does not mean the other person will feel the same. That is after all what C.O.C.K.S. (Creator Owned Comics Knowledge Spreaders) is all about.

Ok, time to go talk to Bill Bixby about buying a horse.