zombies

In Jiro Matsumoto's Velveteen & Mandala, two high school girls, the eponymous Velveteen and Mandala, go from spending idle time on a riverbank to fighting against hordes of the undead. They're cute schoolgirls -- one blonde, one with black hair -- they've got easy access to weapons, they live in a tank (kinda), their zombie enemies still mill around going on job interviews, and there's a lot o

Music: Kirby Krackle's new album, "Super Powered Love," has arrived on iTunes and other digital outlets, just in case you didn't catch them at Comic-Con. Movies: According to Deadline, Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting Universal Pictures' live action adaptation of The Umbrella Academy...

Music: Wavves frontman Nathan Williams is teaming with artist Nicholas Gazin for Negative Dad, a potentially 12-issue comic series about "...heshers, evil parents, cat people, juvenile delinquents with partially functioning mutant powers, aliens, dreams...

Upcoming: Out of Chaos War comes Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and artist Neil Edwards' Herc #1, an ongoing series debuting in April that pits a far more mortal Hercules against new challenges in a decidedly more street-level setting. Digital: Much of Ben Templesmith's IDW work (Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, Welcome to Hoxford and more) is now available digitally on iTunes through a new Templesmith-cen

For those of you who haven't been keeping up with the headlines lately, I've got some bad news: Since January 1st, there have been dozens of reports of mass animal deaths coming in from all over the world. From blackbirds in Arkansas to doves in Italy to over 150 tons of fish in Vietnam, critters all over the place are falling out of the sky and/or washing ashore, with no apparent reason why. Guys

'Form follows function' is a principle of modern design. Things should look like what they do. Buildings made for the towering ambition of business people should jut upwards. Court houses should be solid, evenly structured, while being subtly imposing...

One of our favorite geek rock bands Kirby Krackle returns with an all-new music video for "Zombie Apocalypse," a track off their eponymous debut album. Animated by Damon O'Keefe ("Metalocalypse") and Daisy Church, "Zombie Apocalypse" depicts the familiar story of an average dude (vocalist Kyle Stevens) waking up in a word overrun by the flesh-eating undead, only with

The trailer for the AMC "Walking Dead" TV show, originally shown at Comic-Con, has been released! The 4.5 minute video begins roughly where the comic book series begins: with small-town police officer Rick Grimes getting wounded in a shootout, and waking up in the hospital...

Since zombies, comics and metal are essentially a recipe for edgy pop culture peanut butter and jelly (and honey!...that is, if you like honey), it's a wonder the deliciousness doesn't ooze from every pore of the entertainment industry. Recognizing this, The Devil Wears Prada has assembled a preorder package for their upcoming "Zombie EP" that capitalizes on my very heavily biased sentim

Yeah, zombies are still scary - particularly the zombies from AMC's "The Walking Dead," which have an all-too spry penchant for popping up online on their march toward their "Fearfest" debut in October. AMC treated fans to a barrage of production images earlier this month...