Stephyn Blackwood
Minstrel
So, excuse the totally intentional pun of a title.
In TV and games, these reanimated corpses seem to be doing very well. The Walking Dead is breaking it's viewing records again and again. The comics are also still going strong (if not getting even better). Ever year we seem to be getting at least one kind of zombie flick in the cinemas, some decent, some not so decent (I'm not going to talk about World War Z, I might be here for a while). In the gaming world, we have Telltale's extremely excellent Walking Dead spin-off, we have Call of Duty with it's own version of zombie survival, and let's not forget the spectacular apocalypse tale that was The Last of Us (They were basically zombies).
But zombie books don't seem to fly off the shelves, it's more of a lifeless shamble. There are plenty of them, trust me, I've read a few in my time. And some had some real character to them. Charlie Higson's The Enemy series. Jonathan Mayberry with Rot and Ruin. The afore mentioned World War Z.
So ultimately, is there any point in committing myself to writing something Post-Apocalypsey/Zombie-esque? Or is it just a waste of my time? Would I be better off trying to reanimate an old WIP?
Is anyone still interested in the living dead?
In TV and games, these reanimated corpses seem to be doing very well. The Walking Dead is breaking it's viewing records again and again. The comics are also still going strong (if not getting even better). Ever year we seem to be getting at least one kind of zombie flick in the cinemas, some decent, some not so decent (I'm not going to talk about World War Z, I might be here for a while). In the gaming world, we have Telltale's extremely excellent Walking Dead spin-off, we have Call of Duty with it's own version of zombie survival, and let's not forget the spectacular apocalypse tale that was The Last of Us (They were basically zombies).
But zombie books don't seem to fly off the shelves, it's more of a lifeless shamble. There are plenty of them, trust me, I've read a few in my time. And some had some real character to them. Charlie Higson's The Enemy series. Jonathan Mayberry with Rot and Ruin. The afore mentioned World War Z.
So ultimately, is there any point in committing myself to writing something Post-Apocalypsey/Zombie-esque? Or is it just a waste of my time? Would I be better off trying to reanimate an old WIP?
Is anyone still interested in the living dead?