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zombie_me_by_lordnetsua-d5fu33tWe continue to take the lazy road with ZOTW and highlight some of the amazing zombie cosplay available over at DeviantArt.com.

This week is “Zombie Me” by LordNetsua (photography by Joshua Hew). From the artist:

This was for a friend’s upcoming photo-manipulation zombie comic – I did all my face makeup myself – using a mix of red and black face paints, then a tissue/liquid latex paper mache for the flesh, the painted that a greeny flesh colour, and then added heaps of fake blood. I also put conditioner in my hair to make it more dead looking.

(Disclaimer: Images are used gratefully, but without permission. We will strive to meet any requirements of rights holders.)

As reported by the amazing IFLScience.com in “Mathematicians Work Out Zombie Apocalypse Plan“, graduate students at Cornell have taken to using (they say) fictitious parameters based on zombie outbreaks to model epidemiological forecasts of transmission and control. Not only is the team applying significant scientific rigor to the experiment, they’re also performing their simulations on a huge scale: like the entirety of the United States and all of it’s 300 million people.

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Just a day since an outbreak in New York City brings zombies to the U.S.A.

Alex Alemi, a Ph.D. physics student has led the work and his news is mixed but generally, as you might expect, not good. Hollywood, it seems, has the basics but misses, as it often does, in the details. In traditional circumstances, it seems like cities would become overrun quickly along well-established transportation routes. However rural areas could stay infection free for weeks or even months. Truly isolated areas are even more secure and, it turns out, the safest place in the U.S. would appear to be the northern rocky mountains.

Obviously Alemi claims that his work isn’t targetted at actual zombie outbreaks. We choose to believe him, for now. Instead, effort is to test existing and modified modeling techniques to improve their quality.

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As we’re perpetually running low on zombies to use for ZOTW here, we decided to take the easy way out for a few weeks and highlight some of the amazing zombie cosplay available over at DeviantArt.com.

First up is “Undead Drool” by Noir-SNF.

Love the eye socket and the slack lip. The photography is top-notch as well!

(Disclaimer: Images are used gratefully, but without permission. We will strive to meet any requirements of rights holders.)

Bart the Zombie CatIn a story that seems to get weirder the longer it goes on, we bring you Bart, the Zombie Cat. The Tampa Humane Society details his story thus far in “Miracle Cat Comes Back from the Grave“. Bart was apparently hit by a car in January. The owner believed the cat to be dead and buried him. Presumably after being hit with a nice dose of Trioxin, or maybe the T-Virus, the cat clawed its way out of the shallow grave and showed up back home five days later.

Amazingly the cat suffered no internal injuries. He needed extensive surgery to have his left eye removed and his jar wired shut, but he’s expected to recover, lead a full life and will probably get to wear a cool-ass eye-patch. This would make him both a pirate and a zombie.

This may be the coolest cat that’s ever existed.

All is not well in the world of undead cats, however. Apparently, as reported on CNN,  Bart is now the target of a lawsuit by his owner who claims that the humane society is refusing to return him so that they they can use him to raise donations. We refuse to take a position on the matter, but have admit that, yeah: a zombie pirate cat is clearly a cash cow.

 

Dead-Snow-2We’re wrapping up our retrospective of Nazi Zombies not far from where we started, with the gang from Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead. We had only thought to run with this through December but there just seem to be so damn many Nazi zombies out there.

We know that some of you may complain about our final choice. “Technically,” you might say in that annoying tone that makes us want to slap your smug face even though you’re technically correct, “these are are the same Nazi zombies that you started with!”

Yes, you are technically correct, but, as we’ve said many, many times: these are our rules, we make ’em up. Now shut up and sit down.