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Saturday, October 15, 2011

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 15 - Zombies

ZOMBIES! Well if you have not caught your fair share of zombies in the last few years you have not paid much attention to pop culture because these guys are everywhere. The basic premise of zombies are that they reanimated corpses of usually the recently deceased with a hunger for human flesh. At some point it has become popular to say zombies want to eat your brains but they really just want to eat you completely . . . of course your brain may taste best. Zombies have several different versions traditionally they are slow and are easy to avoid by themselves unless you happen upon one by surprise. The problem with slow zombies comes in when there are more of them than their are of living humans in an area. More recently zombies have acquired "Rage" and are fast and capable of running and although still very instinctual they seem to have more intelligence than the traditional zombies. Before you think you've seen it all you might want to think about Flying Zombies . . . yes I said Flying Zombies and they are a whole new ball of wax when it comes to getting away from zombies.

In most zombie stories the key to destroying them is to remove the head or kill the brain and they will die.

I've seen hundreds of zombie movies and read many comics about them here are my starting suggestions:

Movies: Night of The Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Fido, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and Zombieland.

Comics: The Walking Dead, Flying Zombies

Books: The Zombie Survival Guide

TV: The Walking Dead

In my drawing I went with a zombie that looks like he's happy to see you . . . for dinner. I've drawn zombies before and usually I make them have huge teeth with this one I tried to keep him a little more human but still a bit silly.

The colors are Copic Markers.

As they say in Dawn Of The Dead "When There's No More Room In Hell The Dead Will Walk The Earth,"
Kevin P. Johnson

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Monday, October 3, 2011

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 3 - The Mummy

OK so some monsters are kind of lame but still everyone knows them and have a great time watching movies about them. In this case the we have The Mummy or The Living Mummy a character that I never understood how people could get killed by and yet they did. Mummies are found all over the world by archaeologist but the movie mummies are usually based on an Egyptian mummy of what seems to be a random assortment of ancient pharaohs that have a curse on their tomb and upon opening it's tomb the Mummy comes alive and kills all who have disturbed his sleep. My problems with this are as follows:
1. The guy is slow as a mummy how does he catch anyone?
2. He's like walking dust get a vacuum cleaner and he'll leave you alone.
3. I bet water would mess him up just as much as fire but I don't think anyone ever uses water.
4. The guy has one move he chokes you . . . slowly.

All in all the Mummy is still an interesting character and if you allow yourself the suspension of disbelief (lots of it) you can have great fun with the movies about him.

I did 4 drawings of the Mummy. In my first drawing I used Copic Markers for the color and the three other drawings were just Sharpie Marker.

Head over to Uncyclopedia to read more very funny stuff about the Mummy

You'd have to be dumb to get caught by the Mummy,
Kevin P. Johnson