![]() We live in a society that has become profoundly geekier in the last 15 years, and adopted the once secretive and insular totems of geek culture as its own. Yes, zombies have come a long way, as has our appreciation for them. The idea that a TV show like The Walking Dead could be one-upping Sunday Night football in TV ratings? That would seem patently impossible. ![]() Go back to the ’80s, and to wax poetic about George Romero-esque zombie films would have been the hallmark of a nerdy, acne-ridden high school student in a John Hughes movie. And that’s a pretty weird phenomena, when you think about it. From the living dead to the walking dead to the typing dead, zombies have completely and utterly suffused 21st century culture.
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