Kasey is not only good with action, he also does a fantastic job of drawing zombies. I’m going to put *that* talent to work for sure.
If I may step on this wonderful page by Kasey Quevedo (sorry, Kasey!), I do have some other news. Our previous artist, Michael Yakutis, is debuting his new comic at San Diego Comic Con this weekend! He’s drawing parts of William Shatner’s Man O War! Also, as part of Comic Con, the Chuck Jones Gallery in Santa Fe is showing some of his art along with other artists involved with Man O War. Wish him luck, folks, and if you see Michael at Comic Con be sure to tell him you’re a fan.
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Zoey: Jacob, you can handle a few zombies.
Jacob: The Jian Shi aren't zombies. They're a new species of humanity. They were a failed supersoldier program...strong and highly infectious...with no memory of their former lives. But they band together and swarm when threatened. They have their own language and agriculture...they even breed true. And there are 100 million of them. The official policy of the Genocide Project is to stay away.
Jacob: The Jian Shi aren't zombies. They're a new species of humanity. They were a failed supersoldier program...strong and highly infectious...with no memory of their former lives. But they band together and swarm when threatened. They have their own language and agriculture...they even breed true. And there are 100 million of them. The official policy of the Genocide Project is to stay away.
Now this…this I was not expecting. All signs pointed to the Jian Shi being a zombie variant, but the fact that they’ve got their own sort of culture and still do human things is quite shocking.
They’re all drooling… even the newborn… that’s somehow… cute…
But I’m also quite surprised about the zombie culture. Curious to see more from it!
Waitwaitwait, what? The Project’s never
said “oh, they’re a new species of humanity” before – just “KILL THE DEVIANTS!” instead. They
must have *really* messed up with the Jian Shi to
change tack like that!
Zombie bacon too, I see.
The zombie farmer having the tines of his fork going THROUGH his foot … And 100 million of them, I think Faith would have a hard time with that scrum.
Zombie pig?
That’s an odd response from people who usually nuke problems away or send in supersoldiers.
Is it because it was their fault?
“They even BREED true”
That was the bit that got me…………..
By the Allspark, it’s the sharess damned FLOOD
Why exactly hasn’t the Project GLASSED China yet?
… so essentially, Jian Shi function more or less like a standard human being except for the odd colored skin, the dead eyes, and unusual (partially uncontrollable?) motor functions.
That last bit reminds me of people with cerebral palsy and other similar neurological illnesses.
The project can’t just nuke them. I mean they could, but then they’d have to deal with the rest of the Chinese population. Jacob says there’s 100 million Jian Shi; which means there’s probably like 1 billion Chinese baseline humans.
Nuclear weapons are good at destroying infrastructure, but they’re surprisingly bad at killing civilian populations. Everyone within 2 miles of impact is fried unless they’re in a bunker, sure. But radiation is hit and miss, especially with mutated supersoldiers. If the population is spread out, you’d have to carpet-nuke all of China…and still might not get them all.
Wait a minute… if the Jian Shi are not zombies, why did Jacob say “China is full of zombies” in Chapter 1, Page 15?
That birthing position isn’t particularly healthy. It was really only created for the convenience of doctors.
CapnCoconuts — because he was ranting, and used ‘zombies’ as a shortcut term?
(Or maybe because at that time, the author had not yet thought in detail about the Jian Shi. 🙂 )
Remember, by definition, Chong Shee are bouncing Betties…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCIIJWXm1Eg
Something to do with cadavers a long time ago being transported in long bamboo cages, thus the bouncing associated with dead bodies…and zombie superstition.On this video, you have to drink a mix of eggs from albino hens stirred in anti-freeze to be able to beat Jian Shi…
@Matt40000: The hands-off approach probably has more to do with the 100 million than anything else. That’s a really large population to try and exterminate.
But the Zombie reference made for an epic pun!
ftp://ftp.moonie.ca/Funny_pics/China_Zombies.jpg
^_^
…So, am I the only one wondering if the hoppin’ corpse doctor ever went to medical school? Or did he just put on the lab coat one day and nobody could remember that he *wasn’t*?
…Did *he* remember that he wasn’t?
Wow, being a hoppin’ corpse has got to be an existential nightmare.
Reproduce conventionally. . .and via, I would guess, contact or maybe even mere close proximity.
And, judging by the slackjawed look on the pig. . .they can infect across specie boundaries. Lord and Lady what a nightmare. . .
Remus, you have to check out:
https://realvegancheese.org/
When I started reading it, it made me want to check the list of associated people for a Fumiaki. They seriously use terms for the enterprise that include “open source”, “crowd-funded”, and “biohack”. It was like looking at a nice, early version of the technology this website is assuming becomes standard.
On a similar note, have you read much of Peter Watts? Much of his stuff is available online and he also uses real biology to create scary worlds.
The Sourceforge Biohack project mentioned in the timeline is real. There are people out there trying to do this stuff right now.
And yep, Peter Watts is one of my favorite authors.
http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
Maybe that would somewhat explain China’s red communists’ cannibalism…(the eating of the Falun Gong, after the sale of their organ)
They’d be “vampires”? Xi Jinping as Chong Shee?
Sociopaths adverse to crosses?
@foxhack, there are no other chinese in china…only zombies. Remember the chinese refugee enclave where we first met the newest Genocideman member?
Here’s a question
If the Jian Shi are so incredibly infectious and the border is so porous, why haven’t they infected the rest of the world yet?
@R.S. Laurent
I see that you’re also a fan of drowtales!
I bet they have their own sitcoms…