Awesome Zombies

Guns ‘n Gardens makes the best of public access TV and societal collapse with How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse; it’s filled with DIY tips on weapons, first aid, and of course, gardening.

Say Seasons Eatings in style with your own pack of ten Left 4 Dead 2 Holiday Cards; each is drawn by Alexandria Neonakis and features the Spitter, Charger, and Jockey zombies.

28-year old indie game dev Eric Ruth’s NES Left 4 Dead is an 8-bit-style “de-make” of the franchise; it only offers 1- or 2-player but will be free for download January 4, 2010. Thanks, Boots!

A Romero version of Star Wars: Uncut, Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated is an ongoing collaborative project; artists reinvent scenes from the 1968 cult classic in their own style.

Call of Duty: Zombies for the iPhone lets gets touchy-feely with the undead; it’s limited to one map, but the multiplayer co-op is full-featured with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and online (!) support.

Shaggy, Daphne, and Freddie are absent in this Zombie Scooby-Doo t-shirt, but it’s a no-brainer why: Velma shows smarts (with shotguns, stakes, and Scooby snacks) = survival.

Zombies and vampires go mainstream with this seemingly made-for-Disney promo trailer for The Slayers; it’s inspired by kids-vs-monsters flicks like The Goonies and Monster Squad.

David King’s use of an overhead projector to shoot ZZZZOMBIES seems gimmicky at first glance, but this stop motion film is surprisingly tongue-in-brain. Warning: slightly gory.

World War Z’s Max Brooks takes a trip down undead memory lane with Recorded Attacks; it’s a graphic novel with “historical” short stories from ancient Rome to the modern West Coast.

Their first trailer was choppy in terms of frame rate, not body parts, but Fort Zombie delivers with this vastly improved trailer; it’s a budget RPG about holing up during the zombapocalypse.

Available on 10/29/09 on PSN: Zombie Tycoon is an undead remix of Rollercoaster Tycoon for the PSP where you’ll control three zombie squads as you terrorize 10 puzzle-filled cities.

Aled Lewis’ The Horde t-shirt replays a scene from Living Dead and countless other zombie flicks, but we wonder: perhaps they just want to lend a hand (or other detached limb)?

It’s never too young to prepare for a living dead apocalypse: these Zombie Mobiles by Salty and Sweet include Braaains, Six Feet Over, and even a Left 4 Dead inspired mobile.

Our friends at Chop Shop put a nail in the coffin of their Horror/Fantasy collection with this epic undeadWe tee; it packs in 50 zombies, ghosts and other boo-tiful members of the living dead.

Human Resources takes on a new meaning with Z.E.O.: A Zombie’s Guide to Getting A(Head) In Business; it’s a 254 page book for those who prefer their 9-5ers to be 6 feet under.

Twice the size of last year’s event, Zombie Apocafest 2009 was a dead-on success: it featured 17 tables with undead parade floats, creepy carousels, and zombie gobblin’ combines.

Mix old-school GTA’s top-down gameplay with hordes of zombies and enough Type-O to open your own blood bank and you’ve got Zombie Driver: the game is due out in November.

Don’t get “left for dead:” we’d prefer chainsaws and sawed-off shotguns, but this Zombie Survival Medkit t-shirt will keep you alive and fully limbed until the cavalry arrives.

First Forrest Gump, then Kill Bill, and now 28 Days Later in One Minute: U of York may have been invaded by fast zombies, but they can barely keep up with the 60 second pace.

Part OMG and part WTFBBQ, Dead Rising 2’s This Is Reality XVII trailer would make Randy Savage proud: it mashes up WWE, zombie slaying, deer antlers and hamster balls.

A favorite with zombies, slackers and cricket players, Shaun of the Dead goes Blu-ray; it includes deleted scenes, fictional TV footage, outtakes and Zomb-o-Meter, a pop-up trivia track.

Flameknight7 combines two of the world’s most terrifying things into a single mod for Left 4 Dead: Teletubbies and zombies are a true vision of hell, especially when they catch on fire.

#braainnnnnsss has always been a trending topic for Twitter Zombies, which isn’t too surprising: staying under 140 characters is pretty easy when you have a one word vocabulary.