Max Brooks has my dream job

Mel's offspring has offically cornered the market on writing anything he wants about zombies and having a publishing house buy it, sell it and make them both a shit ton of money. So I guess I should really concentrate on journalism. The odds of two guys getting that career are about the same as running into a real zombie.

For those of you that are living under a zombie rock, Max Brooks wrote a great satirical piece in 2003 called The Zombie Survival Guide. It's essentially a how-to manual for the average Joe when it comes to surviving the immanent zombie apocalypse.


While the guide was a success, apparently no one listened to its advice because - as we all know- The Zombie War brought us to the brink of extinction. If it weren't for the details of the Redeker Plan and the sheer balls displayed by the United States walking corpses may have been all that was left on the planet. And of course Brooks documented this all in his after action report, World War Z.

Now, Brooks has a new work coming out October 6 called The Zombie Survival Gudie: Recorded Attacks, a graphic novel that illustrates some of the more fantastical (and fictional) zombie encounters in history as first mentioned in the original survival guide. Check out this video preview of it.

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks from Crown Books on Vimeo.

Awesomeness incarnate! Check out the official web site for the first 21 pages of the book. It details a massive outbreak in Roman controlled Britain where a Roman Legion develops the first battle doctrine that is actually effective against the walking dead.

As a side note, here's some awesome art that represents the Battle of Yonkers from World War Z. Sorry, I forgot where I found it so there's not attribution.