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[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The worst part of a viral apocalypse is that it takes a fuckton of stupid, unobservant and selfish people to spread it irreparably before it's noticed. The best part is that, in the West at least, we have witnessed an adequate amount of aforementioned morons who'd do just that in our universe

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh, if zombies are very slow-motion slow, blind & death, it takes at least 10 bites to infect you, and you basically have to help them move their jaw to actually bite you - we are stil not surviving the apocalypse.

We will however have to go to work through all if it.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 14 points 7 months ago

eSsEnTiAl WoRkErS

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

"You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons."

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Strangely enough, those "simple farmers" are those who will avoid you because they need to get the work done.

Unless they happen to be on SocialMedia and the propaganda algorithm wants them to be conspiracy theorists.

[-] bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 points 7 months ago

I'm just saying the vaccine to cure zombification is more dangerous than the zombie bite! I could get autism or something!

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

After seeing how excited some folks got during COVID, that's genuinely somewhat of a worry for me. Kind of like how lonely, young men can be sold on the idea of war, because they think they'll finally be adored as a hero, you can just as well find preppers who think they'll finally be adored, because they bought toilet paper before everyone else could.

In the case of COVID, it was thankfully a disappointment for the preppers, in that the best survival strategy was staying in your cushty home. That will be the case for the vast majority of infectious diseases. But I still bet someone out there had the intrusive thought that maybe they shouldn't help reduce the spread of COVID, because you won't be deemed a hero without a real crisis...

[-] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Teddy Roosevelt wanted a war to make him into a more famous President.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 months ago

On lemmy.ml they’d be arguing that the zombie should be supported because a zombie apocalypse will destroy US imperialism.

[-] archonet@lemy.lol 12 points 7 months ago

And that any evidence of the zombie eating brains is simply Western propaganda.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Like the girl in the comic, for example. The zombie didn't eat her brain and she's clearly very smart.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

And in the US they would claim the zombie was made by China.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I'd argue the zombies are effective at eating the rich

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seems like many people genuinely long for some kind of massive cataclysm that creates a Mad Max world. Kind of reminds me of some notable WWI veteran saying something like he rather enjoyed it. The difference is that he was looking back on stuff he'd actually done, and most of the people fantasizing are wannabees who wouldn't last 5 minutes if the real thing happened.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 7 months ago

my family used to run a business that imported products from american companies specialising in things like hand loading (basically making your own ammunition). just before we got out of the business, around 15 years or so, one of the bigger actors (starts with an H, guy named steve runs it), they introduced a zombie-themed line of products, including ammunition cases, fake blood spattered bandoliers, and targets.

just... human targets. with zombie print on them. for civilian use.

to say that they just did this in order to be able shoot people without consequence might be judging too harshly... if we hadn't met steve.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Report the zombie to ICE as an illegal immigrant.

[-] Blujayooo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ahahahaha xD

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

That's genuinely the reaction when I pointed out how ridiculous it is for the military (or anyone really) to be overwhelmed by a rotting and slow-moving corpse. World War Z and I am Legend made the zombie apocalypse more believable.

[-] sip@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

You ought to play Dying Light. Freshly made zombies move fast, then slow down to a crawl. Also some mutate and come out at night to hunt.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I have the game on my backlog!

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

World War z had a good section on why conventional warfare vs zombies fails. (Headshot x volume > ammunition)

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Idea for a horror comedy movie:

A group of teenagers encounter the first zombie and put it down, but the damn thing just keeps getting back up.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Weekend against Bernie

[-] grahamja@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How about one that diverts expectations?

Like, instead of slow zombies, you get fast ones. Faster than they could run before. Maybe even faster than some vehicles. Because they don't feel pain.

And instead of dumb zombies, they are smart. They set traps, use tools. Maybe even drive cars.

Shooting the brain also does nothing. You got to shoot them in the ass since that is the way the parasite entered the body and how they communicate with the hive.

And like all the zombie preppers die-out quickly because they think the zombies will react like the ones from Hollywood. So they think they can play the hero while being outsmarted by fast zombies.

Humanity would not last long, and afterwards the world is populated entirely by a zombie civilization that looks eerily similar to our own but like better.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

World War Z - fast

Reanimator - smart

The Return of the living dead - immune to headshots, make traps

Dreamcatcher - Alien Ass Parasites

Zombieland - unlikely survivors

I don't think you're as original as you think you are, pal. Good luck on your screenplay go, sounds like a great time.

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I'll try, the billionaires figure out a serum that let's them live forever but forces them to consume human flesh which becomes, with automatisation, one of the few ways to make a living for the filthy non-billionaires who decided not to be born rich.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're just describing vampires/peter theil, except flesh now.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Fiction imitates life.

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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Probably a net benefit for the environment, too…

[-] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago
[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

But not seriously

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only motherfucker on the internet that doesn't want humanity to die off.

What's wrong with y'all?

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Zombies are people too. Technically humanity “lives” on.

Protect zombie rights to eat, donate your brain and join the hord today!

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

We love nature and hate what humanity has become. Simple

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

A super-win for biodiversity, the last hail Mary that somehow unexpectedly worked.

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

pretty bizarre to see a zombie pop out and presume kt is the first and only zombie in the world

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I dunno. It'd be nice to mix things up a bit. Find a whole new set of things to worry about.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Could just be a regular necromancy zombie.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

It would also be so much very a lot eco friendly.

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Accelerationism in a nutshell.

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