The Corpse Was Already Rotting, Bury It Already

Zombies.
Yes, Zombies.

Look, I love them as much as the next nerd, and yes, there are still some interesting things that can be done with them (a post apocalyptic set webcomic centered on SurvivorPunk Velma and Feral Scooby kicking rotting ass would be awesome), but honestly, are we really going to beat it to death and beyond?

Lets see... we've had, in the last five years:
Zombieland
Land of the Dead
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Day of the Dead
Resident Evil: Extinction
Planet Terror
Doom

and that's just relatively big name movies. If I expand to all movies that have zombie as a keyword on IMDB from the last five years there are 659 movies (ok, including things scheduled for as far from now as 2013). If we add in tv, books, video games....

Jesus Fuck.

Now, like I said, I love zombies. Something about a faceless horde whose collective brains I am free to bash in and destroy with high powered weapons... And really it's not played out just yet. I think the concept is actually, strangely, relatively strong, in that we haven't completely overdone it yet. (How long did it take for vampires to get played out? Or maybe that was just Twilight's doing...) But let's quit while we're ahead, eh? Move onto a new favourite material, and let this one go gracefully, maybe it can be revisited without eyerolls sooner that way, eh?

Just a couple cents. It's time to put the zombies to bed, before they fall completely apart.