SPLICED MAGAZINE / ED'S NOTE / ZOMBIFICATION
ISSUE 06
Zombification
“I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters.
The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them.” – Max Brooks
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LETTERS
We'd love to hear from
you, so if you have any
comments, ideas or
criticisms drop us a mail at
ed@splicedmagazine.
com and
we'll feature them in
forthcoming issues of
Spliced. Who knows, the
best letter might even win
a prize. Nudge, nudge.
Wink wink, say no more,
say no more.
ou might have noticed the
proliferation of zombies in this
issue. Not that it’s obvious or
anything. We decided to produce an all
zombie issue pretty much just for the
hell of it, and any of our writers that
didn’t know much about zombies had
to go out and do their research. To be
fair that was only one of them I think,
and he still managed to do a pretty
bang up job!
Yup, zombies. The walking dead.
Traditionally we know them as slow,
shuffling creatures that groan and move
toward their victims inexorably, ultimately
overwhelming them by sheer numbers, not
because they’re particularly smart or fast.
How could they be of course, with all that
damaged and rotting tissue. A lot of that
has changed in pop culture in recent years
however, with games like Left 4 Dead
giving rise to fast, much scarier zombies
than we’ve come to expect from B-Grade
horror films. Zombies are no longer just
confined to these overly cheesy (but
awesome) films however, they’ve evolved
into an entity with a life of their own.
Awesome pop culture zombies, zombie
related opinion pieces, zombie related
music reviews – pretty much everything
we could tie in to this phenomenon,
we did. Even down to our pin-up cover
feature.
Although we have a huge amount of
varied content, honestly some things
were cut simply because they were either
too gross or too difficult (or both) for
us to produce. Like our food feature for
example. We considered a variety of brain
recipes (apparently my grandmother
used to make crumbed lamb brains for
my grandfather – barf!), but all of us were
simply too grossed out to make this a
reality. As an alternative we considered
something that instead looked like brains,
but was in fact just brain shaped risotto,
but honestly that was a disaster. So instead
we scrapped the food feature altogether.
In case you’re wondering.
Never fear however, you’ll still find a
multitude of zombie related content, and
if zombies aren’t your cup of tea, we still
have a couple of standard features for
your perusal, as well as a pretty awesome
Destiny competition which trust me, you
want to enter!
You’ll notice that the structure of our
magazine is also a little different this
month, as a result of some serious research
we’ve been doing over the past few issues.
We’re attempting to make your experience
not only more enjoyable and relevant, but
also more manageable for the team as a
whole, so if it takes us an issue or so to
work out the kinks, please bear with us,
we’re doing our best to find a formula that
works well for us and for you!
In conclusion, in the words of Shaun of
the Dead, “You’ve got red on you.”
- Pippa Tshabalala
{ Editor }
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