Saturday
Jan172009
A few new finds
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 1:55PM
Was searching Digg for "apocalyptic" story submissions, and found a few cool ones.
Night Zero looks to be an online post-apocalyptic zombie comic serial, but it's done with photos rather than drawings. I read one of the short vignettes, which was pretty cool, but didn't start the actual main story yet because I went ahead and pre-ordered the printed version of the first episode. I figure $14 is worth it for 94 pages of full-color post-apocalyptic zombie goodness, and it makes it more likely they'll continue the story. I think they're planning six episodes total, so I'll have to see after reading the first one if it's worth $84 for the whole set, or if I'll just read them online.
WastelandExplorer.com reminded me that there are places in the world that can give you a pretty good idea of what it would look like in the post-apocalypse. One of which, Hashima Island off Japan, I'd never heard of before. It's a man-made island that once housed 5000 people when there was coal mining going on there. But when the coal ran out in the 70's, the island was abandoned, and the city left to decay. A Japanese photographer was granted access to the island and put up a really cool gallery of photos of the place. Someone really needs to film a movie there.
For another example of what a thriving city center would look like decades after abandonment, you can't forget about the Ukranian city of Pripyat, that was evacuated after the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down in the 80s. A photographer recently toured the area and wrote and extensive account of his visit. The pictures are cool.
A post on IO9 reminded me that I want to read Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America. It's getting really good reviews on Amazon and is supposed to be pretty funny too. Not your average tone for a post-economic-collapse dystopian society story.
SurvivetheOutbreak.com also looks super cool. It's a choose-your-own-adventure story, but told in video clips. The first few I viewed were each about a minute long, and at the end of each one you have a choice to make. I haven't progressed down a path to where I got eaten by zombies yet, but if you do, you just have to back up a bit and choose a different path. Production value looks pretty good too.
Finally, if you're into zombies, you might want to check out the Midnight Podcast, the self-described authority on all things zombie. Looks pretty interesting.
Night Zero looks to be an online post-apocalyptic zombie comic serial, but it's done with photos rather than drawings. I read one of the short vignettes, which was pretty cool, but didn't start the actual main story yet because I went ahead and pre-ordered the printed version of the first episode. I figure $14 is worth it for 94 pages of full-color post-apocalyptic zombie goodness, and it makes it more likely they'll continue the story. I think they're planning six episodes total, so I'll have to see after reading the first one if it's worth $84 for the whole set, or if I'll just read them online.
WastelandExplorer.com reminded me that there are places in the world that can give you a pretty good idea of what it would look like in the post-apocalypse. One of which, Hashima Island off Japan, I'd never heard of before. It's a man-made island that once housed 5000 people when there was coal mining going on there. But when the coal ran out in the 70's, the island was abandoned, and the city left to decay. A Japanese photographer was granted access to the island and put up a really cool gallery of photos of the place. Someone really needs to film a movie there.
For another example of what a thriving city center would look like decades after abandonment, you can't forget about the Ukranian city of Pripyat, that was evacuated after the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down in the 80s. A photographer recently toured the area and wrote and extensive account of his visit. The pictures are cool.
A post on IO9 reminded me that I want to read Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America. It's getting really good reviews on Amazon and is supposed to be pretty funny too. Not your average tone for a post-economic-collapse dystopian society story.
SurvivetheOutbreak.com also looks super cool. It's a choose-your-own-adventure story, but told in video clips. The first few I viewed were each about a minute long, and at the end of each one you have a choice to make. I haven't progressed down a path to where I got eaten by zombies yet, but if you do, you just have to back up a bit and choose a different path. Production value looks pretty good too.
Finally, if you're into zombies, you might want to check out the Midnight Podcast, the self-described authority on all things zombie. Looks pretty interesting.
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