On The Edge of Darkness by Chris Martens
How well could a group of men confront the every growing threat, ever spreading infection, of the Zombie infestation?
Pretty damn well if you ask us here at Don’t Get Bit! Season 1 is complete and you can get it from ITunes here. The story so far is that a former bodyguard working on-board the ship of a rich family is suddenly thrown into the world of zombies when the family he’s hired to protect suddenly turns into said zombies.
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UPDATE: We have a newer version of the Field Manual available here. It is the FM3-05-70.
Don’t Get Bit has acquired the FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual.
The FM 21-76 is the finest single source for self-reliance for all extreme circumstances. A must for anyone who wants to know how to survive in primitive conditions. The book is very straightforward with many pictures and user-friendly illustrations, written in easy to understand language. This is just some of the survival information that this book provides: All-climates: arctic, tropics, temperate forest, savanna or desert. All-terrain survival tactics. The Will to Survive.
Identify poisonous snakes, as well as edible and non-edible plants. Survival Medicine. Wilderness medicine. Techniques on first aid. Survival in the hottest or coldest of climates. Survival Planning. Make polluted water potable. How to find water. Ways to trap and collection techniques of water. Covers navigation and compass use. Find direction using the sun and stars. Weapons and Tools. Recognizing signs of land when lost at sea. Building life-saving shelters. Traps and snares. How to prepare wild game to be cooked also preserving food. All types of fire making. Water Crossings. Find direction using the sun and stars. Physical and mental fitness. Disaster preparedness. Again this is just some of the survival information is this book!
To download a PDF of this book please click here or the image of the cover above.
A semi-truck full of zombies being transported cross country are headed for an in depth zombie survival school in the Rocky Mountains when it jack-knifes in the middle of rush hour traffic on a Denver Colorado freeway. Zombies spill all over the blacktop and begin doing what they do best, they start eating humans.
An adulterous, spineless, indecisive leech is sitting on that fateful freeway with his mistress trying hopelessly to decide whether or not to break up with her and stay with his wife. He sees the beginning of what could be the end of humanity. What follows is his story. A story of survival or a story of the last day of his life?
The Walking Dead: Days Gone By Volume 1
Ok… I know. I’m way behind the times on this one, but I’m getting back on the Graphic Novel train starting today. So that’s got to make up for something! I walked into Samurai Comics in Glendale Arizona this afternoon, went to the desk and asked the handsome comic-clerk for some help. I wanted a good Zombie comic to review and he pointed me, with no hesitation to, The Walking Dead: Days Gone By Volume 1. Which as we’ve mentioned here that AMC is doing the TV version starting Oct. 31st. Now that the bills are paid, here’s the review of Volume 1…
In his new book “Real Zombies, the Living Dead and Creatures of the Apocalypse” author Brad Steiger explores Haitian Voodoo and the origins of many zombie myths.
So instilled are these beliefs in zombies, or “Nzambi” as Haitians refer to them, that it’s illegal in the country to raise people from the dead! But here’s the secret formula that he says can RAISE THE DEAD SO LAWS BE DAMNED… WE WANT THE ZA!
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The University of Baltimore is offering a class this semester on the all things Zombie related.
The course, taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, “Zombiemania,” and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.
Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. As an alternative to a final research paper they may write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.
The university isn’t the first to have a class on the undead. Columbia College in Chicago has offered a course on Zombies in popular media for years, and at Simpson College in Iowa students spent the spring semester writing a book on “The History of the Great Zombie War.”
One of The Survival Team’s favorite books of all-time and the best “Book-On-Tape” we’ve ever listened to “World War Z” by Max Brooks is going into full on production starring Brad Pitt. Max Brooks MTV News that “Quantum of Solace” director Marc Forster will direct “World War Z” which is scheduled to release in 2012.
Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, picked up the rights to “World War Z” in 2007, edging out Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. Which is fine because all of us here at “Don’t Get Bit” think DiCaprio is a lefty douche.
All I have to say is that they better not f-up this movie. We all like Brad here and with such movies as “12 Monkeys”, “Seven” and “Fight Club” under his belt we are hopeful that they will stay true to the book and it’s companion piece “The Zombie Survival Guide”.
Links to these books and many others can be found on our Zombie Literature page… but you don’t have to take our word for it!
Here at “Don’t Get Bit” we strive to educate not to just destroy, maim and decapitate. So in today’s “Moment of Clarity” I present to you a selection of Zombie Haiku from Zombie Rama…
I felt your lips, teeth
brush against my shoulderblade,
but it was not love.
Zombie Bruce Springsteen
was not “Born to Run”; no, he
was born to eat brains.
Autumn’s bold decay
cannot stop the oncoming
waves of undead flesh.
Just a little bite,
my single-minded purpose
brains, brains, brains, brains, brains.
Zombies are no fun,
When you see one you must run,
Or shoot with your gun.
I think not, but apparently some dorky, desk humping, pencil pushing nerds got out their calculators (they better learn to us an abacus for when the Zombie Apocalypse does actually happen) and decided they were going to see what would happen for the big ZA. Below is the article and here’s the link to it. There is a glaring error in it.. there is NO cure for the Zombie Apocalypse… We are the cure. But the emphasis added below is the only thing “The Team” saw when I showed this to them at this morning’s briefing. You can buy the book it’s featured in here. Here’s some snippets but go over to the full article and give it a read…
Civilization would most likely be finished in the event of a zombie outbreak, claim Canadian mathematicians who have calculated the possible devastation caused by an attack by the fictional monsters.
In their study, titled When Zombies Attack!, the researchers picked “classic” slow-moving zombies such as those in Dawn of the Dead as models and divided humanity into three: the living, zombies and the “removed” – zombies who had been killed by decapitation.
They concluded there was no point trying to cure those infected or live with them – the best thing was to destroy them as quickly as possible.
“As seen in the movies, it is imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble. Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be mustered in time,” they concluded.
How fast do we need to deal with the outbreak? Here’s the equation they used, where S = susceptibles, Z = zombies and R = removed. If an infection breaks out in a city of 500,000 people, the zombies will outnumber the susceptibles in about three days.
