The Thing About Zombies

I love Zombies and stories about zombies. I never miss an episode of The Walking Dead and always go to the movies when there's a new flick about these animated dead. The reason is that they do not scare me the way a story about a Poltergeist or an exorcism does. Zombies can be killed with pretty much anything that you can get a hold of and swing around. Zombies don't scare me, but they do provoke a deep sense of pity which is why I find them so fascinating. I once went to a comic convention where I got to listen to Alan Moore, one of the original artists of The Walking Dead comic books. He said that one of the keys to drawing scary zombies is not how rotten they look, but how human they are behind their rotten flesh. Whenever he drew a zombie, he thought about who that zombie was when it was human. The traces left of their humanity are what makes them uncanny. The zombies in "Danger Word" were the most fascinating because they retained something as human as memory. They had a notion of who they were before converting.